My site, originally created as a place to lay out my thoughts so I could hear them echo back, became a job and a burden at least a year ago. That’s never what I wanted for myself, never what I imagined anyway.
Since the beginning I made my writing a tedious effort, more so than it […]

Monday night I came home from being out of town and when I opened the door to my apartment I saw basically what I expected…a mess! I knew it would be there because I have one room mate (Special K) who’s a bitter and angry person who suddenly decided that cleaning up after himself was […]

Yesterday 9 young men were killed in Lebanon as they protested power outages in their predominately Shi’a sector of south Beirut. Snipers shot down on them from roof tops as they protested in their own neighborhood. One of the 9 Killed was my close friends cousin, Yousef Mustafa Shukir, who was shot through the leg […]

Where the hell have I been? Thats a fair question. It feels like I’ve been gone forever and relative to my nightly writing habits…I have!
So whats the story? Its complicated and wild but basically I was in California visiting friends. My friend there decided it would be a good idea […]

I’m now back from what’s probably been my longest absence since starting this site. It wasnt intentional or planned, just a consequence of circumstances. Life has been hectic lately, everyday I come home late at night and ready to write , before you know it I’m falling asleep on my key board.
You might be thinking, […]

One summer some friends and I decided to go to Agami, a beach town just outside of Alexandria and a couple hours northwest of Cairo. I’ve been to Agami several times and its fair to say, me and her share a love/hate relationship.
First of all we usually get there on a Thursday or Friday night […]