Writing About Ahmad

Writing can be hard. And writing about relationships can be even harder, as I’ve learned in the past few days when I attempted a piece only to stop mid-sentence and shut off my laptop completely. Or maybe I was too focused on whatever we had on Netflix to continue my train of thoughts. You see,…

So, I Haven’t Been Writing Lately

I have to be honest with you: throughout 2015, I would internalize every conversation, every incident, every meeting with a vendor in hopes that I would later use it as material for the blog. Challenging myself to write every single day also made me more attentive to my surroundings and even a better listener. It…

Writer’s Fatigue

I think I’ve already written this post: one where I point out how difficult it is to find a topic to write about every day but how I’ve forced myself to do it anyway because I don’t want to succumb to writer’s block. That’s how bad I feel right now- how devoid of a subject…

Grown Up-ish

I don’t know if this is a regular feeling experienced by newlyweds in my similar situation. But it seems to me that whenever I visit my parents’ home, the home that I have lived in ever since we moved to Beirut, I get really confused. I don’t know how to best describe this feeling, but…

Procrastinating and Data Entry

Data-entry is mind numbing and will probably give me carpal tunnel syndrome in the near future if I’m not too careful. It’s so mindlessly boring that I can’t come up with ideas on what to write for today. Maybe it’ll come to me if I leave the office or when the bulk of papers on…

Housewife In Training

I don’t like it when people come up to me and ask me about my domestic skills: whether I can cook, clean, attend to a house, or do any of the traditional tasks married women are expected to do. Normally these questions are always asked in a way to make me feel bad about myself…

Happiness (in a Hospital)

I had the best sleep I’ve ever had in a long while last night. The kind of sleep where you wake up and think you’ve gone on for so long, but you actually have only slept for an hour. And yet you feel incredibly refreshed and ready to take on the world. And by taking…