On the butter-yellow staircase at Poet’s House, I always take a moment to pause. The staircase leads on to a room I wish I had discovered earlier, with book nooks and wide tables overlooking the water. The building is in an unlikely spot down by Wall Street, and I got a chance to revisit only […]
Shaka – bracelets made out of shells, here shown in different stages of the cutting and carving process. Currently, I’m in transit. I’m headed to New York to speak at the Muslim Protagonist conference at Columbia University. Just three weeks ago, I was in Dhaka living an entirely separate life. And for the interim it’s […]
Spread of watch parts and descriptions of watchmaker industry. I’m moving out of NYC, my home of the past six years, today. I’ll be setting off for a wild and woolly adventure around the country and the globe (in case you weren’t aware of my travel plans, take a look!). I’m going to be taking […]
Bookshelf with notebooks and small clay elephant. *** She made homes out of old boxes and bleached out pillowcases. She made homes out of too-heavy earrings that dragged down her ears. She made homes out of imperfect things. She made them out of whatever was convenient. Even now, I wouldn’t even know what to […]
Photo credit: Heather Hoppe at Sideways Sunrise I have a lot of questions about day(s) after. Most of that thinking is about the day after the revolution than the day after my holiday vacation, but both are equally valuable. Today is the day after the anniversary of 9/11 and, in my experience, the day occurred […]
While much of NYC (and the East coast in general) is experiencing the intense ramifications of tropical storm Sandy, I am here safe, with power, and all my amenities. I feel extremely blessed that the storm just scared me, but didn’t affect me much otherwise – our part of Manhattan is on a hill and […]
Every time I move somewhere, I think it’s going to be easier. I’m under that illusion that moving across the country is the least of my difficulties, now that I’ve moved halfway around the world and can say that I have some major life experiences under my belt. But then it’s 6am and we’ve just […]
Last week, I had the amazing privilege to cry, laugh, and learn at three amazing events throughout the city – as I wrote about on Monday, my staycation allowed me to really savor the opportunities of NYC again, and these were three of the best ways I knew how. Here’s the recap! Image via […]
This past week, I’ve been conspicuously absent from the online world. Instead, I was out in the city, experiencing the much-anticipated week of freedom known as spring break. Rather than heading back to Seattle, my best friend from home and I gallivanted through the city and had a blast. Sometimes when living in NYC, you […]
This weekend, I attended SlutWalk NYC. Now, despite my misgivings on the idea of reclaiming the word “slut” (see some great articles on this topic such as this one), I felt like the first message of the SlutWalk was an admirable one: no one should be made to feel they called for sexual violation/violence due […]