By Nadia Al-Samarrie I have always felt that Valentine’s is a day to say, “I love you,” to my friends and family. I deliver this message with a text, a quick face-time chat, email, or snail mail-whatever medium I know the recipients use to communicate. The clichéd Valentine’s dinner, gifts, flowers, chocolate, and jewelry are…
By Nadia Al-Samarrie COVID 19 has become a national mental health issue. Isolation and fear leave us at the mercy of our negative closed-loop thoughts. Worst of all, staying fearful affects our psychological and physical well-being. Have you had days where you did not want to get out of bed? Why bother? I have. Some…
I am traveling in Europe to four cities in the next three weeks. Although I had no plans to go to Italy, a good friend had to cancel her flight to meet me in London. This was before her small town in Italy is identified as one of the cities that has a travel ban.
I recently went on a 7.8-mile trek to a beautiful place in Hood Mountain, nestled in the hills of Santa Rosa California. Overlooking a breath-taking view of Kenwood, Napa and Sonoma County, I felt as if I was floating in the sky on a suspended rock, 2,100 feet above sea level.
I spent 4th of July in San Francisco this year. A departure from my country life where fireworks are illegal. The locals decided to put on a fire show right in the intersection of a street with a two-way traffic light, only 100 feet away from my front door. Starting at 7:30 pm fireworks began going off all around us till 2:00 in the morning.