Too Late to Start?
The Fear of Being Too Late to Start At forty, I discovered I was born to teach. At…
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Inherited Confusion
I’ve been praying in Arabic for thirty years. Five times a day. The same words. The same verses.…
Stranger
Professor Rahman sat three tables away at the café. I saw him immediately. Macro economics, ten years ago.…
The Edited Memory
Scrolling through high school reunion photos, everyone commented "best years of our lives!" Then I opened my old…
Faculty
Happy’s been waiting fifteen years. Not with ultimatums. She just waits. While I figure out that nodding…
Avoiding
I've been avoiding the conversation with Happy for three months now. The five-year plan. Where we're going. What…
Eating
I destroy things when they get comfortable. Intense, then distant. With her. With work. With Arash. That cycle.…
Tony Danza
I have been singing "hold me closer, Tony Danza" for two decades. I had never heard of Tony…
Fever
A father keeps watch over his son's fever through the night, a quiet vigil that connects him to…
Homesick for Nowhere
How do you explain homesickness for a place that doesn't exist? "Like I'm missing somewhere. But I don't…