Reflections

In early August 2023, while my daughter was visiting her father in England, I took a much needed trip to New York. This was, by no means,...

As I said in my previous post, it's been a long winter and unpredictable spring, which meant the winter blues set in and triggered a seed...

It has been a long hard winter: an unholy amount of snowfall, interchangeable weather that gave me whiplash and a freak freezing rain...

As my balcony garden is winding down with my cold-tolerant plants (kale, parsley, sweet peas, snapdragons) flourishing again after the...

A few months ago, during Ramadan, I started watching a Netflix food documentary called "High on The Hog: How African-American Cuisine...

I gave birth to my daughter in January of 2016 in the UK. I was 36 at the time. We were living in Cairo, Egypt but had gone to the UK so...

I just spent the morning cleaning up my balcony garden in anticipation of the season of winding down that is upon us. Just as fulfilling...

In our society, women, especially mothers, are constantly on the defensive, feeling like they have to justify their parenting decisions,...

As 2021 winds down to a close, people around the globe are bidding adieu to another particularly difficult year...and good riddance....

I am sitting at my dining table, wrapped up in snug sweaters and warm socks, looking out the window at a world buried in snow. As much as...

During the past couple of weeks of lock down I've stumbled on a fitness Youtuber, called Stephanie Buttermore, by pure happenstance. I...

I am a huge fan of Elizabeth Gilbert, and have been for a long time. I've read most of her major bestselling novels: "Eat, Pray, Love"...

Around six months ago, I created my second vision board ever. But the whole experience was more than just cutting up images from...

A couple of days ago I watched the season finale of a show called "Little Fires Everywhere" which drew stellar performances from Reese...

As many of us around the world are in quarantine, and some in 24-hour lock down for a few weeks now, I thought I would share some simple...

At the beginning of this year, I ventured into the world of Keto. Now there's been much buzz going around this new nutritional...

A few months ago, a friend and I were taking a walk and she started telling me of a recent telephone conversation she had with her...

We are now almost a month into the new year, so I thought I would take stock of 2019 and all the life lessons it has taught me which I...