• Unknown Callers

    The caller ID window offered no identification or phone number. Should we shoot our phone?

  • How Much Do You Do Before You Click “Publish”?

    Before I click “publish”, I follow a step-by-step process and once that process is completed, I click. But the process is longer and has more steps for a book-length manuscript that I’m planning to sell to readers compared to the editing process for a post that’s free to read. For example, Hemingway had a process. He worked on one-page a…

  • The many faces of a Modern Day Democratic Tyrant: Political Correctness: Part 2/2

    Did you know that America’s Founding Fathers hated democracy and for a good reason?

  • Will this generation reach avatar immortality?

    How about a new life with the old you? Starting over at age eighteen again from eighty or older.

  • Good News Twice in One Day

    What does it take to get your book noticed in a crowded marketplace?

  • Opinions versus the Truth – are they one and the same?

    When does an opinion become the truth, and who decides what that truth is?

  • Coffee with Hafiz.

    Originally posted on love in a tiny room: I am in a love affair with Hafiz. His poems tickle my throat and turn the corners of my lips up. His words dance with my fingers as if I wrote them myself. I sit in the streets with the homeless If my alarm sings at 6:45 then I am out of…

  • “Arranged” Marriage

    Originally posted on Love, InshAllah: I am madly in love with a good man. Next week, I am going to marry another. I have cried more tears this year than I have cried in my entire life. I have been brought so low that I cannot see a way out. I no longer trust my own judgment, my own thoughts,…

  • She Treats Me so Mean

    “Use me and abuse me like you did before.”