Nowruz Mobarak! (Happy Persian New Year!)
Dear Reader, I was born and raised in Orlando to a working class family of immigrants from Iran. One of the most important holidays for my family is Nowruz, the Persian New Year, which falls each year on the spring equinox. Today marks that day, and from my family to...
Power In Our Pain
There is power to find in our pain. I learned that when I lost my Mom to cancer in 2004, and I felt it again in 2016 when 49 people were murdered at Pulse nightclub, once more at the hands of an assault rifle.