I wanna be on the cover of…

…Millionaire Magazine? No. No, I don’t. Not on its pages either. So imagine my surprise when I found a family photograph of mine had been stolen and used to promote a lame holiday-photo competition of a glossy, nationally-distributed for-profit magazine. A letter to the editor demanding proper attribution produced a bland apology and a request […]

Convocation Day

November means the end of the school year, and once again I have a child successfully completing her academic career and ready to move on to the next stage of her life: Elementary School. Yes, getting through three years of preschool is a momentous achievement, and so a grand ceremony to commemorate the event took […]

Brass Crescent Awards 2010

Voting is open for the Brass Crescent Awards. It’s a great time to check out all the interesting new sites that have popped up over the last year. All the contestants in the media category are all very cool, particularly 30 Mosques in 30 Days, Muslims Wearing Things, and Muslim365, the recent resurrection of the […]

Muslim Garb

“But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are tastefully accoutered in raiment seamlessly blending East and West, that are contemporary yet timeless, daring yet refined, modest yet sophisticated, and i think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as sartorially fabulous, I get […]