Tag: writer
A Writer’s Visit to Author’s Ridge
A recent trip I took to New England to enjoy the Maine seacoast and eat lobster roll also included a stop to indulge the wistful writer in me. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, is where I set my sights. Am I the only weirdo who felt giddy to visit the graves of a bunch […]
There was No Place for a Muslim Journalist in 1980s America
I shared this piece at the Daily Kos: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912291/-There-was-No-Place-for-a-Muslim-Journalist-in-1980s-America?_=2020-01-17T15:56:33.864-08:00 I was a Muslim American kid of the seventies with a writing bent that delighted my third grade Chicago Public School teacher, Miss Hale. A teen of the eighties who penned sappy poetry and wrote for my high school yearbook, people asked, “What do you want […]