after the storm

what follows after the storm
is tenderness
something so soft, so fragile
it’s near impossibility to try and hold onto
the grasp must be loosened and the strings untied
love must escape
and past felonies must wither away like scars,
deep-rooted, but old enough to warrant accumulation of fresh skin
over tired hearts and defeated eyes,
aged with a continual stream of regrets
what follows [...]

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Another home

Just wanted to alert My Own Reader’s readers (that sounds funny doesn’t it?) to visit Disconnected Verses, my second home on WordPress.  As the About page states, Disconnected Verses is the brainchild of a few young Muslim women in Toronto (i.e. my friends and I) with the inkling to write.  I’ll be a frequent contributer [...]

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Eid Mubarak!

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Update on Natalie

She’s sort of progressing, but not really. Which means she’s temporarily on hold, but not really.
In the meanwhile, whatever do I blog about?

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Something like a hiatus

If you haven’t already noticed from the slow decline in posting, my creative muse has been eluding me much of late and it seems like it might be a while before I have the energy to go hunting for it. I’m sure you’ve come to expect it already, but if you haven’t, this means [...]

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Why blog?

A Star article on blogging quotes Indiana University dean, Blaise Cronin:

“One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog. Why do they choose to expose their unremarkable opinions, sententious drivel, and unedifying private lives to the potential gaze of total strangers?”

I suppose I can’t argue with that. And I’m too intellectually exhausted to bother trying anyway.
Any [...]

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What you can’t tell

An astonishingly long time ago, the ingeniously witty SAFspace lady decided to boss me around for kicks and tagged me. I would, of course, ignore her considerably large demand of dedicating one whole precious post just to answer her question, but instead, I decided to oblige. I figure she’ll owe me one this way at [...]

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