l'atitude

Nooriya starts madrasa today. Another milestone. She is so excited and I am excited for her. I am also sad that my baby is already 4! 

Our morning routine is constantly evolving as the kids get older and able to do more things independently.  I was thinking about that this m...

"A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book."  The ISFM series welcomes it...

Since the first ISFM book came out, I have been asked to do speaking events around the country. Usually at universities but sometimes other ...

This week Yusuf has had a lot of cool moments. He got a trophy in taekwondo for Most Dedicated Student, he graduated from Minnow to Turtle 1...

"Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in."   (from "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore")

Nooriya, wiping her nose with a wipe: "I need wipes to get my body all strong and clean so I can have much less energy!" Me: ...

In three months, Yusuf behind KG. I can't fathom that he will be away from 8:45am until 3:20pm every day. It's so strange. And he is...

We went to a Leonard Cohen concert last night. Taher came home and surprised me - he basically told me we had a sitter and we would be leavi...

Been doing a lot of reading about the chemicals in our daily body and household products, decided to purge the toxic chemicals throughout th...

"The owners of the book were born and died; what remained was the physical book itself. It needed to be handled with increasing delicac...

Time! stop passing so quickly! Nooriya tells me everyday that I'm her best friend. Yusuf cuddles me everyday and tells me he will hug m...

We are coming off a two-week holiday season in which we got to hang out with our extended families and good friends, and it was so fun and h...

Hi everyone, I returned yesterday from my State Dept trip to Thailand and Cambodia. Over the course of 12 days, I spoke to varied audien...

I know it's been a while since I posted, but I decided to come out of hiding to announce that my 2nd book, "All-American: 45 Americ...

lately i have been working on my 2nd book, doing PR for my 1st book, and figuring out the legal and contractual stuff to establish I Speak f...

the last several weeks/months have been a blast for me. i have seen what was, five years ago, just an idea become an actual book. that i c...

my book just arrived in the mail. i am actually holding it, and finally it seems real. yayyyy! i want to go to the bookstore and see it on ...

I have been writing articles and marketing materials and mini-features and emails about why we thought this book was necessary in the curren...

i haven't blogged in a while. i need to do it more often, so here goes! every now and then i suddenly realize that my tiny children wi...