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Books That Saved My Life: New Youtube Short Video Series

Dear friends of books, reading, dreaming, learning, thinking & meditating 🧘🏻‍♂️ I’m launching a new series of YouTube shorts (literature, philosophy, spiritua...

Exciting News: New Book Cover 😇

Forgive the long absence … Life! I am quietly thrilled to receive a first look at my forthcoming collection of new reflections— political, cultural & spiritual ...

O, Palestine! O, Israel! O, Humanity!

My paternal grandmother, may she rest in peace, was forced to leave her ancestral home, in Palestine, at gunpoint. So, it’s especially meaningful for me to see ...

Happy Birthday, Poet Rilke

Who are our literary friends that we can still (re)turn to... after the great flood of youth 🌊 Austrian poet, Rilke, is one of the few old friends for me who r...

My Words Featured in a Popular Calendar 📆

One day, on Instagram, I saw a quote of mine featured in a popular calendar & it gave me an idea. Since my sayings have gone viral & are used in classrooms, alr...

Egyptian dancer (& friend) wins prestigious French award

Around 2 decades ago, when I still lived in Egypt, I attended a powerful contemporary dance performance that blew my mind 🤯 It was passionate, beautiful, free,...

Visiting a (once) Dangerous Neighborhood in Colombia 🇨🇴

It used to be, around 10 years ago, that you did not visit Comuna 13, in San Javier, Colombia— which was then under gorilla control. Thanks, to former President...

Danny boy’s first bath 🧼🐶🐾

Pups can’t regulate their body temperature, but after a particularly difficult/messy night, we had to give Danny boy his first proper bath 🧼 He was up all nigh...

Attending 3 day Crypto Conference in Medellin, Colombia 🇨🇴

Thanks, to my forward-thinking, curious wife, I learned of Steemit/Hive, where I’ve been blogging for a few years, now, regularly. So, it’s no surprise that dur...

Danny boy is growing up 🐶

My pup is growing up. We’ve had him for a little over 10 days, now, and he’s around a month old. The good boy is (almost) potty trained & (nearly) sleeps throug...

Inspirational Sayings from my Books sent, daily, to your Phone📱

A project I’ve dreamed of, for years, is now a reality. I've collaborated with a clever young programmer/to deliver one quote a day from my books as a text mess...

Back at the animal farm

Today, we left the city & drive up to the farm with our new doggy & two ducks 🦆 Danny the pup 🐶 is a competitive sleeper and napped away most of the day in ac...

Meet new family members

My heart is full! How could it not be, with this adorable new little guy in our lives 🤗 We named the sweet pup, Danny, which it turns out means (in Hebrew) God...

Academic in Chinese University quotes my Work — in a study of wisdom literature 😇

Fascinating to see my work cited in an academic study about aphorisms, by a professor from Beijing University, China. Particularly interesting to me is the noti...

How suffering makes us better …

There is much to protest in the modern world & that might push us to civil disobedience: political injustice, governmental corruption, immoral wars. But, in the...

I’ve been invited to give a school presentation, in Egypt 🇪🇬

While lying in bed, half awake, I received exciting news this morning — still in early talks, so keeping it general 🤓 I just got invited by a school to give an...

Remembering my Cousin … gone too soon 🕊

Rest In Peace, dear Yasmina…Cousin, Friend, Journalist & Author 🙏🏼✨ Today, would have been your 47th birthday & you live on in the hearts of all whose lives y...

My books In Singapore 🇸🇬

It’s exciting to wake up this morning & hear from a writer friend, the prolific author of 20 books, that he saw my books on the shelves of a bookstore in Singap...

Midnight Confession

Make a list and count the ways you hide and seek to self-medicate through food, drink, art, prayer and other more violent distractions to convince others and yo...

Easy meals for one week

If you follow this blog, you’ve heard me say (countless times) how wonderful airfryers are. Case in point, I was using it, yesterday, to prepare chicken tenders...