“Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you, keep your eyes on the Friend.” – Rumi (from Rumi’s Little Book of Love) Dear Fellow Warrior and Friend, I just wanted to keep you posted about something with respect to this website. The social network icons are…
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The “Qurbani Ka Bakarah”
Featured photo: NaniSer Village, in District Tharparkar, Sindh, Pakistan. February 7, 2019. Happy July Everyone! I was happy to learn this week, that July is Disability Pride month. I may have missed this all these years. But I am so happy this is the issue that is covered in July. Happy Disability Pride Month! And…
Songs of Victory….
Yesterday, I attended my School-specific graduation. I really wanted to get a lot of different things done relevant to my dissertation research before this date, but it couldn’t happen due to the need to prioritize the “dignity of work” which I will address in a different post. It was a special and important moment for…
Hitting “Refresh:” Renaming My Blog and Sharing Updates
“The most understandable trap is to wait for fear to subside before starting one’s journey. It doesn’t, won’t, and shouldn’t. Too much good writing comes from writers on the edge. Trying to defeat or portage around normal writing anxieties merely postpones the day when we confront our fears directly and find the courage to write.”…
Twenty Years…
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain It has been Twenty Years…. Twenty Years. I suppose there…
Anxiety in Public Speaking … Part I.
I wrote this post on Facebook earlier this month and thought it should be included here as I’ve been blogging parts of my PhD Journey here too. The majority of what I have captured in my PhD life has actually been on Facebook since the moment I started applying to PhD programs in 2010-2011, and…