Guest blogger: ZaydI am grateful for all of nature’s creatures because what would the world be without them. Bland. You wouldn’t hear the chirp of the birds, you wouldn’t hear the croak

Guest blogger: ZaydDear Nunno,I wanted to tell you that I am very grateful that you are my grandpa. I love that when we just walk in the door to your house

Guest blogger: SaanyaMy dad and I are too similar for words. He and I have the same taste in music, clothes, cities, movies; we share the same opinions and reactions

On January 1, 2012, I took a small cotton candy pink notebook that Saanya had bought for me, “Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake” emblazoned in white on its cover, and wrote

This year has been the most difficult I’ve faced. Between parents’ illness and surgery, death in our extended family, and some things I don’t have the courage to write about yet

This year has been the most difficult I’ve faced. Between parents’ illness and surgery, death in our extended family, and some things I don’t have the courage to write about yet,

Since Salma started the 30 days 30 deeds blog last year and the things we are grateful for this Ramadan, I have been thinking a lot about good deeds and gratitude.

Guest blogger: ZaydI am grateful for cars, because without them what could we do. Barely anything. We couldn’t go to work, we couldn’t go far distances

Sixteen hours without food certainly makes you think. But I still can’t imagine what it must feel like for people to go without food day after day after day

On Saturday morning at 3:45am my friend Rebecca pulled up in her red Coexist-bumpered Camry. She wanted to try a day of fasting and was coming for suhoor

On Fridays during Ramadan, we break fast with a group of wonderful families, each bringing a dish to share, resulting in a profusion of kebabs, curries and khajoors

My typical morning routine usually starts with a glass of water. These days I reach for it automatically, only to catch myself. A friend posted on Facebook how

I am grateful for the mothers in my life – my mom, and my mother-in-law, and my khalas, who love me like a daughter, and all the other mothers in my family, young and old,

Guest blogger: ZaydI am grateful for Luna, our mini golden doodle, because she is the cutest most playful animal on the planet. I love everything about her

Guest blogger: SaanyaFamily: it may be a cliché thing to be grateful for, but it’s also a pretty simple thing to take for granted. I have an amazing immediate family

We traveled to NY/NJ this weekend to show Saanya’s visiting host-sister from Spain a glimpse of the Big Apple and to try to convince my parents to drive back to DC with us for Ramadan.

My doctor called me this week and said, “I’ve got good news, and bad news.” Not exactly the words you want to hear from a doctor. “It’s not malignant,” she continued.

On the first day of this blessed month, we all woke up to a tragedy beyond belief. Twelve people dead and dozens wounded in an act of terror that has terrorized our conscience and our country.

I was staying at a hotel in Queens, and woke up to a phone call from my manager Al Sirowitz. His call was expected; we were going to be working at a recording studio that day.

A young mother, wearing a black abaya over a bright red shalwar kameez, her hair loosely covered and her hands painted with henna, waits in the front office of the boys school at Edhi Village