20 Things to Do in a Freezing January
1. Miss out on the countdown cause you’re stuck in traffic. Celebrate in the car on the phone instead. 2. Get out of the city to clean your lungs. Smoke a lot of cigarettes. 3. Cherish the sun when...
View ArticleCravings
the ice and the summer and the heat and the sweat and sitting outside and drinking mojitos and the pool and the dead sea and the trips and the laughter and the watermelons and the parties and the...
View ArticleIf I can’t be an astronaut, then at least I want a space helmet
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View ArticleHey You, Can You Hear Me?
This song and Pink Floyd in general represent an important phase in my life.Being the extremist I am, my life fluctuates cyclically between ruts of excessive safety zones and peaks of obsessive mania....
View ArticleThe Damn Words Won’t Stop Coming
The words are bouncing against your cranium; back and forth, back and forth. You can feel them smack against each other, enjoying it sometimes, hating it sometimes.They want to leave your cranium. They...
View Article15 Things to Make February Better
I recently discovered that there are two winters.The first winter lasts till December, so your blood is still warm from the long summer. It’s also the festive season, and you’re constantly doing...
View ArticleHow to be happy
Understand just how small and insignificant you are*.The Universe — its past, its present, its future — isn’t about your ego and your inconsequential issues.There are more than 100 billion galaxies in...
View ArticleBe Wise Like Andy
I speak to dead, dead Andy, and he speaks back to me.My conversations with him are probably the only “crazy” thing I do, because in all other aspects of my life, I am boringly sane. Yet, it’s not...
View ArticleAvocados
And I want to tell to you about avocados, and the buttery texture of avocados. I want to hold an avocado against your nose and I want to watch your eyes take in its earthy smell. I want you to feel the...
View ArticleNostalgia for Japan
The cartoons. The hours spent pretending to be Captain Majed. Our Japanese childhood. No related posts.
View ArticleA Love Letter to My Cause, a Love Letter to My Mother
Mama,My first vivid memory of joy is when I was three.That day, you were painting Snow White on my bedroom’s wall in the old Abu Nseir house. I’m not sure if a three-year old can feel joy, but I...
View Article100 things that make me happy
It’s the first day of spring. Let’s all take a few minutes to remember the little things that bring us joy.Here are 100 things that make me happy, in no particular order:1. My family 2. The heat of the...
View ArticleOn March
The tides marched in.Can you really archive time?2007: On March | On April | On May | On June | On July | On August | On September | On October | On November | On December2008: On January | On February...
View ArticleA photoshoot in Abdali’s Friday Market, and um… on being a cover girl
I’ve said this before and I will say it again, but MyKali, the same people who brought us “Bringing Bizer Back” and “The Man Who Uses Rainbow Street as a Gym” are definitely my favorite local magazines...
View ArticleElectricity, the Internet, and a Photoshoot: My Interview on MyKali
Head on over to MyKali to read the interview I was telling you about earlier.The photoshoot is beyond AWESOME, themed around some of the things I love most in life: wires, computers, the color red, and...
View ArticleLife Advice from Jack Kerouac
My latest literary obsession is Jack Kerouac. I also love googling pictures of him, because he looked a lot like my father did.Here are some of the things he wrote:“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to...
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