Category: Living purposefully

Eventually I will return to being a writer.  This time I won’t be a depressed and mopey cookie-eater.  I have to make it my career,

I read with interest this piece by Sara Finnerty on Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog. It’s a list of things she wishes she had told herself after

My new day job requires a 25-mile commute (each way), so I now spend an hour and a half to two hours every day in

I’ve been at my new job full-time for a little over a month now, and my internal monologue has become more strident and provocative.  I

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