It’s hard when you have so many choices. Be it choosing from an assortment of teas, hand lotion and cheese, a list of books-to-read, or shopping for a pink blouse. Same dilemma with Daddy; and more so because my admiration continued to shift as the earth made its rotations around the sun.
Read moreFlight of Freedom
On July 4 we celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. A few weeks later, on August 14, Pakistan will celebrate its independence. That 171 years separate the two events is inconsequential when you consider the similarities. How about this one!
Read moreHAJJ: Abrahamic Expression of Islamic Faith
A massive movement of humanity is taking place this week. Not migrants seeking refuge from oppression, but two million Muslims seeking spiritual refuge at the House of God. . . .
Read moreAbove and Beyond....
We were in Peru last week doing the Machu Picchu thing….all was going just as we wanted until I noticed my missing item…
Read moreHiroshima: What Have We Done! (Part 1)
As President Biden visits Hiroshima, I share my travelogue penned in August 2004.
What have we done! city annihilated, leveled in minutes, children vaporized
Hiroshima: The Museum Speaks (Part 2)
For 6 years, complete censorship was imposed in Japan. No one was allowed to write about the bomb. No one was allowed to tell the awful story. No one was allowed to say it the way they saw it.
Read moreHiroshima: What I Believed Then; What I Know Now (Part 3)
The clocks stopped at 8:15 a.m.
I had seen the history of Hiroshima through the eyes of the British, through the eyes of historians, and now I was seeing it for myself.
Read moreHiroshima: Objectives Attained (Part 4)
Dome of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall
People were snuffed out in minutes
Read moreHiroshima: The Healing Begins (Part 5)
….where it was said that nothing will grow for 75 years, new buds sprouted, and in the green that came to back to life among the charred ruins, people recovered their living hopes and courage.
Read moreWhere Are the Jews?
Some stories are just too sweet to pass over. I was at the Islamic Center of New York University for an iftar, preceded by a sermon.
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