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Yesterday in our soon to be house we did namaz for the first time. The house was still very rough around the edges and there was constructio...

Iftar today was Madeleine cookies, a kind Yusuf and Nooriya love. Yusuf is a big kid now and he does namaz with the other kids now which is ...

I get a lot of time to think during Ramadan. There's so much peaceful time just sitting.  Just sit more often Taher. I've been think...

My involvement with the Casualty Actuarial Society recently started.  I'm on a council tasked with changing the professions culture to ...

The Hubble telescope just celebrated its 25th anniversary. It's being hailed as the greatest scientific achievement. I've been readi...

Just this week Yusuf started texting.  I'm happy to be on his shortlist of contacts:P I don't often get to check my messages duri...

Last week the site of my eventual home was cleared.  There used to be a house there and now it's gone.  Construction has started and no...

I'm "going through" something that's out of my control.  I'm in my head and I'm pretty sure I'm the only pers...

I am reminded today that there's lots of distractions and other stuff in life.  The most important things to me are connections with pe...

This is one of my favorite songs.  I've heard the lyrics so many times I don't think about them as much as I used to.  I read this ...

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.  ...