Tag: Safe

Wishing someone safe travel is part of almost everyday conversations in life, especially if you are a student of Spanish as your social circle will surely expand and you will have more reasons to wish your friends around the world a happy trip. And, oddly enough, the expression “safe travel...

Wishing someone safe travel is part of almost everyday conversations in life, especially if you are a student of Spanish as your social circle will surely expand and you will have more reasons to wish your friends around the world a happy trip. And, oddly enough, the expression “safe travel...

Our beloved Aurora stepped into the next chapter of her life last month after sending her youngest off to his first year away at college. She and her husband put their home on the market, sold, and packed up to move to their new home in Austin, Texas. Naturally, we wanted to send them off in styl...

What with all the recent mass shootings and murders being blamed our beloved national emblem, I would like to put forward some fair and balanced arguments as to why we should not toss the baby out with the bathwater. America’s history is littered with poor tradesman all too eager to blame thei...

“The land of the free and the home of the brave” is supposed to be the story of America. It is something that every American is supposed to believe as a part of our national anthem. Yet, in the past couple of years, disillusionment has settled in as America becomes the land of regular ma...

While walking my dog one balmy April night, I crossed paths with a man who turned to me and said: “I wanna pin you down and fuck the shit out of you.” As if he has a right to say this. “Asshole!” I screamed. It was the only thing I could think of to say. He had already tur...

Every so often, women reach me wanting to tell their stories. A few years ago, I set up a space for this called Yalla Feminists. In Arabic, the word yalla means come on, let’s go, move it, keep going — and so much more. The idea was to create a platform for those who have ...

Are you safe? Security is an important consideration these days. We live in an often-dangerous world and the constant drumbeat of bad news doesn’t make us feel any safer. Even when actual war and other disasters are thousands of miles away, we can experience fear here at home. In this 2024 ...

Staring at my chest on the train, eyes diverting away when I look up and catch you looking. Quickly looking the other way, pretending that I didn’t just see you looking at me like that, because, as a matter of fact, I don’t want to embarrass you. I’m just too much of a peo...

After the Taliban regained power on August 15, 2021, the previous government’s military personnel were suddenly among the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. Soon, reports emerged of the Taliban targetting former government military personnel, who were imprisoned, assassinated, or vanish...