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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Game of inches

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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...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Routine

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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...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Fresh start

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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 ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Let me fix that for you

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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....
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Tortoise and the hare

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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...
Saturday, November 01, 2014

Close call

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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...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Awesomeness Factor

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I've been reading up about positive illusions after hearing about it.  It basically means having a really good attitude about somethin...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Giving Tree

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I recently heard about a kids book called 'The Giving Tree'.  This is the Wikipidea entry . Wiki describes the plot --- The bo...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Hurry up and slow down

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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...
Friday, September 19, 2014

One more hour

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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.  ...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Meditation class

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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...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

1435

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Every Ramadan without fail several people say to me some variation of, 'Fasting is so hard.  I could never...aren't you hungry?...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Acceptable Costs

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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...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

starless sky

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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...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

throw up memory

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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...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

What are we going to do today?

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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 ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

One percenter

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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...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Teaching goes both ways

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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...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Waiting for the memories

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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 ...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Random hug

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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...
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