Category: Living purposefully

Ramadan is less than a month away (and I’m still making up fasts from last year!) and the Goucher summer residency is roughly six weeks

Finally got a new writing assignment yesterday. I’ve been late with so many deadlines recently I was getting worried that editors had given up on

…but I never am. The Islamic Horizons issue with my article about gun violence is out.  I tried out a more narrative-y lede and I

The spring semester is over, and I finished, as they say, not with a bang but with a whimper.  I carried over much of my

I’ve done a lot of thinking about writing, reading about writing, surfing the net for writing blogs, talking about writing, musing about writing – but

In my continuing quest to find the root of my procrastination and thus rid myself of it, I’ve identified an attitude that is probably a

Oh Allah, it is Your mercy that I hope for, so do not leave me in charge of my affairs even for a blink of