Because I was sick. I cooked spinach and beef korma, and chicken pilao. I cleaned up the house (as best I could) and invited my daughters over too. Just finished washing up the big pot and putting it back in the pantry, and I’m bone tired. But it was lovely. We spent the afternoon together. [...]

I’m starting to prepare for the pilgrimage to Mecca this year. I’ve made my intention to go in November and join the over two million pilgrims from all over the world to perform the sacred rites that Abraham and his wife Hagar first inspired. It’s based on the Quranic and Biblical story of the sacrifice, [...]

Just finished reading it, even though my head’s all plugged up and my eyes are watering. First of all, the good stuff: it’s kind of well written. A bit wooden, but not bad. I thought some of the imagery, her wanting to fly away like the bird Abdo was a bit nice. There seem to [...]

Got two chapters revised today when I thought I’d only, at most, get one. But somehow, after I finished putting this chapter into the eyes of the other character, I still had some stamina left, and I got started in on the next. It wasn’t that hard. Just really changing tenses, first person present into third [...]

One thing I can’t seem to comprehend is why people suddenly jump on the bandwagon to help one country and not another. On the one  hand you have Gaza which is slowly being strangled to death because they had the chutzpah to elect people we didn’t approve of, nobody makes a peep out of that, [...]