Personal Reflection

This is just a reflection a wrote for 2008  Read More »

Hello All !  Read More »

“Homesick”  Read More »

I am not even saying this lightly.  Read More »

House of the Spirits was the inspiration, the muse that led me and I,
I was the follower being led through timeless truths.
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I am the unique blend of two cultures, different worlds

I am the land of my birth, where I first lived and loved,

and witnessed the pain and sorrow of life's unfair ways.  Read More »

That is what has been on replay on my music player...the song is by a Pakistani band called Strings

I come back to this song over and over because...I keep replaying the events of my grandmother's death.

I am no longer in denial.  Read More »

This past July, my best friend came home from an eight-month stint in Iraq, training new recruits for the country's security force. He was able to see his family for about ten days before being shipped off again to finish out his tour. And there isn't a day that goes by without my anxiety level jumping when I hear about another car bomb being detonated in a public place.  Read More »

Hello from (mostly) sunny California, and thank you, the reader, for helping me to take this plunge into the shark-infested waters of the cultural/political/ (add applicable adjective here) blogosphere.  Read More »