Superbowl Sunday in the United States tends to be a day that people have parties, eat lots of junk food, and are glued to their flatscreen televisions to watch American football. On Saturday night I went to a friend’s house…
Some of my friends know that I find ducks very amusing. I don’t know why, I just do. A few days ago, George sent me a link to this video. “Maybe if more people had a duck in their life…maybe…
He wrote her a love letter exactly three and one half pages long handwriting slanted sideways, the pen rarely picked up in the furious rush. She decided that a certain percentage of these expressions of undying love are inherently selfish….
The lovely and talented Amy Sahba asked me to be a guest photographer this coming week for one of her blogs that she works on with Leila. The blog, every morn and eve, has photos taken by the photographers in…
One day in February, a few friends decided to take a walk after lunch.  Two young men and three young women took the stairs down the mountain, with no particular goal in mind. February in Haifa is warm during the…
The illustrious Sarah Lonning has a presence on the web. Be impressed. Navid shares music, often with commentary. Brilliant. I’ve been enjoying it very much. That odd fellow known as David Precht launched his site a while ago, and it…
Ingredients: onion, chopped a few slices of ginger, diced a few cloves garlic, diced salt pepper sesame oil soy sauce chicken breast, cut into small pieces peas chopped mustard greens 1. Fry onion, garlic, ginger, salt, and pepper in sesame…
After my last post yesterday regarding the situation of the members of the Baha’i Faith in Iran, six more Baha’is were arrested yesterday. One of them is a former employee of Nobel prize winner Shirin Ebadi, who is a defender…
It has been 9 months since leaders of the Baha’i Faith in Iran were arrested on 14 May 2008. They are still in prison, along with other Baha’is who have been arrested merely because of their beliefs. From a Baha’i…
It is quieter when the world around is blanketed with snow. The house is silent, my family asleep, and I am considering the pros and cons of going to bed in the next half hour. This morning, as I stepped…
My mother got this cool stretchy netting from the deli counter at our grocery store, and told me that this is how they keep the stuffing inside the chickens and such things. I have no idea where to buy such…
she said “it is so easy for you” and I just shook my head but didn’t argue. I’m the storyteller through poems but can’t say the words out loud I’m the dream-maker through glances but can’t make a sound. I…
I can’t watch this happen again, when our feet have only just touched the clouds. Each book I write is a novel about the might never be, and one day in the future I wrote a book about every moment…
The instructions are simple: choose your eleven favorite musical artists, then your favorite song by each, and provide a link (YouTube if possible) so the world can share in the crème de la crème of your musical tastes. This list…
As a Baha’i, I do not celebrate Christmas as Christians do, but as I live in a country that celebrates Christian holidays, I have been surrounded by Christmas…and instead of the usual materialistic images that are evoked by the holiday,…
This weekend is the beginning of winter. To celebrate the freezing cold weather in Chicago, I’m going to share a few things that I have been enjoying that keep my mind off the fact that the ice and snow are…
She held her breath far longer than she meant to. There was order and a certain sense of peace, but the ground was shaky under her feet. Reaching out did no good…the branches tore at her dress and snagged her…
The Chicago Regional Baha’i Conference. (Read this first!!) I am so overwhelmed with the beauty and love of these conferences. I have been struggling to write this blog entry for several days now, wondering how I would put into words…
“The Universal House of Justice, in a letter dated 20 October 2008, announced the convocation of a series of 41 regional conferences over a four-month period. The letter – which marked the midway point of a five-year effort to expand…
This afternoon I experimented with apple cake. I had to make something for a Thanksgiving party, and we had a lot of apples. So I found a recipe in a very old cookbook, and modified it because it was completely…
“The Day of the Covenant Nov. 26th, and the Day of the Ascension, Nov. 28th, anniversaries of the birth and the Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá must be observed by the friends coming together, but work is not prohibited. In other words…
I am in the shadows of trees. infinite, against sun-streaked skies. the shadows are peace, forgiveness… When we whispered our secrets to the quiet spaces under the trees, beyond the hills that we slept under for one hundred years… the…
I’ve noticed some comments over the years from various people on their tests as Bahá’Ãs…that sometimes they feel like they are too different than other members of the community, that they are frustrated with fellow believers, that they believe in…
Manhattan, NYC (taken from the Statue of Liberty) Boston (This one was a little tricky, as I didn’t have a tripod, but I managed to get it.)
Last year I posted a little blurb about how my father, Craig Loehle, wrote a new book. I decided to promote it a little bit more, because I think a lot of people still haven’t heard about it. Description from…
Ingredients: 1 small onion, diced 2 tomatoes, diced a few leaves of fresh basil, chopped salt pepper 1 tsp tumeric 1 clove garlic, diced 1 tsp chili powder (optional) 1 pint heavy cream 2 tablespoons of tomato paste Fry the…
– There needs to be a good balance between spending time with people and being alone. Too much of either and it is possible to go a little bit crazy. – Walking through ivy league campuses makes me feel smarter….
I overheard this conversation at Starbucks this morning: Wife: “What do you want to do today?” Husband: “Shoot myself in the head.” Wife: “Not today, lets do that tomorrow.” Husband: “Ok.”
“Why this great unrest — wars and the rumors of wars, changing of dynasties, earthquakes, cataclysms? The people cry “Peace, peace; when there is no peace!” Are not these the outer sign that man has lost the inner truth?” -Abdu’l-Baha…