The sky knows no bounds Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Today is Blog Quake Day.
It is also the day that the UN is holding an international donor conference in Geneva to dicuss relief operations and aid the victims of the earthquake before a “winter without pity” sets […]

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Hey, kids, how goes it? I’m still around, just trying to find things to do with myself besides chase the sunshine around the house. Somedays, it’s just so much easier to uploads photos to Flickr and deal with brusque titles/captions (or none at all) than it is to compose coherent pieces of writing for this […]

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"With every difficulty, there is relief" Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Nightly, I dream of rain and hail and snow-covered mountains, when in reality my local mountains are gorgeously goldenbrown and I daily chase patches of sunshine all over the house so I can gleefully warm up my […]

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My eyes, and my heart, ache from three days of reading about the earthquake in South Asia. For most of Saturday, I sat at my father’s computer, alternately updating Excel/QuickBooks spreadsheets, downloading mp3s of Quran chapters for my father (I prefer Sa’ad al-Ghamidi; he wanted Abdul Rahman al-Sudais), and compulsively hitting “refresh” on news websites […]

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In characteristic Yasmine-is-a-Lazy-Bum fashion, I’m a few days late in posting this update. Here’s wishing you much ease and discipline in your fasting, whether it’s for Ramadan, Navratri, or the ten days from Rosh Hashana until Yom Kippur for the Jewish New Year. Abhi has a lovely post over at Sepia Mutiny entitled My first […]

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Well, eff you too, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Ramadan is any day now and I’ll need to get started on Project Personal Betterment v.3957975, so now would be a good time to admit […]

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The week before last, my mother and I spent two separate days visiting various relatives and family friends, which is a lot of time considering the fact that, since we kids have grown up, we’ve fallen out of our weekly visiting-the-relatives habit. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but I do start missing all […]

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