I recently said I would be posting once/week, generally on a Wednesday. In an effort to keep you on your toes, I did not post on Wednesday. I did make a post on Monday of this week — that’ll be it for the week. I am a couple weeks into this and am starting to get a sense of […]
Are You Bi-Religious? As a two-religion household (Bi-religious? Multi-religious? Inter-religious? Not sure of the proper term), we celebrate twice as many religious holidays as most families. Eid-al-Fitr, Eid-al-Adha, Christmas, and Easter, are a part of our household vernacular. Despite growing up in a Muslim household, I heard a great deal about Christmas. It was impossible […]
I recently ran the least successful twitter poll ever, an opportunity to pick the next post that would appear on the blog. Apparently none of my 11 followers either noticed or cared. Lesson learned. Well, I assume there is a lesson to be learned. The lesson for you, the reader, is to follow me at twitter.com/RogueDadMD. Instead of […]
I’m Not a Do-It-Yourself’er I started doing my own taxes after graduating medical school. Prior to that my income was low enough and my return easy enough that my parents did my taxes along with theirs and I never paid a whit of attention to the process. However suddenly I was a grown-up – within […]
The Beginning This is the first ever blog post. I’ve added made slight formatting changes since its original publication, but it is otherwise unchanged. Like most second-generation Pakistani-American Muslims, I went through a John Denver phase in college. Okay, maybe that phase was limited to those of us with a friend/roommate who loved John Denver […]