Lauren and I met about eight years ago when I was living in California. She was my next-door neighbour and I remember having to introduce myself one sunny day in March because my son Zayd had kicked a ball over the fence into her yard so I went over to politely ask if she could...
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Monthly Archives: January 2009“An apple a day keeps the doctor away!” Is this really true? What we eat and drink and what we don’t can definitely make a difference to our health. Eating well is one of the best ways we can take care of ourselves- and those who depend on us. As women we all have special... Many expressions people use in everyday life simply roll off the tongue, travel through the ears and are not considered profound enough to deserve a second thought. But one has started to resonate with me in a way I didn’t know was possible for words so commonplace: They grow up so fast! Every time I... When I was in high school, I knew a girl named Reem Dah. She was a kind, sweet, smiling type of person. One morning when I rode the bus, my friend and bus mate, Rana, told me the shocking news. A bus driver had lost control of his bus yesterday and rammed into Reem’s family... Do you find yourself buried beneath mounds of laundry as you try to separate darks from whites? Well, this became a weekly event for me, as the laundry piled up until the weekends. I was forced to wash everything together, struggling to reach the end of my task. Needless to say, the whites were no... |