I may not be a religious person, but I am a spiritual soul, one who believes – as Paulo Coelho’s main character Santiago discovers on his journey in The Alchemist (a must read!) – that the universe conspires to help you fulfill your destiny. Over the past month or so, I’ve gotten to know Father Byrum, a [...]
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law school dropout
I’m a quitter. There, I said it. In our society, we’re taught to not give up, to finish what we’ve started, to resist the urge to walk away. Anything to the contrary is considered failure. And yet, despite the fact that I’ve quit some important things in life, I don’t feel like a failure. If anything, [...]
a new identity
When I was a little girl, I feared death. I’m not sure where this fear came from, but I think it may have originated when my uncle, who was a young man at the time, died unexpectedly when I was eight. Regardless of its origins, it was a fear that stayed with me for a [...]
what’s in a name?
I can always tell when telemarketers call. Not because I have some sort of sophisticated technology like caller ID or a sixth sense like ESP, but because they always make the same mistake. They ask for Shahida Amin. For those who don’t know, Shahida is my legal name… one that I was given at birth [...]
the business shower
“I have big news,” I told my friend Ken over IM a couple of months ago. Generally, when you say that to people, they think you’re either getting married or having a baby (although I’m nowhere close to doing either!). So I told him that I was, in fact, giving birth… to a business, not [...]