As I mentioned in my guest-post linked here, I am often looking for ways to get my kids engaged in their spiritual lives, by means of collaborative crafts, active communication, mutual cooperation, sharing, and respect. As they often work on artistic expressions of the various celebrations that occur throughout the year among the various communities represented at their schools, I find myself constantly challenged to … Continue reading Bookmarks
I’m on a ketogenic diet, if you’d like to learn more about it you can watch The Magic Pill Movie on Netflix, I am therefore constantly on the lookout for recipes that include keto friendly ingredients, so I don’t have to deprive myself too much, and can trick my brain into thinking I’m having bread, or a delicious loaf, although there are no grains in … Continue reading Keto friendly loaf
Back home in Libya normally kids don’t go to school during Ramadan, that makes it a lot easier to be able to enjoy the month all together as a family, because we can stay up later and go back to sleep after fajr. But here (and in some Muslim countries now) kids go to school, and our work schedules don’t change much during Ramadan, so … Continue reading Salma’s Ramadan
I will share with you a couple of thoughts that have been running through my mind a lot lately: one has to do with the need for minorities (class, racial, religious, etc.) to stick together, and the other with the need for us to listen to each other. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said we should help our brothers and sisters whether they do good or bad, … Continue reading Solidarity
I’ve become a blogger initially to provide a platform for my Caterpillar Café project, but it has broadened its scope to achieve the same aim: to gather different people and ideas, and get them to know each other, grow together, and make our worlds richer and more meaningful through our interactions. What the Caterpillar Café offered to me and many other women in post-war Tripoli, … Continue reading Safety
You’ve all heard me harping on and on about plastic pollution and it seems some of our efforts to reduce the amount of plastic we use are finally paying off! A recent study by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) has found that the number of plastic bags on the seabeds surrounding the […] Rebloging this awesome collection of tips to minimize plastic … Continue reading Happy Earth Day!
Sara (not her actual name) is one of the most consummate optimists I’ve ever known, I deeply admire her gumption, and I am certain that you will too! This is her story: We met for the first time after the Revolution, at the Caterpillar Café. I think it went well, Alhamdulillah (thank God), I wouldn’t change a thing, except I wish we’d seen each … Continue reading Sara
The above are some of Sabina’s works of art. To purchase one, please email her at: sabina.rossi@hotmail.it Le sculture e quadri qui sopra sono alcune delle opere d’arte di Sabina, per comprarne una, per favore contattatela a: sabina.rossi@hotmail.it English summary (Italian interview follows) I got to achieve pretty much all major goals I set out to reach, with a few exceptions, the main … Continue reading Sabina
A country’s rebirth, it’s hopeful, painful, exciting and scary all at once and for Libya it’s been all this and so much more, intermittently, for a few years already. We started this concept of a Cafe for moms and children with this newness in mind, hoping to provide a service where we found a gap that desperately needed to be filled. But reality is so … Continue reading A heartfelt thought
Dear Sister 