I posted some of the photos of my ancestors on Facebook - go over and have a look if you like! I have more of some people on Ancestry.com - if you want to view those, you'd have to let me know and I could add you to my profile.

Mom, dad and I saw a neat bird yesterday - the belted kingfisher. It was perched on a wire over Fountain Creek on Nevada Ave. in downtown Colorado Springs.

Eid Ghadeer As a revert to Islam, Eid Ghadeer is the one Eid that always has made the most sense to me and been the most significant in my worldview. Part of me has found Eid ul Fitr tempered by the loss of the holy days of the month of Ramadhan, and...

I'm finding this whole Climategate thing interesting. Science is not effective when politics or other factors are leading the so-called scientists to be 'trying' to get their data to show what they already believe should be happening, but the data...

Ten years ago, I was blessed to go for hajj. Unlike some people who think and prepare for a lifetime before going, my hajj came to me unanticipated. I had found Islam less than five years prior, and I was just out of college without any savings to...