I used to be really into Halloween to the point of planning my costume well in advance. That meant taking out the sewing machine and actually making something to wear. Maybe because in those days I had somewhere to go and show off. This may be hard to believe, but Halloween has always been a [...]
Apparently officials in France and Italy have decided the Burqini reveals too little and have banned women from wearing them to public pools and beaches. Thanks to an Australian sportswear company named Ahiida, Muslim women can be modestly attired while fearlessly active in the water and on dry land. Ruqaya Al Ghasara, a short distance [...]
HEALTH CARE WATCH by the Numbers with Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com As I lamented yesterday, health care is one of those areas where both popular opinion and sound public policy seem to take a backseat to protecting those stakeholders who benefit from the status quo. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, the numbers cruncher whose stats predicted [...]
June 4, 2009. This speech isn’t just for Muslims.
I couldn’t help but take notice yesterday of Ethelbert Miller’s comment on his E-Notes. African Americans and Islam is a topic threaded through E-Notes along with baseball stats, articles and books to read, shout outs from and to literary friends, poetic post-its etc. My head is spinning a bit on this one — the subject [...]
I remember getting my first St. Patrick’s Day card…from Ireland. The card was from a former co-worker who had repatriated to Ireland with her husband. I was surprised that it didn’t have dancing leprechauns or a “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” kind of limerick. It was quite sober, sweet, and religious. Like choosing an angel over [...]
March 20th ushers in another new year – a Persian Iranian New Year known as Nowruz or “New Day” which coincides with the Spring equinox. It’s all new to me. A third screening of the Community Cinema series’ February film, ARUSI PERSIAN WEDDING, is scheduled for a free public showing Sunday, March 8th. This event’s [...]
I may be wrong, but just in case we have another abridged King birthday with a looping of “I Have A Dream,” I want to share my favorite quote by Dr. King from his sermon “Time to Break Silence” which was delivered at the Riverside Church in New York City April 4, 1967. If we [...]
As the LGBTQ community continues to be upset, and rightfully so, about [Rev. Rick] Warren taking the podium/pulpit for the invocation to call the nation together for Obama’s inauguration as our 44nd president, we, the queers of America and our allies, need to keep in mind that the outgoing blessing and charge will be given [...]
The Unitarian Universalist Washington Office for Advocacy’s Olive Branch Peace Offering Partnership is hosting a “Rebirthing King” Celebration! the day before that other event (smile). The celebration will be held at All Souls Church, Unitarian on 1500 Harvard Street, NW in Washington, DC. Here’s the announcement: “Rebirthing King”- An Olive Branch Interfaith Peace Partnership Event [...]
