This kid is going places…
Where the Muslim girl points out a great Christmas gift idea
I’m convinced people that don’t celebrate Christmas are the best at celebrating it. I saw this wall calendar and fell a little in love so I’m getting it for myself. If you have a creative in your life and they’re a nerd like me who loves calendars, you probably won’t go wrong with this. But …
An incredible moment in my family’s American life
Yesterday, my grandmother became an American citizen. My entire life I’ve been reminded what a wonderful, incredible privilege of birth I gained being the first in my family born in America. I heard the stories, watched my siblings struggle navigating the immigration maze and remember moments of my childhood playing tag inside the waiting rooms …
Quote and a Question: How Do You Thrive?
I was having a conversation tonight with a good friend about ambition and self-care. She quoted a Self article to me: “When I exercise, eat well and get enough rest, I thrive. Repeating those things every day is how I show myself love.” While I absolutely agree with that, I’m aware enough to know we …
Ideas about work: Never, ever extreme commute.
This weekend I headed to Baltimore to give a talk at a women’s event about getting more young women engaged in community change. Great time with wonderful women and I’m glad I could do it. But driving over, I feel like I forgot how far away Baltimore is. At one point I said out loud, …
An honor!
I’m excited to share Washingtonian Magazine named me a Woman to Watch as part of their Most Powerful Women in Washington issue. Getting recognized alone was an honor, getting to share the celebration with good friends was just a bonus treat. I feel like I spent the entire week ending my sentences with exclamation points …
Web of Change Reflections
Over on the Be Bold Blog, I have a write up on the Web of Change conference I attended at Hollyhock. At the risk of being redundant, it was a pretty magical experience, but you can go read all about it yourself. And enjoy this view we got on the way home…
Tell someone not to be afraid. And give them a hug.
“Don’t be afraid to fail, don’t be afraid to take risks, ask questions, ask stupid questions, don’t be afraid to trip, fall and don’t be afraid to get back up.” – Michelle Obama’s motivational remarks at Oxford University to North London schoolgirls from Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school. At the end of the hour-long visit, she …
This is it. Give your best work now.
I finished reading Hugh MacLeod’s book Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination over the weekend. It was a good read, especially for someone like myself: a determined creative who feels a little bit stuck and in need of some focus. I was hit over the head with the chapter “This Is …
On discipline, writing and compassion.
Today is my brother, Rashid’s birthday. Six years older than me, tall, fanatical about literature and hilarious I hold my brother responsible for shaping my life in three critical ways: On Discipline. I played a lot of sports growing up and one thing that I remember is that I was never very good at these …
