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I've been reading about the criminology  Broken Windows Theory and it's made me appreciate a perspective I've tried to stay aw...

Zahra has written about our morning routine a couple times.  It's had me thinking more and more about my routine... I have read about...

This past two weeks have not been the nice and comfortable routine I've come to love.  The kids are off from school, I'm home with ...

I was drawing with Nooriya.  Mostly I was sitting with her and just spending time with her while trying to block out the rest of the world....

I've heard this story many many times over the years. It's pretty simple and I've absorbed the message a little bit more every t...

I had a very close call this morning. A possibly life ending moment. It's a couple hours later and my heart is still racing.  The detail...

I've been reading up about positive illusions after hearing about it.  It basically means having a really good attitude about somethin...

I recently heard about a kids book called 'The Giving Tree'.  This is the Wikipidea entry . Wiki describes the plot --- The bo...

Today I had an especially busy morning and I let myself get caught up in the busyness.  I rushed from here to there and back many times bot...

The other day Yusuf asked me why there aren't 25 hours in a day.  I explained some stuff about the sun rising and the earth spinning.  ...

Work offers a meditation class.  It's more of a close-your-eyes-and-relax class.  I was going for a few months and then I took the summ...

Every Ramadan without fail several people say to me some variation of, 'Fasting is so hard.  I could never...aren't you hungry?...

I've trained myself to think in economic terms about many things.  At work, I almost reflexively think about things in terms of their u...

I heard a physicist talk about the universe expanding.  It was a pretty cool and a little bit geeky, but still accessible to me.  It was fa...

This was one of the first things I wrote ten years ago.  This memory is still vivid.  I still remember how I felt when I wrote this.  I had...

Zahra has been gone this week and it's been me and the kids for six days so far. I'm a little exhausted, but in the most fulfilling ...

I am looking around at my house which is mostly packed up at this point. We are almost all ready to move in a couple weeks. I'm taking a...

Over pancakes this morning Yusuf suggested putting whip cream all over the floor and then going sledding.  And I didn't answer, but he a...

I just finished driving up route 1 with the family and it was BEAUTIFUL.  Every few minutes there seemed to be a vista to stop and take in ...

I picked up a random book from the bookshelf.  After reading a few pages that seemed oddly familiar I realized that I had read this back in...