Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day are all wonderful times of the year to celebrate life, love, family, friends and society at large. However we (read I) somehow have a tendency to “over-do” the doing and “under-do” the being...
Being raised in a Syrian Christian family, advent (the 4 weeks leading to Christmas Day) was a season of fasting and preparing our hearts to receive baby Jesus. Denying ourselves in itself is not a virtue but it certainly prepares a path for virtues to follow....
It was three summers ago. A summer that our kids showed us the resilience of childhood and taught us much about parenting. In a moment of temporary insanity, I had agreed to my husband’s suggestion of taking our 5 kids to 5 countries for 5 weeks...
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." --Elbert Hubbard I have heard many times, "We can't change how our kids are going to turn out...
Patience is that virtue coveted by all but nebulous to reach there are numerous times that I have been told, "Just be patient!". But, how? How does one inculcate patience? Have you been answered with a blank stare when you have asked this of someone...
As we read, hear, and watch hate crimes plaguing the media, we wonder how mankind can inflict these heinous crimes on itself. As I have written in an earlier post, human beings are the highest of God's creation not because of what we do but...
Summer has been hard. I was really wiped out yesterday from our recent international travel and keeping the kids on schedule. Saying that it's been "24/7" is a slight exaggeration, but not by much! I was exhausted yesterday and didn't go for my weekly 6 mile...
Yesterday I got this text from my 14 year old daughter, Eesha who was helping out at horse riding camp: The way to a teens heart (and time) is through her stomach...
One of my comfort foods growing up was boiled rice tossed in the skillet that fish was shallow-fried. Gobbling up the rice coated with all the browned spices and crunchy fish bits was considered an indulgence in those simpler times. However, being averse to frying (and...
