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This weekend while celebrating Maryam's first birthday was the first time that my entire family has been in the same place at the same t...

I was playing risk, the game of "world domination" recently and went home with it on my mind. I worked out the probabilities of ou...

“Welcome to the world”. Rebirth. I feel like the potential is there all the time. A friend of mine wrote in his blog, “the end is near”, a...

Viet-nam, that is. This place just reeks of war. It's in the air and you can just smell it, it is so ripe. Some of it has even beco...

Two hours at the Chalermkrung Theatre, another Bangkok night. The theatre in a way was so much like what you would expect, but Bangkok in a...

I was just out walking on the campus near dusk when from out behind a wall a teacher's kid shoots out on a bicycle. This little girl wi...

I spent the better part of 15 hours trying to make relief packages for some of the people that have felt the devastation. Only the most bas...

Saturday morning i walked into class to find a bird in the classroom, ordinarily nothing even to bat an eye at, ordinary. This was a baby, ...

Every day is full of things that are Extra-ordinary, as I see them anyway. Tonight I’m just thinking about the past few days and all the cra...

This is something that still baffles me. Being a student, I can’t say that I had very much of this. Being a teacher, I see now why this ca...

Totally? Partially? Not at all? Shaped by all the things around us. Probably. Sometimes it can just be overwhelming. Listening to ot...

Every day I see about 120 children whose name faces I know, whose names I know, and personalities I know. I hadn't realized how attatche...

God Dammit people! Get off your ass and do something about it. If there's something wrong, and you know it DO SOMETHING. I'm so s...

Assumption makes an ass out of u and me. I’ve heard that lame joke so many times. It rings truer today. I on the other side of the teachi...

I’m still thinking about complaining, more specifically what is everyone complaining about. A big one is not having enough time. For once,...

I don't understand why so many people spend all their time (or what seems like) complaining. Even if there's nothing current to com...

Jamaat- the simple translation would be community. Chicago is my home, and I like to think I’ll always be a part of the Chicago jamaat. ...

When I started writing this, it was for myself. Though over three months, a few people, to my surprise, have told me they read my blog. R...

We were out last night and found there to be a huge flood about 1 kilometer from were we live. This was interesting because it hadn’t raine...

Here's something that i dug up from a paper i had written after coming back from egypt. One of the first few weekends I was there a n...