I was sitting at my desk, talking to a friend on the phone. I put the call on speaker phone and had laid down my cellphone to be...

As I contemplate the past twelve months, they seem like a pack of sardines: the growth, events, and tumultuous changes of four years...

I finally get it. I'm late to the party once again, but I've finally arrived. There was an entire hemisphere of our emotional world that...

Many excerpts from Kay Redfield Jamison’s beautifully-written memoir “An Unquiet Mind” spoke to my innermost being, but the most...

More often than I would like to admit, I have questioned the meaning of life and, every time, when I arrive at an answer, I naively...

I delivered this speech in early 2019 as my icebreaker speech for Toastmasters and I find it fitting to share it now: … [Singing]: When...

I remember the moment I gave up all hope. It was in early November, 2020. A month earlier, a perfect storm hit my life and I had been...

After nearly a month of travel (escape/running away/call it as you will), I am finally home again. I am finally back to stability. I know...

T'was grace that brought us safe thus far And grace will lead us home Amazing grace, how sweet the sound I am sitting at my usual spot on...

“There’s a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat...

Imagine sitting in a friend’s living room, reuniting with a group of fifteen friends after a year’s distance. Think of the many different...

I am having brunch with my girlfriends who have become family, and as I take my first bite of pancake, my gut clenches. Again. I woke up...

Thoughts of gratitude pass through my mind and give me moments of serenity, so I would like to share some of them with you: I am grateful...

As I sit down on my sofa waiting for the Maghrib athan (sunset call for prayer) to break my fast, I internalize the value of fasting as a...

In my cave*, I find a snug, cozy atmosphere that I have personalized over the years. When I first carved it, it was bare rocks and...

I am starting off this month with a little bit of relief as I acknowledge that I am in a better place than I was in May. The month of May...

When I mentioned that I was the odd one out, I was not exaggerating. I listen to Beethoven, marvel at the texture of a large stone on the...

The weather has been beautiful these past couple of weeks: bright sun; blue sky; green, lush trees; and blossoming flowers. Squirrels and...

Friends, I am overwhelmed with awe and gratitude for the kindness you showed me last week when I shared my first post. In no way did I...

Well, I became a writer. I am not the best writer I’ve known. I have two sisters who capture ideas oh-so eloquently that reading them...