Wow, can you belive it? It's been a full year since I started writing about this stuff. Just one little year ago, when my husband was out of the country and I was going stir crazy and staying up way too late at night, I had the wild idea to write about...

The first: My cutie Pakistani husband, yesterday at Thanksgiving, in a conversation with a family friend... M: Mmm! This pumpkin cake is really good! Friend: What is it? M: I just said that this pumpkin cake was good. Friend: Pumpkin what? I didn't...

On the day after Thanksgiving, we always go to a mosque about an hour away from my parent's house. It's the mosque that was closest to M's place when he was going to graduate school, and he's always happy to go back. He likes to revisit his memories...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I am really excited about it. Thanksgiving is my favorite, favorite, favorite holiday. I have always loved every aspect of it - all my favorite foods and all my favorite people, hours and hours of eating and visiting and...

This is how we started and ended our weekend: On Friday, I spent all afternoon making fried vegetable fritters called Pakoras for a party. A party where I was a mere guest, not the host, yet I still made them to bring with me because I am the Pakora...