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Birthdays? Meh.
I live in America, and Americans celebrate birthdays. There is often mega hoopla, as I like to say. And in my experience it is hardly ever questioned. But I know quite a few people who do not know...
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The Awesome, the Happy, and the Good.
“Cancer informed, but could not dictate, the last five years of Mom’s life. Once, when a nurse suggested that she cultivate an appreciation for life’s singular moments, Mom was flooded with joy, for...
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Carrying On!
The other night I got a call from a nice woman in my Ummah who wanted to know if I would like to learn how to make congee ( a rice gruel) for iftar at the Masjid. During Ramadan our Masjid serves...
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The Business of Love (NO! Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter!)
All this talk about love (here and here) on The Rock Pool has started me thinking. About love. Or should I say “Wuv, twu wuv.” Anyway, I think people each experience love in different ways, and...
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Life. In Song.
Seems like folks turn into things That they’d never want The only thing to live for Is today I’m gonna put a hole in my TV set I don’t wanna grow up Open up the medicine chest And I don’t wanna grow...
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Kindlelizing
So I got a Kindle. Me. The book girl. I’ve wanted to actually marry certain books. There have been times in life where I felt that if I never saw another person again I’d be alright as long as I had...
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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen
Dear Jane Austen, First of all, allow me to wish you a happy birthday, your 235th, to be precise. Your place in my literary world looms large. I read Pride and Prejudice before I could appreciate much...
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A Wodehouse Restorative
telegraph.co.uk Well. At least that’s over. Yeah, I’m a humbug. I freely admit to feeling insufferably meh about this entire season, starting from the first signs of it (getting earlier and...
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This January
In this cold (so cold) dark, snowy, gray and cheerless January, I’m thinking rather than doing. I’m thinking about the colors pale aqua, white, pale pink and crimson. Huskies. I’m not an animal...
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Storage
Throughout all the silent screaming this child makes me repress, probably putting great stress on my internal organs, I have to remember her toddling up to me, Mr. Potato Head in arms and piping:...
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