Hey, Oman has Internets!
So, Khalid and Iman’s first road trip was interesting- we carefully and gently took them from their beds at five in the morning, hoping to deposit them, still asleep, into their car seats. Well, we...
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Left my heart in San Francisco
And my camera in Oman! Noooooooooooooooo! Alhamdulillah ála kulli haal. Praise be to Allah in all circumstances. Ok, so I have interesting stories but no pictures, and on top of that, I have a week...
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Live from Manila…
Wow, the Philippines looks a lot like Karachi- but with more shorts and flipflops and no donkeys. And no one even stares. Which I am amazed and impressed by. Am here for one and a half more days of...
View ArticleHow’s this for an update?
I’m sitting here waiting for the next interview to begin and thought I’d actually post something. Alhamdulillah, the trip is going well. Yesterday we held a 2 1/2 hour orientation for therapists and...
View ArticleMortein vs. Rocket Bug
Phone line? We don’t need no stinkin phone line! Oh wait, yes we do. And we would like to have one, but as my Turkish students would say, “It isn’t in the Kismet.” Adventures in Abezistan: Struth, I...
View ArticleWould you like fries with that bride?
Three days ago a car pulled up at my father’s restaurant, packed with people, all dressed up. Now, I admit that Chez Daddy is a nice place, but it’s hardly fine dining. Three of the people got out, one...
View ArticleHemmi’s Guest House, Day 1
Dear Momma & AssalamuAlaikum Abbu & Zaymun & Blogistan Abez, coming to you live from Hemmie’s computer room, where I’m taking meticulous notes and spying on the natives. Mwahahahaaaaa! To...
View ArticleHey, good news for a change!
Alhamdulillah!!! I'm going to be publishing my first book! Given the last ten or so years of my blogging history, you'll be surprised to hear it isn't actually full of mortal wounds, kids stories, and...
View ArticleHome Thoughts from Heathrow
It was a strange angle for my head to be tilted at, cocked severely to the right and resting uneasily against the cabin window. I woke up because I smelled eggs. The passenger to my left was still...
View ArticleAdventures in Taxistan
I seem to have the most interesting luck with cab drivers. I always get the ones who don’t speak either language that I do, or sometimes, I get the ones with ‘stiff neck syndrome,’ a terminal condition...
View ArticleAdventures in Amreeka
Four years ago, when Owlie and I lived with our uncle in Karachi while the rest of the family till lived in Chicago, I hoped that the phone was ringing for us from the US, and the home I missed was in...
View ArticleAn Ode
How shall I update? Let me count the ways. I shall update about the man in the white paper hat, a butcher. Oh how he sternly, how resolutely he worked, jaw firmly set, eyes focused straight ahead upon...
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We’re taking this show on the road!
We are excited to announce that the House of Cupcakes (this house, these cupcakes) is embarking on an epic road trip to… the Smokey Mountains! I am not sure who is more excited, me or the kids. The...
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The short version of the long story of how I broke my salah
Once upon a time a month ago, we begin the longest possible explanation of how I broke my Isha prayer last night. It started with two friends of HusbandFriend, each of whom lost their fathers within a...
View ArticleMan that was fun
Le Sigh. We just got back from our vacation, and our house is not livable. Buuuut……. That’s not what I wanna write about. Change of topic. we just went on a 3-week vacay to dubai, oman, and turkey- and...
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