Felice Capodanno! Happy New Year! You’ve made it through the clear vision halls of 2020, through the awaited corridors of 2021, and depending on where you live… into the year 2022. I almost typed 3022, and to be honest, that doesn’t seem that far away anymore. We are definitely living in the future, as we…
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Sophia Who? An interview with Tes Silverman
Sometime around this past February, after the publication of Sofi’s Short Stories, I was approached about being interviewed for a phenomenal podcast, r(E)volutionary Woman. That episode aired today! Tes Silverman is the artist behind the scenes and founder of r(E)volutionary Woman. She interviews women from around the world to ask them about the amazing things…
Let’s Grow Old Together
Have you ever looked at someone romantically, and thought ‘I’d grow old with this person’ ? You might even be with such a person now. Well, the details of getting older sure are different than what I had in mind in my teens, and early 20s. I saw it as something…cute. Growing old together looked…
Outcasts, Refugees, & Giving Thanks
I just came across this again. It must be time to post it. Some events are no longer current, but the point is still the same. On November 26, 2015, here in the USA there was a celebration. It is called Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is celebrated by many Americans as a day when the ‘Injuns and…
The 2016 Food Post: The Tanzania Experience PART II: Arusha
Part I of this list was all about Dar es Salaam. We ate more foods than I mentioned, but hey, you may just have to go try all of them yourself. If you’d like to go, let me know! AICC Nyama Choma I am not sure what this place is called, but I know…
The 2016 Food Post: The Tanzania Experience PART I: Dar es Salaam
You may have already read the I Love Food posts, but what is life if not eating, talking while eating (chew with your mouth closed, though, please 🙂 ), and talking about food? There is nothing quite like the discovery of a new food or spice, or like the rediscovery of the same thing. Some…
Reunited in Tanzania
This past June, I packed my husband and two younger kids and shipped us all off to Tanzania. I’m joking. They actually had a choice to come. Well, my husband did (smile). Tanzania is my birth country and although I have lived elsewhere, I still call it my home. The last time I was there was…
Female Genital Mutilation
Did you know that female genital mutilation (FGM) is reported to have been practiced in the US as recently as 2010? The United States of America is many things, good and bad, but I held the belief that the majority of the people who want to live in the US of A, are people who…
Girls Empowerment. A Post by Sally Qazi
Girls Empowerment. An extremely important guest post by Bibi Sally, also known as Saleha Qazi: An educator at heart, and a lover of humanity.
Ma’Hood: A Mother’s Story of Maternal Care
For the next two weeks a little organization named CleanBirth.org is making a huge difference in the lives of many people. In fact, it isn’t only now that it’s doing so. CleanBirth.org raises funds throughout the year to ensure that many pregnant women in Laos can have safe births through the use of clean-birth kits and properly…
I Love the Whole Pound of You
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is one of those places that are completely surreal to me. My son had to be in ICU for six days, and it was the first time I had been in this angel-filled part of a hospital. I saw signs showing how long a little…tiny little baby had been in…
When Mister Shankar Plays His Sitar; and Other Stories About How Kuna Matata and No Woman Cave.
You know, I really want this post to be coherent, exact, …and I want it to flow like water. Though, I suppose it is flowing like water because after all… Bruce Lee said you put water in any thing, IT becomes that thing “You put water in the pot, it becomes the pot” BL. I…
Think Say Be 