A Small Intention

Launching Sadia's Learning Series

On Sunday, I wrote about the guest who stays a month. I also mentioned a new experiment for the month of Ramadan.

Each day for the next 29 days, I’ll share 1 thing I’ve learned. The writing will be short and sweet.

I call this Sadia’s Learning Series, patent pending.

I can’t predict exactly what the series will entail. I admit this is not the first time I’ve written publicly every day. A few years ago, I wrote a 30-day gratitude series that felt like diary entries. Instead, I want to reflect more on topics that might interest my audience, topics like American culture, society, parenting, modernity, paradoxes of group life; love and relationships. All of these topics are sprinkled with my unique point of view as a Muslim mother. I gravitate towards stories of parents.

Like I’ve said before, Ramadan is when the impossible becomes possible.

So as a sleep-deprived, hungry and physically limited worshiper, this seems like a great time to try this experiment. My friends know, I become strang…