Traveling through Ever-Changing Ireland
Ireland 1982: Age 7 – I had never traveled by plane anywhere. I’ll never forget that we went from Boston to Shannon via “Pan Am” and fell asleep. When we were approaching Ireland, we looked…
Tag: Memoir
Cemetery Story: A Muslim’s Memoir
I enter the cemetery and follow the all too familiar winding paths. Overhead the jets taking off and landing at Hobby airport assault my ears with the roaring of their turbine engines. The anterior graves…
Creating Beauty: A Homemaker’s Mission
I am hesitant to declare it out loud for fear of jinxing it, but I think spring is finally here. Each time I have thought that spring had arrived in the last couple of weeks…
My Penn-Mar Journey
In late February of 2020, I traveled north to meet my good friend and our editor-in-chief at Fellowship & Fairydust, Avellina Balestri, for the first time. My dad took me to the airport that morning,…
Sometimes it Snows in Bethlehem
Author’s Note: The story below is true. Bless you all on this Christmas season and may you each receive a Christmas Miracle. And may we contemplate on that cold starry night the Blessed Mother…
A Muslim’s Reflection on Prayer
Sometimes, when I’m overwhelmed by that hard to describe eeriness, I feel like my whole life is a mystery. ‘It must be!’ my overthinking mind shouts out in those moments, for nothing ever seems to…
Mi Corazon: A Luncheon Encounter
A friend and I were enjoying a now rare lunch occasion at Flying J / Denny’s-Limited-Menu-Wear-a-Mask along the interstate. The food was fine, as always, but the place was corona-time dreary, with tables spaced far apart,…
Goliath Roach
I know that whatever sermon God has my pastors deliver is meant to guide and equip me for the week ahead. Bishop preached on David and Goliath — on how Goliath towered over David, but…
The Enigma of Elsa in Disney’s Frozen
Temperatures are dropping, the season's first snows are falling, and the long-awaited sequel to Frozen has swept into theaters like an icy blast. As we settle in for winter, let's examine the woman at the…
The Journey of My Life in Books
I haven’t always been that interested in reading. In fact, up until I was about 16 years old, I was very resistant to reading books (a factor probably resulting from my dyslexia, which I wasn’t…