What to read? Where to go?
So Sh. and I leave in six days and have essentially no plans for our trip other than eventually meeting up with her relatives in the Netherlands, and perhaps...
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Learning to write like ᒣᐃᓔ
I met a friend’s nieces on the weekend; they were visiting Montréal with their parents and attended a brunch held by Sh’s former roommate. Neat family: thei...
Your fun fact of the day
Number of daily newspapers in the United States: 1,480 Number of those which have reporters in Iraq: 3
Birthdays and other forms of social networking
Saturday was Sh.’s 30th birthday, so we had people over; something we ought to do more often. It ended up being a pretty good crowd including some people we...
The niqāb, again
I can’t believe this didn’t occur to me before, but a news article mentioned in a comment yesterday pointed out that Muslims, especially ones who wear the ni...