Delish PicksThere are two chairs I don’t like to occupy; Dentists and Hair dressers. They both manage to make me super self-conscious. With Hair dressers my hair is never good enough, it’s either too dry, or it’s too oily, it is too long or too short, I either condition it too much or I don’t do [...]
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Me: I am going to buy 2 bars of chocolate, one for you and one for me and peanut to share. Little 7aki: Can I have a piece from yours when I finish mine? Me: But you have a whole bar for yourself! Why would you want to share your sisters? Little 7aki: Because I [...]
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Moderate Muslim Women in the Muslim Society have it hard. Last Eid got me thinking about the state of Moderate Muslim families / non practicing Muslims particularly women. We have an Arab mosque close to our house. We drove by it on our way to the traditional Eid lunch with the family. In the mosque [...]
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“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully [...]
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I watched the movie “The golden compass” when it first came out, although I haven’t had read the book at the time, and was very disappointed in it. I thought it could have been much more. So I was hesitant to read the books. A year ago as I was browsing in one of those [...]
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves – our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. Now that I’ve been one myself, I know. Margarete Atwood The Blind Assassin I [...]
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