Journal

The first thing writers want is to look good. When someone reads their writing, they want the reader to think about how smart and professional the writer is. That is...

Ted Lasso is definitely the best series I have watched so far this year. It now ranks as the fourth best series of my life, behind Better Call Saul at...

The tasks assigned to me during the early days of my second job weren’t any more complex or sensitive than the first; the pay was even lower. Considering a year...

I was still just a teenager when I ‘saw’ what the business world was really about. I was only eleven when the universe symbolically showed me what kind of world...

I am standing at the kitchen sink. Nafiseh says, ‘Put them in the dishwasher, there are too many.’ But for the first time, I want to scrub them one by...

think of bitter honeyand see a landwhose flowershave never been givento any woman 2019

and I knowthat one day your daughterwhenshe reads your war diarywill wonder whyyou’ve glued a lockof cut black hairto the corner of the page that dayI’ll tell herthat her mother...

we had two pistolsone bulletand we were waiting for one of us to fall asleepso the othercould commit suicide November 2018

on the sidewalk we pass each other you pretend not to see and I pretend not to die November 2018

The young man was sitting in the dark forest beside a fire that had been burning since the previous night. It had been some time since his companions had slept...

Hunger had become unbearable. It had been three days since I had touched any food. I had no other choice. I took a sharp knife from the kitchen and went...