I was thinking last week, “what’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned from marriage?” I learned it two or three years into our marriage, and...

“Dirooz.” “Yesterday.” To my son Issa, everything in the past is “Dirooz” (“Yesterday”) — no matter if it happened yesterday, 5 weeks...

Issa’s current favorite book is about Jimmy, a rabbit who wants to learn how to ride a bike. I love the book too — but there’s one part...

Are we more equipped to handle failure, than success? I was thinking that people fail more often than they succeed. There are many things...

I was washing the dishes the other day, and suddenly realized something: The way I wash a dish is EXACTLY the way my mom washed a dish:...

This is the same hill that my wife grew up playing on — in the small town of Bellefontaine, Ohio (population today: 14,000). Last week,...

I was watching dinosaur cartoons with my 2.5 year old, Issa, and this dinosaur I’d never seen before appeared. “What’s this…. I’ve never...

I was filling up Issa’s water bucket in the bath. He started screaming: “It’s ending! It’s endiiiiiing!” I was so confused…. “It’s...

Issa's teacher told me that Issa got into an argument with his classmate at daycare. Issa and his classmate were each holding THEIR OWN...

One reason we love presents 🎁 is that they don’t come with a past. In our relationship with a present 🎁, there is often no history,...

“Make peace with the moment.” با لحظه آشتی کن. I was putting down new bed sheets and my mind was racing: thinking about the future, the...

“Most of our thoughts are assumptions.” I’ve been sitting with this epiphany for the past few days. I think it was such a powerful...

"Do you want Issa to play soccer?" "Do you wish that Issa becomes a lawyer?" "Are you going to teach him the Piano?" Friends and...

Half-eaten breakfast toast, untouched coffee (that has been microwaved 15 times already but is cold yet again) … this is the love and...

“The purpose of everything is itself.” I’ve been watching my son Issa move happily through life — wondering, what is the secret to...

This is the problem of not being present. The best fix I've found for it so far, is to look at everything you do -- whether work,...

“I don’t need to give love; I need to be love.” My son Issa was very sick this week — I think Monday was one of the hardest days of my...

As I waited in the airport lobby for my mom’s arrival — an experience familiar to many immigrants, and those with parents living far away...

I was having a difficult time with a family member this week — I was getting very impatient with them — until I realized something. “The...

“That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet.” Make EVERY interaction count 💗 Every encounter is a chance to come closer...