Stories

Humanity, Stories / 10.04.2017

Our soul tells a story. Each soul has numerous experiences that make up its journey. Whether that journey is short lived or aged into many lifetimes, it is a journey of moments which make up a story as individual as a fingerprint. According to my Daadi, I was born an “old soul” always gravitating to the elders: their conversations, their laughter, and stories were intoxicating. I couldn’t get enough! Sitting underneath the stars in Pakistan, in the basement of our family home in Chicago, or on the Persian carpet in our living room in Rialto, the stories were endless, the nights...

Love, Stories / 21.08.2016

I’ve never thought our love story was unique: Boy meets girl. They talk and date for five years. They get married. Boy happens to be Jewish and girl happens to be Muslim. My prince didn’t ride in on a white steed nor was I a damsel in distress. He in-line skated all over our college campus with a camera around his neck while I worked two jobs to put myself through college. He was the photographer for our college paper and I a news writer. We collaborated together on our first assignment, a behind-the-scenes look at the historical Mission Inn in...