A few years ago for Lent, I gave up getting angry. Since I was fairly devout in college, I had already done meat, television, and my favorite foods: chocolate, Coca Cola, Tostitos in my twenties. After I moved to Qatar and saw the diligence with which Muslims pray five times a day and also fast [...]

The secret to my sauce has been simple: never give up and always do what needs to be done today, now. In part these two things came from my upbringing and then were reinforced over young adulthood. My parents, despite wanting to do better for us, often put dreams away into the distant horizon. “One [...]

After a very stressful week and promises to myself as well as my close friends that I would not touch my email all weekend (despite not having a Blackberry, I often am ‘that girl’ these days on my Nokia if there is wireless internet available), I tried to pull together some modicum of energy to [...]