Getting Your Work Published: What I learned. Part 3 of 3
Improving Your Work
Read moreWhat My Father Saw - #BlackHistoryMonth
I don’t remember how old I was when I read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but I do remember how I felt. A young girl, growing up in Pakistan, I remember asking Daddy
Read moreWorld Hijab Day - What about Me?
"Daadi, can you read me a story," my three-year old granddaughter handed me a picture book she brought from her pre-school library. I looked at the title. 'Ramadan'. Feeling pleased with her choice,
Read moreA COLD SHOWER
“The water in the shower is not hot enough,” my husband said as he stepped out of the bathroom.
Disappointed?
I had just doused my hair with oil,
My Downton Abbey in Pakistan
Mummy & Daddy in the 1950s
My parents were not rich, but we did have a Carson and a Mrs. Patmore. In Pakistan, domestic help was the norm—still is. And I am talking middle-class. Aurangzeb—our Carson equivalent—was the valet,
Read moreA Church Holds Quran Recital
Only in America! T'was the Sunday before Christmas, when Rev. K. Karpin asked if I could read from the chapter of Mary in the Quran, at the Celebration of Worship
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