In the sleepy college town of Davis, California where I grew up, there were Iranians who were religious […]
Category Archive: Musings
This poem was originally published in Entropy.
/man·trap/ noun
a room or area used for access control, containing a series of doors that cannot be open at the same time to prevent unauthorized entry as permissioned individuals enter or exit
From inside,
I see them at a distance
through layers of black fence
Photos of protests seen around the world and in the States help Muslims here and overseas know that the American people are not monolithically interested in bombing and then…
I snapped this photo as I was leaving Sunday’s March from the White House to the Capitol Building. As the daylight hours, and with them the time for afternoon prayers, waned, this sister stole a quiet spot for some alone time with God. I won’t pretend to know what she prayed for, but these days I find myself reflecting a great deal on the future of our country and praying for the United States, for my friends and their families, for the future of those Americans I don’t know but hope to get to know…
Friends, in just under a month, I’m hosting a benefit for the Caltech Y, a service organization that […]
Many years ago, I went to Farsi Saturday school with Zahra Noorbakhsh, the author of this column about […]
The Flight Deal is my one of my favorite sources for inexpensive airfares (some memorable deals from the […]
It was a very cold and windy day, so I didn’t get as many photos as I would […]
“So many patterns reveal themselves.”
Ariege
In one of the smallest and poorest department of France, there are Cathar castles on rocky cliffs, mountain […]