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We're by now all familiar with unauthorized biographies of rock stars and sleazy politicians, but it's a bit strange to come across one about an intelligent and apparently mild-mannered cartoonist whose most famous act of rebellion was to fight Universal Press Syndicate over the way his panels were laid out in the Sunday section. Bill Watterson, creator of the universally-beloved Calvin and Hobbes, was a perfectionist and a true believer in his art form, yet he evidently hated the fame that his creations brought him, so he laid down his brushes and retired from public life in 1995. Cue Nevin Martell, author of two previous bios (Beck and Dave Matthews), to hunt him down and try to pry some wit and wisdom out of the reclusive cartoonist.
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What else have I been writing? Well I just about completed all the writing for the anthology I will be a part of,which is due to come out soon. But wait, they also want me to write just one more thing. I'm a little busy right now though. They also asked us to write about who we think will win the American election. Anyone else feeling antsy on this election eve? I'm not even American but as its closest neighbour besides Mexico we are feeling the heat and we don't need more global warming. Well some people think that's fake, ahem. You know people who are into redecorating by putting up walls, just saying. Oh and about that anthology, I was in the paper for that along with my writing buddies.

Anyone else writing anything fabulous these days? Got a blog or a book? Let us know. Are you a Nanoer too?

Chttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2016/11/nanowrimo-newb.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-76897128653591261562016-08-08T11:00:00.003-04:002016-08-08T11:00:38.599-04:00Grandma in the shoe for the 6th time. Alhumdullilah.Recently my daughter had a son and so now I have my first grandson, masha Allah. The Uncles are really happy! I kept boys clothes for so long from my son who will turn 10 this month but finally started to get rid of them last year or before that so now this grandson does not have any hand-me-downs! Clothing shortage, lol. But no worries, every baby comes with his own rizq. (provision). May Allah make his a righteous Muslim and grant him jannah. Amin. Chttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2016/08/grandma-in-shoe-for-6th-time.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-65390489672474585752016-06-15T23:31:00.001-04:002016-06-15T23:46:48.729-04:00Ramadan 2016-What's new in the shoe.So as you all know by now I have MS. Alhumdullilah though, I've been able to fast. I recently read an article about a woman who couldn't. MS is a tricky disease it presents differently in different people and it fluctuates in different ways too. Everyone needs to take their own situation into consideration and of course consult their doctor if necessary. Lots of non-Muslim doctors have a knee-jerk reaction to fasting in general so you might want to consider asking a Muslim doctor.

Another great piece of news is that I have started a new dawah initiative; spreading Islam through my Little Free Library. I got this idea 2 years ago and then commissioned a carpenter to do it last year but it took a year for it to get done due to his unforeseen complications. Alhumdullilah its done in time for Ramadan this year and I am so grateful and just tickled pink. Yes its pink :)

A few years ago I gave out boxes for Ramadan in order to do dawah and this year my teenage daughter wanted to do it again so from her own funds she has gone out and purchased more supplies to make it happen again insha Allah.

I've also set up a convert iftar again for the 3rd year in a row. May this help the converts to feel included and helped with our new welcome boxes. (New Muslim Care).

What's new for you this Ramadan? Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2016/06/ramadan-2016-what.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-33982090040775012512016-06-09T12:43:00.002-04:002016-06-09T12:43:59.470-04:00Nobody Cares?So the other day we got to talking about me and what I want to do with my life and I said writing of course and they said you should have a blog, and I told them I already have one. Then they said I can't just write about my life, nobody cares! What???!!! Harsh! Ok, I guess if you want to make money you have to pander to the majority, the trends etc. I'm not the kind of person to follow the lowest common denominator. I could care less about what most people care about lately like hijab tutorials or recipes (I have a few but certainly not obsessed). They were not impressed with my opinion. You see the reason I studied Advertising instead of Journalism is because I wanted to be creative. I didn't want people dictating what I could and could not write about. I like to be free to choose my own topics and present them the way I see fit, regardless if anyone is interested on a large scale. Even if I have to find a niche group that is fine. So I won't make millions I guess but I want to be true to myself in the end. I don't want to be a sellout. Not even for sales. So where does that leave me? Right here, I guess. But my intention is to write books because I love to and because so many people have told me I should, people from all walks of life. I'm sure there are people out there who are looking for a fresh voice and will CARE! Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2016/06/nobody-cares.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-80811343994295758442016-03-31T14:56:00.000-04:002016-03-31T14:56:13.400-04:00Old Grandma in the shoe for the 5th time! Last night my son, my oldest, had a daughter (well my daughter-in-law did). This is their second daughter. For me its my fifth granddaughter. Good thing I don't have to fit them in the shoe too,lol. One day I will have more grandchildren than children which is an obvious thought but still mind-blowing to me. Alhumdullilah, masha Allah. May she grow up to be a righteous Muslimah and be the coolness of her parents eyes and be granted Jannah. Amin.Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2016/03/old-grandma-in-shoe-for-5th-time.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-31583810762411792292016-03-09T10:33:00.000-05:002016-03-09T13:20:26.602-05:00Nothing But Love - Book ReviewZaneefa Zaneer is the author of this new soon-to-be released title. Previously she was the author of Let Me Bloom and Rhythm of Love published in Sinhalese. Her new book is published in English.

Nothing But Love is set in Sri Lanka and follows the story of A.B. as she deals with her past and with her new future as a wife by name only. What has brought her to this point in her life? And what about her new husband, why is he settling for a sham marriage? This book will take you on a roller coaster of emotions dealing with topics like being an orphan,widowhood, wearing niqab,secrets, missed communication and misunderstandings.

This author's style is reminiscent of Umm Zakiyyah's. If you've ever read her books you will understand what I mean. Her books are good,clean,Islamic fiction but try to focus on real life problems.

I really felt the emotions of the characters in this book and enjoyed reading it. The only advice I gave to Zaneefa, was to include more information about Sri Lanka for readers who are not familiar with the country, such as myself. These updates may be in the final release.

If you are looking for a new, Muslimah author to read, then consider the book Nothing But Love, soon to be released on Amazon.com.

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How about you? Have you taken SEO? Have you applied it to your webpage? Or do you do it for a
living?

Update :April 1st. Just completed the course. Its not my cup of tea, still can't see myself doing it for a living but I'm happy to be more knowledgeable now in this area. Its a lot of work that's for sure. Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2016/03/seo-or-no.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-42649671504710341662016-01-31T16:43:00.000-05:002016-01-31T16:43:08.479-05:0010 Things I Hate About Me-Mother-Daughter book review. Years ago I read this book and shared my review with you and now my teenage daughter has read it and written a review on her blog. Please read both and let us know your thoughts. Have you read it? Would you read it? Do you agree with either of us? Have you ever read the same book as your child?

 Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2016/01/10-things-i-hate-about-me-mother.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-68836752626570453532016-01-31T09:49:00.001-05:002016-01-31T09:49:21.846-05:00Swimming in words.I've taken 4 online writing courses now and am feeling overwhelmed. I need to take a breather. But maybe I can't ; still books to read about writing ie memoir writing. Phew.

 Suddenly, also, there are writing courses for Muslims, but at a price. I watched some webinars for Zarinah's course; she wrote Jihad of the Soul which looked interesting and had lots of free tidbits. Ribaat is offering one also which has already started.

 I need to finish off these how-to books and review my courses and then buckle down and actually write something. But wait! I'm supposed to have an intention, oh,whoops? You mean cathartic exercise is not a sufficient goal? I have a lot of self-reflection to do and probably istikharah prayers. Writing is a very serious endeavour and lives on long after you are gone. May Allah purify our intentions and lead us to create a masterpiece for the sake of Allah. Amin.

Have you written a book? What's your advice?Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2016/01/swimming-in-words.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-74417668694894253942016-01-03T22:15:00.000-05:002016-01-03T22:17:15.261-05:00Think outside the GTA box!A little pet peeve I have which was resurrected once again at RIS (Reviving the Islamic Spirit) is, people from GTA (Greater Toronto Area) who are not aware of any cities outside their area! Where are you from they ask, which city are you coming from etc is the question and each time when I tell them their eyes glaze over. I try to help them by telling them how far south it is compared to Toronto and even that it is near the border which leads them to say oh, you live in United States! SubhanAllah can someone please buy a map for the people of the GTA? Or introduce them to Google Maps or get them a GPS or an atlas...anything! When I lived up north and I traveled to the GTA and told them where I was from, they would always say oh, north of Barrie? That was always their absolute cutoff. As for being south of the GTA, well you better not live any further than Kitchener and if you are super lucky then they might know London (Ontario of course!). Beyond that is no man's land, a veritable hinterland. Some of them know Windsor though because if they want to get to the States (where I don't live..sigh) then they have crossed the border there. I think all people in the GTA should be forced to take a geography course of at least Ontario, if not the rest of Canada. For sure I guess they know Ottawa (it is the capital of Canada after all and also right here in Ontario) and Montreal and Vancouver. Not much else exists though. What can we do for our lost sisters and brothers in the GTA? Oh and did I also mention that they think big cities are towns? Yes, you live in a mega city but that doesn't mean that smaller cities in comparison to you, are towns. I guess a town would be a village to them. I dare anyone from the GTA who is reading this or perhaps your friend who knows less than you ahem to take out a map of Ontario and gaze down BELOW Kitchener-Waterloo and then gaze ABOVE Barrie and discover new cities! For those really brave souls, you can also plan a trip somewhere new, outside the GTA box! I dare you!

Chttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2016/01/think-outside-gta-box.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-70528747038535060522015-11-12T21:14:00.004-05:002015-11-12T21:19:17.070-05:00Finding My VoiceTonight was the night I shared my writing with my writing club. It really was the first time I shared my writing out loud with anyone, besides speeches I gave in school so many eons ago.

I had no idea what they would think regarding my topic or my writing talent or lack thereof. All I could do was read and share my outlook on the world and wait and see how they would react to it. It was very silent and then I got to one part and found myself overcome and had to stop. I apologized, but they said that it happens to everyone when they read at one time or another. I felt validated and then the leader of the group finished off my piece for me as I quickly composed myself. In the end they said they liked it and the leader told me to keep writing and that this story was definitely going to be in the anthology. I felt like I had come home. Birds of a feather really do flock together, but sometimes, you just need to find them. Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/11/finding-my-voice.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-52854826523476480072015-11-07T09:11:00.001-05:002015-11-07T09:23:36.662-05:00STOP THE PRESSES: My third daughter has a new blog! Young Muslim Girl in the Shoe.Nope, I didn't come up with the name. She did all this when I wasn't around. Love how it ties into my name choice. So if you want to read about how it feels to be the daughter of the Old Muslim Woman in the Shoe and how it feels to be a half Malay Canadian teen growing up in Canada then go to her blog now! Tell your teen daughters too! Then come back here and tell me what you think ;) Now I have 2 daughters blogging. Check out her blog here.

And if you want to read my other daughter's blog, the oldest one with the 3 kids then go here. In case you forgot, I have 5 daughters and 5 sons. Masha Allah. Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/11/stop-presses-my-third-daughter-has-new.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-84318209760854693092015-11-02T10:34:00.002-05:002015-11-02T10:34:57.327-05:00Writing Club? Write on!So remember when I told you about the woman who told me she had no time for a book club because she was taking 4 Gale Writing courses? Well she also told me about a writing club, well actually two. One in a town about 20 minutes from me which I went to once but then she told me there was actually one in my town and gave me the email. But no one answered my email. So what to do? Then an article appeared in the local paper mentioning a writing club and the one running it was the one I emailed! So I got in contact with the place that runs the club and was told that they were meeting that very night! Did I just write 3 sos? Forgive me. I know that's wrong. Anyway, I grabbed my beautiful writing book that my daughter ; Handmade Beginnings made for me for Eid, and headed on down! I was a little late since I had to do my prayer first but when I arrived I saw that they had a special guest who was telling them how they could get their anthology published finally. I also have to submit a piece too for the book apparently,ahem,so nice of you to ask. Now I have to think about something to write about. You've been following my blog right? In your humble opinion, what would be the best topic for me to write on?
Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/11/writing-club-write-on.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-64061334545087350162015-10-18T10:53:00.001-04:002015-10-18T10:53:58.115-04:00His Book and My book.Now that all of my kids are going to school, I have time to focus on myself. Before September came I signed myself up for an Arabic class. My sole reason for this was to learn the language of the Quran. It is really disappointing to not fully understand what is going on when you are reading Quran or saying your prayers and spending time in the mosque. For example I never know whether they are reciting Quran or saying a dua at the mosque. Feeling like a stranger in your own religion is a very painful thing to go through. So to rectify this I signed up for Arabic1a with Rabata. If you are unfamiliar with them, they are a group of sisters mainly a sister; Anse Tamara (a convert like me) who studied in Syria then started this online portal of Islamic learning. Arabic 101 was too easy for me as I already know my letters and basically how to read so I chose the next level. Its been a few weeks now and there are two classes per week including grammar and vocabulary. At first I was literally getting headaches and the teacher said its normal when learning a new language. It never happened to me before when learning other languages though. This is really intense for me I guess. Another strange thing is that sometimes now I think of random Arabic sentences. This is amazing to me since I only just started learning.

The second kind of learning I am doing kind of fell in my lap! I asked a woman from the mosque if she would be interested in starting a book club and she said she had no time! She said she had just signed up for 4 writing courses. I expressed an interest and she said I could sign up too and that they were free through the library website! My library doesn't offer these courses sadly, but, my old library does in the city I used to live in. I still have my card from that library and our town has privileges with theirs so I signed up. These courses are offered through Gale. The course I am taking now is Writing for Children. I also signed up for 3 other courses. This course has homework just like my Arabic course so I am very busy now with that and like I mentioned in the last post, teaching the kiddies in the mosque. Sadly though we still have no book club at the mosque.

So insha Allah one day with Allah's help I will be able to understand the language of the Quran and also write a book of my own.

A little bonus for my hubby was that when I went to the library I saw a bookmark there advertising another Gale resource; CHILTON. If you are a car enthusiast you will know what I'm talking about but if not it refers to the repair manuals used for cars. He has already used it to fix the power locks in our van. Alhumdullilah.

Book I borrowed from the library (not part of Rabata) which has proved useful.

Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/10/his-book-and-my-book.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-414073472975301902015-10-08T12:00:00.000-04:002015-10-08T12:04:23.686-04:00Omwits got her grooveWhoa! Remember my last post? I was kind of lost? Well, now I seem to have so many activities that I'm overwhelmed but in a good sort of way. Alhumdullilah. One activity I planned but the others fell into my lap! Again alhumdullilah. One thing that fell into my lap was when I signed up my kids to a different islamic/arabic class. At the original one it was 3 hours and now revamped to 5 hours. At that place I had to travel there just like the second one but at the first I was not allowed to access the classes so had to sit in the hall for 3 hours. Contemplating sitting in the hall for an additional 2 hours made me say no way! So I decided to travel the other direction and bring my kids to a school that was only 2 and a half hours long with a break in between and a lovely playground outside. The first place had neither. Funny thing happened though on the way to signing up. I got roped in to be the kindergarten Islamic Studies teacher. So on the spot I had to come up with a lesson. Since it was almost Eid at the time, I figured I'd go with a hajj theme. First I read to the kids about the story of Ibrahim (as) and hajj. Then I got them to colour a picture of the kabba (photocopies from a colouring book). After that I got the kids to build kabbas out of legos/mega blocks which was something I saw on Facebook and since the mosque had these, why not? Whew, that was my first unplanned night. The cherry on the top is that I also get to teach my littlest daughter who is tickled pink and during the first hour I am learning quran. When one door closes, another one opens. Subhanallah.

 Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/10/omwits-got-her-groove.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-36588314074782533482015-08-22T08:44:00.000-04:002015-08-22T08:44:10.360-04:00Muslim Authors Send Me Your Books!I love reading! So far this year I have read 44 books. Its my favourite hobby. I would also love to help promote the books of Muslim Authors here by requesting you send me a copy of your newly published book and I will review it here insha Allah. contact me at omwits at gmail.com Jazakullah khair in advance. Chttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/08/muslim-authors-send-me-your-books.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-29458811551560298222015-08-22T08:27:00.000-04:002015-08-22T08:27:27.088-04:00At Loose EndsIn a few weeks the new school year will begin and all the kids will be gone including my one and only home schooled son who will be starting high school. Last year I tried to upgrade my computer skills and also got a little temporary job. Looking into the future I see a gaping chasm and am filled with uncertainty. Jobs are hard to come by in the first place and with an old diploma and barely any recent experience I am not a top candidate. What's the next step in my life? I have no clue. Other people seem to find their way don't they? Why am I so stuck? I am not feeling inspired either. Feel more like I'm spinning in circles. I need some kind of fresh start. How do I shake things up? Moving away would be great but I can't see it happening in the near future. Somethings got to give right? I hope insha Allah that Allah will send me a sign because I'm clueless. Have you or anyone you've known been in this situation? How did they turn their life around?

Chttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/08/at-loose-ends.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-89385359462261501242015-06-29T00:03:00.000-04:002015-06-29T00:03:06.646-04:00MS and Red DyeFirst of all, take this with a grain of salt. I'm not a health expert but am only sharing what happened to me personally. Maybe by some extraordinary chance someone out there has experienced this too or someone in the science world can tell me if I'm crazy or not. So here it goes. After I got diagnosed with MS I noticed something very strange. When I drank chocolate milk, my legs would get worse. When I ate red licorice or other candies with red dye my legs would get worse. One day after drinking a litre of chocolate milk in one shot (it was a hot day and we were travelling) I could barely walk. I had to stop having these things. I could understand the red dye in the candies could be affecting me but why chocolate milk? White milk didn't harm me and neither did chocolate! I was perplexed so I checked out the ingredients and lo and behold it said colour. Colour? Why colour? Isn't chocolate milk brown because its made with cocoa? Apparently, people don't like their chocolate milk too dark so they add red dye to it to lighten the colour. Who knew? So red dye was really the culprit for me. But why? I knew that red dye was linked to hyperactivity in children but it was causing the opposite in me so to speak. I tried to search for information and came up with zilch! So I am perplexed. All I know is that for me personally, I have to avoid it. I don't know if scientists will ever discover anything about this or not but I have no choice in this matter. I am glad that I figured out it was bothering me. Alhumdullilah. Now whether it is a natural (ie made from a bug) or chemical dye that is affecting me, I still don't know.

Aside from this peculiar aha moment for me, my health regarding my legs is improving as I continue to see a homeopath. Still not cured but I am grateful for my mobility. Now in Ramadan I've noticed my legs seem even better than usual. But I think this is a first as I don't remember such a thing happening last Ramadan.

May Allah bless you all this Ramadan and cure you of any diseases. Amin.

Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/06/ms-and-red-dye.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-45876543686708802512015-06-18T18:05:00.000-04:002015-06-18T18:36:49.527-04:00Ramadan and being yourself.Ramadan Kareem! Its that time of the year again and everywhere I look I see pictures and stories that I can't really relate to as a convert. Maybe we need to fill the gap. Recipes from our own cultures etc and sharing our experiences. I'll start. This morning we got up at 3:15 am for suhoor. Hubby had leftover rice from last night and the boys grabbed bagels and cereal while I made an omelette with tomatoes and cheese and red pepper jelly meanwhile being so tired I hoped I didn't cut myself with the knife, and had water and orange juice with sliced strawberries thrown in. I shared my omelette with my daughter. See this is not 'normal' right? Any other post and you would see the mother got up super early and cooked a big breakfast (when do these women sleep anyway?) and also the food is just 'off' for most people. But this is our life and its about time we converts took our place in the Muslim world er social media. So there you have it! Now please if you are a convert share your suhoor and iftar menus and stories about your Ramadan.

Some people decorate, I never really do but the one thing I do each year is order Ramadan books from the library and read them to my kids. Some people make elaborate menu plans and make fancy meals but we just continue as usual and eat what we always eat. My focus is read Quran and go to any potlucks on Saturdays that are offered in the mosque. The other days are by invitation only. As the only Muslim family in our town we know it will be quiet for us and being 45 minutes away from the mosque we know we won't be praying taraweeh at 11 pm and then driving back. Our lives are different but they're ours. Everyone is different. Vive la difference!

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My,my,my! Right after typing this I went on facebook and found this awesome offer! A free e-book from a convert! Great minds think alike!

Chttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/06/ramadan-and-being-yourself.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-30821707845282439472015-06-01T10:04:00.001-04:002015-06-01T10:04:40.514-04:00Binties! My daughter has launched a new project! See the link here. Aren't they cute? I saw them in real life and was so impressed, masha Allah. Seems my daughter has really inherited her talent for sewing from my grandmother and her paternal grandmother. Check it out and show your kids! Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/06/binties.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-60298851484303407082015-05-26T09:38:00.000-04:002015-05-26T09:38:23.466-04:002 Down, 1 to GoAs of last week I have finished 2 out of 3 computer courses at the employment centre. I learned Microsoft Word and Excel in the first one and then Microsoft Word, Excel and Publisher in the second one. Can I say I love Publisher? Its like what I took back in the day at college when I studied Advertising; a program called PageMaker. Now, with just one left, which will include Access this time, I am almost done. Insha Allah, hope to complete this by Ramadan and then add these skills to my resume. Hopefully, employers will take note. Can't see why they wouldn't ,since every office job seems to need these skills. What's your favourite Microsoft program? Oh I also like Powerpoint which my kids taught me. Chttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/05/2-down-1-to-go.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-83102815458862348972015-05-01T08:57:00.002-04:002015-05-01T08:57:42.613-04:00Mini JobHaven't written anything in awhile as first my daughter got really sick and then I got a mini job and then I got sick too. Whew. Things are back to normal now. Feeling healthy and back to taking my lessons for Microsoft Office. Circumstances have put me far behind though. Insha Allah I hope to finish before Ramadan. So what was my mini job? I was a distributor/ promoter for the MS Society. What did this entail? Well I had to construct these little boxes by folding them together and then bundle MS Walk and Bike cards to be put into it. Then I had to go to various businesses/offices to ask them if they would allow me to leave the boxes on their counter. Doesn't seem like a big deal but my whole day and night was taken up with this work for 8 days and in the middle of it I got a call from school saying my daughter was sick. As well I was doing this during the coldest days of the year; record breaking temperatures that they haven't seen since the 1960's! Was I cold? For sure! But I'm a Northern girl originally so I can take it. Well almost. One day was so bad I had to go home early. This job was interesting because I got to interact with the public and learn a lot about human nature in a short time and also realized how many businesses had been closed down. I went to over 300 place in 3 cities/towns. I got to hear stories about people that had MS which were very sad and once I broke down as I was told about the death of one of them. I mainly did this job for two reasons; to freshen up my resume and to help find a cure for MS which I apparently have. From this job I realized that I really like being independent; no one breathing down my neck and working outdoors (partially) and dealing with people. I wonder now what job I will get in the future. Meanwhile I'll continue working on my computer skills. Have you ever worked for a charity?

Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/05/mini-job.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-26644981450679450112015-02-10T11:24:00.001-05:002015-02-10T11:36:14.255-05:00Skating TestSo its been 4 years since I've had MS or a virus or whatever it is that is causing me my troubles. Since I had this I've been unable to skate which is one of my favourite pastimes because of how it connects me to my kids. I'm either teaching them how to skate or enjoying time at the rink with them but no more. For the past few years I've had to sit in the bleachers and ....just watch. Last year I decided to give it a whirl. I went around the rink while holding onto the side but my legs collapsed and my teenage daughter had to bring me back to my seat. This year after going to a homeopath for a year I thought I would try it again. This time I did not collapse but it was still impossible for me to skate. I held onto the sides again and took breaks in the side seats and completed one round and gave up. I'm sure everyone thought I was an immigrant who didn't know how to skate instead of a convert who had been skating for 40 yrs and now had MS or whatever I have. Its depressing but I am grateful for all the years I had to skate and know many people have never had the chance due to worse situations than me like the woman in the wheelchair that I see there often. I am in no way allowed to complain and as Muslims we must not. What saddens me is being cut off from my kids. I wave to them through the window/plexiglass and I help them tie up their skates and take pictures but its not the same. I long one day to skate again with my kids. I am thankful that my youngest quickly learned to skate though with my teen daughter. I am grateful for older kids to take my place but still melancholic. It would also be nice if I knew anyone there to pass the time with as well but for one and half hours each week I peer through the window and enjoy the bliss that is mine; children with the ability and chance to skate for free every week. Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/02/skating-test.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-60362426215873944512015-01-17T09:40:00.002-05:002015-01-17T09:40:38.390-05:00The Country who reads my blog the most!I checked out my stats and was expecting that my own Country, Canada, would be the one who reads my blog the most but its not! Can you guess? My second guess would have been Malaysia since I write about that all the time but nope. So then you could guess USA since they are close or a Muslim country right? Nope, again! Shockingly, its the Czech Republic! What? I was so surprised! So to all of you out there thanks for reading my blog and leave me a little note about why you as a Czechoslovakian read my blog, please. I'm really curious.

Read about Czechoslovakia here. Chttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-country-who-reads-my-blog-most.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795972256750121659.post-43671682145370719542015-01-17T09:26:00.000-05:002015-01-17T09:26:06.180-05:00Is Muslim blogging dying?I looked at my blogroll and some people haven't blogged for 1, 2,3,4 or even 5 years! What's happening to Muslim bloggers? Is blogging dying in general? I know I'm not the most frequent blogger but come on, I don't go for years without blogging! What's up? Did everyone move on?

What kind of blogs do you read? What makes you come back? Are you sad when bloggers disappear? Are you a blogger who has stopped blogging?

Share your thoughts, preferably this year. Better yet, how about today!Chttp://email@example.com://oldmuslimwomanintheshoe.blogspot.com/2015/01/is-muslim-blogging-dying.html


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I was surprised that Saul made such an amateur mistake to go into that bathroom.
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One thing I find hard to believe is that Carrie goes from Case Officer to openly bi-polar Case Officer to psychotic breakdown to Pakistan Station Chief in a very short time.
However, now that I think about it was the breakdown & subsequent commitment actually a ruse/undercover assignment?
In any event, this season's been fantastic. I just watched this past week's episode and am aching for more. Don't want to wait two weeks!


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South Carolina is one of a dozen states in line to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that, if passed, would allow two-thirds of states to repeal a federal law.
South Carolina is one of a dozen states in line to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that, if passed, would allow two-thirds of states to repeal a federal law.
Support for the Repeal Amendment has grown out of a desire to strike down President Barack Obama's health care reform. If it survives the difficult approval process, it would become this country's 28th Amendment.
The amendment has been introduced in Congress and has the support of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. Leading the charge in South Carolina is state House Speaker Bobby Harrell, R-Charleston.
"The problem we have is a runaway Congress," Harrell said. "We have to return power to the states."
Harrell plans to introduce a bill supporting the Repeal Amendment next week, according to his office. The speaker included the bill in the state House Republicans' 2011-12 legislative agenda, which was unveiled Thursday in Columbia.
The amendment would allow two-thirds (34) of states to repeal federal law. Critics say the amendment is self-defeating, because states do not then have the power to handle the administrative and financial fallout of repealing laws.
To amend the U.S. Constitution, two-thirds of both houses of Congress must vote to approve the amendment, and then it must be ratified by three-fourths (38) of all states. Alternatively, the Constitution allows two-thirds of states to call a constitutional convention — which, despite attempts, hasn't happened since 1787.
Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Bill Howell, one of the chief proponents of the amendment, has introduced a bill in his state's Legislature supporting the measure. Harrell said he has had numerous phone conversations with Howell about the matter.
"We're trying to cause a grassroots, countrywide movement to make change," Harrell said. "This is a mammoth undertaking."
Clemson University political science professor Dave Woodard said state legislatures that introduce or pass bills supporting the constitutional amendment are anticipating it getting the necessary support in Congress, and trying to build momentum in their respective congressional delegations. If Congress approves the amendment, Woodard said, votes already taken by the states would be binding.
Political observers see little chance of the amendment passing, despite support from tea party groups around the country. Woodard cited attempts to amend the Constitution to define marriage as the union between one man and one woman, which he said is more likely to pass but still hasn't gotten very far in the process.
Still, "there's a tendency to underestimate how deep the animosity is in this movement. And this shows how deep it is," Woodard said. "When you're coming to this level, you're really getting... really deeply concerned."
Harrell has run his own gamut with tea parties, which tried late last year to pressure state lawmakers into electing someone else speaker. Through the process, Harrell met with Upstate and Lowcountry tea party organizations and their representatives.
"They're probably very well aware of what the tea party can do in election cycles," said Jonathon Hill, chairman of the Upcountry Coalition of Conservative Organizations. "(Harrell) understands where people are, and part of his desire to maintain his power is to give us some things that we want. I hope it's not all talk. I look at results. I hope he follows through."
Hill's group includes 18 tea party and similar organizations in Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, Laurens and Oconee counties.
The Repeal Amendment, Hill said, "is borne out of people's general dissatisfaction and getting fed up with the complete overstepping of the federal government on states' rights. I think a lot of state legislatures would probably welcome that."


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Nov 20, 2013
From Android to desktop: Google Now feature coming to browsersInternet major Google is adding new features to its popular services like search page, maps and youtube to provide more personalised information especially related to day to day lives of its users.
Nov 19, 2013
Newly declassified surveillance documents released by Obama adminAnother release of declassified government surveillance documents is under way as part of an ongoing civil liberties lawsuit.
Aug 02, 2013
Coming soon: A movie on the life of Bradley ManningOnly one day after his conviction, the rights to Denver Nicks' book Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History have been brought by filmmaker Alex Gibney and producer Marc Shmuger
Jul 30, 2013
Bradley Manning verdict could test US notion of aiding enemyProsecutors have tried to prove Manning had "a general evil intent" and knew the classified material would be seen by al-Qaida. Legal experts said an aiding-the- enemy conviction could set a precedent because Manning did not give the classified material to them.
Jul 30, 2013
What will be the fallout from the Manning-WikiLeaks case?Tuesday's verdict means Pfc. Bradley Manning could face 20 years to life in prison for the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history. Here is some other fallout from the case
Jul 12, 2013
Read the email Edward Snowden sent to human rights groupsHuman Rights Watch representative Tanya Lokshina posted the text of the email purported to be from Snowden on her Facebook page, which invited her and other representatives to a meeting at Moscow airport
Jul 12, 2013
Snowden requests meeting with human rights groups in MoscowFormer intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden asked to meet human rights groups at a Moscow airport on Friday to discuss what he called "threatening behaviour" by the United States to prevent him gaining asylum
Jul 10, 2013
India's Central Monitoring System: Security can't come at cost of privacyThe limited information available about the central monistoring system project has raised serious concerns about its need and the consequences of government snooping on such a mass scale.
Jul 03, 2013
Snowden rightfully charged in courts, says USRejecting allegations of political vendetta, the US has said Edward Snowden is rightfully charged by its courts for espionage and leaking classified information, and Washington is making diplomatic efforts to ensure he is brought back to face those charges
Jun 27, 2013
We will review Snowden's asylum plea responsibly: EcuadorEcuador has said that it would "responsibly" review the asylum request of former CIA operative Edward Snowden and asked the US to argue its case for his extradition


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I'm planning a trip in Spain with a friend in late August around the 23rd. I understand it will be quite hot and busy with tourists, however this is the only time I can go on holidays. How unbearable will the temperatures be late August for Granada and Seville?
Can you please review the number of days at each location and confirm if the number of days in each place is fine or needs amending.
* fly into Barcelona or Madrid for 1 night
* fly to Majorca for 3 nights
* fly to Granada for 3 nights
* catch a train to Seville for 3 nights
* fly to Barcelona or Madrid for 1 night to catch flight home
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You are visiting the hottest parts of Spain but I think you know that. I think I would try to make more time in Barcelona if possible. You might fly into Barcelona and go directly to Seville by connecting flight. Spend 3 nights there, spend 2 nights in Granada, go to Majorca for 3 nights and back to Barcelona for your last 3 nights. Fly home from Barcelona. Don't bother with Madrid since you don't plan to stay there.
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mamcalice has given you great advice.
Last 16 years statistics for final week of August in Sevilla says average daily highs at 93F and night lows at 66F.
Great intro to Sevilla: http://www.exploreseville.com/
And Barcelona is a fabulous city, excellent food, world class architecture, wonderful parks (Montjuic, Ciutadella etc. etc), sights and a long and vibrant city beach with all kinds of people and activities and loads of local feel tapas bars, restaurants and cafés in the just inland small, triangle Barceloneta neighbourhood. http://www.barcelonaturisme.com/
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thanks mamcalice...
I have already been to Barcelona, Ibiza and San Sebastian on previous holidays.
Are there any other areas of Spain which will be bearable weather wise in August as an alternative to Seville and Granada?
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Yes, the North, Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, all of them are beautiful.
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Over the course of 2014, America seemed to reawaken to one of its oldest preoccupations: the reality of how race is lived in the United States, and in particular the many stark disparities that persist between black and white people.
The continued existence of racial inequality in the United States was not exactly news – but the shocking deaths of a series of unarmed black men at the hands of the police made the issue impossible to ignore. The killing of Eric Garner, who was wrestled to the ground and choked to death by police on a New York City sidewalk in July 2014, confronted the public with a disturbing question: how was it possible that a black man could be killed for the trifling infraction of selling loose cigarettes? Garner's dying words – "I can't breathe†– captured on video, would soon become the rallying cry of a nascent movement, Black Lives Matter.
When Michael Brown was killed by a policeman the following month, enormous protests erupted, and the attention of the entire country – and much of the world – turned to Ferguson, Missouri. Television news was filled with scenes of mostly black protesters surrounded by heavily armoured riot police, evoking images from an era that American liberals liked to believe was long in the past.
Brown's death, in the heat of the summer, produced a huge swell of anger and a fierce debate, but a tentative conclusion soon emerged: though his death had first seemed disturbing, many came to see him as a flawed victim. Brown had not led an unblemished life: he had shoplifted minutes before his demise, he had smoked pot, and investigators insisted that he had resisted arrest, tussling with the policeman who shot him. He was "no angelâ€, in the uncharitable words of a New York Times story published two weeks after his death. This tone could be heard in much of the coverage of Brown's killing and the ensuing protests in Ferguson – and not just at that newspaper. What this tone suggested was that a black person who died at the hands of police needed to have been perfect, and utterly blameless, to justify outrage at their death and national attention to the problem.
But such a case came along soon enough, when police officers in Cleveland, Ohio, encountered Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy playing with a toy gun on a deserted playground. What ensued was captured on video, otherwise many would have dismissed an objective account of the incident as the product of fevered black imagination. A white officer is seen jumping out of his car and without pausing even to exchange words, immediately opening fire, leaving the child dead. Here, for all those who had demanded it, was the immaculate victim. A grave problem, it seemed, could no longer be denied.
By late 2014, newspapers and TV networks had begun to dedicate substantial time to the subject of excessive force routinely used by police against black people, and to the protest movement that grew in the wake of these incidents. Television news channels – even the very conservative Fox News – devoted hours of their nightly broadcasts to discussions of this problem, often heated, and to a consideration of its roots. Not coincidentally, minority voices suddenly proliferated on the air.
Having rediscovered the crisis of American race relations, there were reasons to hope that the media might make the colour line, as the eminent early-20th-century black American intellectual WEB Dubois famously called it, the focus of even deeper and more serious ongoing attention. But the attention of US journalism – and along with it, the attention of the nation – soon drifted away. What happened?
The easy part of the answer is that 2015 marked the start of a seemingly endless season of obsessive American political coverage, in the long run-up to the 2016 presidential election. Journalists descended on Baltimore to cover the protests over the death of Freddie Gray in April, but in the months that followed, reporters started to turn their focus to places such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where Republican candidates were already visiting county fairs and meeting voters in greasy spoons.
But what was less predictable, and much more striking, was the brazen way that the Republican candidates competed in pandering to white voters using racial themes. Perhaps they sensed that, after two terms under Barack Obama, many Republican primary voters were incensed by the appearance of cracks in what might be called the hegemony of whiteness. Donald Trump led the way, and provided the most famous examples – describing immigrants from Mexico as criminals and rapists, proposing to ban Muslims from entering the country – but he was far from alone.
Only months after the country had begun a tentative interrogation of its history of racism, that had all been forgotten. Early on, Trump was criticised for the unusual crudeness of his racial appeals, but by the time the candidate had eliminated the last of his Republican rivals, in early May, the media seemed inured to Trump's rhetoric. But even as the US media has devoted vast time and resources to covering every twist and turn of the primary campaigns, almost none of this journalism has posed deeper questions about the social pathology of racism that makes nativist demagoguery so appealing to white voters. Instead, this fact is simply taken for granted – much like the persistent disparity in rates of unemployment and incarceration between black and white people, or the staggering gap in household wealth between the races. One could say much the same about the crude contempt for Barack Obama that has become a powerful undercurrent in Republican politics over the last seven years.
With Trump all but certain to be the Republican nominee, all signs point towards a tense and extraordinarily racialised campaign – and one that will pose a severe test for American journalism, which has been as beset by the crisis of race as the society it claims to rigorously examine.
The intersection between America's age-old race problem and the crisis of race in journalism takes two forms. The first is a simple failure of integration: the news organisations that have traditionally comprised "mainstream†journalism have done little to welcome or encourage African-Americans, who are substantially underrepresented by comparison to their numbers in the overall population. This problem is obvious to anyone who cares to look – and it has become sufficiently embarrassing for a number of publications to make sporadic but ultimately ineffectual efforts to redress it. As soon as one or two hires are made, attention inevitably shifts elsewhere, much as the focus of the press drifted away from racial bias in the criminal justice system once a whiff of the campaign season could be sensed in the air.
But the second and more subtle issue is a persistent problem of typecasting – a deeply embedded view that regards certain topics as "black†and the rest as "whiteâ€. Those black people who make their way into the business are heavily concentrated in stereotypical roles. This has meant sport, entertainment and especially what is euphemistically called urban affairs, often meaning reporting on black people. By contrast, there are very few black journalists writing about politics and national security, international news, big business, culture (as opposed to entertainment) or science and technology – they are essentially absent from large swaths of coverage, and even more sparsely represented among the ranks of editors. This is not a trivial matter, or a subject of concern solely to journalists: the overwhelming whiteness of the media strongly but silently conditions how Americans understand their own country and the rest of the world.
These problems are not new, and they are not unknown: they have been confirmed by survey after survey measuring diversity in the country's newsrooms and on its airwaves, but this is not how I discovered them. The lessons I received in the matter all came through direct experience, inside what many consider America's foremost news organisation.
When I first arrived at the New York Times in 1986, fresh from freelancing in West Africa, I was as eager as anyone can possibly imagine – but more than a little bit nervous about trying to break into the big time of American journalism at the age of 27, as a new father working in a city I had never lived in before. I had never worked in a newsroom; I had never even worked under the close supervision of editors. So there was much to learn. I would have been lying if I had said I was looking forward to covering what seemed to me mundane things such as cops and courts – but, looking back, there is no doubt that my three years in New York gave me an education in journalism I could not have received anywhere else.
This was not the only invaluable education I received in New York – far from it. As an idealistic young black man there was a whole universe of knowledge to be acquired about how this industry handles the question of race in America, and this was vital to one's survival. One quickly learned that the newsroom was a place rife with powerful networks, which nurtured and anointed a few golden boys – and occasionally, although much less frequently back then, golden girls. These networks took shape along lines of educational pedigree, social status and religion – all categories that helped make it appear that race was not relevant. Indeed, to the casual onlooker it all passed for merit.
Some of my first lessons came while paying my dues, working weekends in the nearly-empty newsroom, where I was asked to monitor the police blotter for noteworthy crimes. Early on, I was bluntly reproached by an editor for bringing the uptown murder of a black person by another black person to his attention, as if I didn't know that these were "penny crimesâ€, in his words, meaning things that could never rise to the level of interest of New York Times readers on a Sunday. If a black man had killed a white man, or if there was white-on-white murder, he explained, this, of course, would be a different matter.
This was not the only kind of race logic common in the business, as I was just discovering at a place that was regarded – and regarded itself – as a bastion of liberalism. I had watched in surprise one winter evening, when a power outage in the Bronx sent editors casting about the cavernous old newsroom for black reporters, something that immediately made painfully clear how few of us there were. In a cast of hundreds, it seemed that it would not take much more than two hands to count us on. It was freely said that white reporters were uncomfortable venturing to that part of the city in the dark – the first of many times I would hear such thinking in my career. These were the high-crime, crack cocaine years, and so off black reporters were sent, based on the theory that even dressed in business suits and ties, as nearly all the staff were in that era, we would be safer and more comfortable in the dark of a ghetto.
Around that same time, I was sent to cover the aftermath of a huge shootout in the Bronx between a notorious drug dealer, Larry Davis, and the police, in which the suspect briefly escaped. My reward, after Davis was captured, was being assigned to cover one of his trials, which an editor advised me not to take too seriously, regarding it as a foregone conclusion – despite Davis hiring a famous civil rights attorney, William Kunstler, who tied the prosecution up in knots by emphasising what most black people intuitively knew or suspected: a rich history of police abuse and procedural irregularities. After this, I was briefly assigned something called "the race beatâ€, which was basically intended to mean covering black civil rights complaints against the city in that highly polarised era. This was in keeping with perhaps the oldest tradition in the business, since its integration began tentatively in the 1960s: let black people cover black topics, which were perceived as impenetrable, if not outright dangerous.
In those days, a tiny coterie of black reporters often huddled together to fume over coverage of the 1988 presidential race by an all-white political staff, whose dismissive treatment of Jesse Jackson, the sole black candidate, often bordered on insulting – repeatedly describing him with code words such as "street smartâ€. Early one morning, a pair of black colleagues successfully goaded me into challenging the brilliant and deadly serious managing editor, Joseph Lelyveld – then the second-most-powerful person in the newsroom – over one story's description of Jackson as "flamboyantâ€, which seemed to us gratuitously pejorative. Approaching Lelyveld to challenge him was as forbidding as seeking an audience with the Wizard of Oz. My friends stood in the wings, watching as the two of us, side by side, looked at the definition of "flamboyant†in a giant tabletop dictionary, which led Lelyveld to admit our complaint was correct.
My big break came when I was sent on a series of short-term deployments to cover a series of military coups and popular uprisings in Haiti – on the same logic that had seen black reporters dispatched to cover the Bronx. There was a white correspondent covering Haiti at the time, who was very good at gaining access to diplomats and political sources, but seemed to shun the frequently chaotic events in the streets, which were filled with angry and presumably dangerous black protesters.
I had been lobbying my editors for nearly three years for a full-time foreign assignment of my own, enrolling in Spanish classes, reading histories of India, and visiting Mexico. When the call came to tell me I had finally been named as the fourth black foreign correspondent in the long history of the newspaper, it was to inform me that I was being sent to cover the Caribbean. This was neither what I had hoped for nor imagined, but it was an innovation of sorts; the traditional move had been to send people like us to Africa.
Black colleagues on the staff were proud of me nonetheless, so much so that a fistfight nearly broke out when one of them, a friend named Don Terry, overheard a white reporter who was roughly our age grumbling openly that I had unjustly benefited from affirmative action. This was a standard complaint, a claim that filled the air with every word of our advancement: never mind that I had performed well enough in Haiti to repeatedly win in-house prizes at the paper, or that I spoke excellent French and was already becoming passably fluent in Creole. By this time, I was far enough along in my apprenticeship so as not be surprised by such sentiments.
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