Year: 2019
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Midnight Picnic
My son taught me something about communication today. Rauf refused to go bed. I gave him everything I could think off without overstepping the boundaries. Nothing worked. It didn’t make sense because he didn’t nap the whole day. He was yawning and moody and everything seemed to have checked all the boxes for being ‘sleepy’.…
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The Beautiful Mess
Charles Darwin once said that’ “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man”. But, Darwin also once wrote “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything” Darwin must have had a bad day. That was when I realized he and I had something in…
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Of Bitter & Budget
Not long ago someone I knew called me a cheapskate and mocked how much I ‘wanted to save 5 dollars’ for suggesting to play Secret Santa during Christmas. The truth is, playing secret santa was a way I could still show someone I still care even though I barely had the money. But what started…
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The People Project: Fatma Al Baiti
Fatma. Yemen. Foodie. Friend. Passion. The heart and mind behind ‘Meet Me at Fatma’s’, London’s first Yemeni pop-up brunch’ I first met Fatma when many years ago during our Global Village program in Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. It’s been so long, but If I could have one word to describe my fondest memory of Fatma during the…
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THE ROCKSTAR
Rauf is 2! After bouncing off ideas on how to have his birthday party this year, we decided to cancel it and have makan makan with our families instead. As much as I was tempted to have a petting zoo and a pool party and people dressed up as Big Bird and Elmo and a…
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