Tag: life stories
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Cooking with The Blind Hijabi!
People are always asking how I do things. This week, I show you how I cook…
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Makeup and Catch Up with The Blind Hijabi!
This week, I do the “put on makeup during story time” trend and catch you up on where I’ve been the last year…
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The Blind Hijabi is BACK! (And Internet Famous?!)
All we did was go and watch a taping of our favorite late night show. We didn’t expect to become internet famous overnight because of it!
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An Immigrant’s Thanksgiving
Originally posted on my LinkedIn on November 24, 2022. Edited on November 23, 2023. I arrived in the United States in 1986 at age seven. I had never heard of the word “turkey” before, and had no idea it was a chicken-like bird you could eat! My first Thanksgiving was not particularly memorable in Tampa,…
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Why Not “The Blind Hijabi?”
When I started this journey, people reached out to express thought-provoking reactions to the title I had chosen for the website and blog…
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The Kindness of Perfect Strangers
I want to share something universal I have learned nearly every time I pick up and move.
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A Round of Corn Hole
Earlier this Spring, my husband and I spent a week in a small, sleepy town in the middle of Virginia with a population of just over 3,000. We had gone for work, but I ended up learning a few lessons about leisure and life there, which can occasionally include a round of Corn Hole …
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Uncertainty: The Only Constant in My Life
I never know quite what’s over the hill or around the next bend! My relationship with uncertainty cannot be helped…
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How to Be… You?
Some of what I’ll share is what I myself struggle to do in the moment, still work to emulate, and have not perfected in myself. So let’s try together!
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When Life Throws You Lemons…
This last week threw me a lot of complicated lemons…
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