Perhaps I exaggerate. As a Muslim married to a Christian, I have the opportunity to celebrate twice as many religious holidays as most people. I suppose it also means I have the opportunity to be twice as sacrilegious when I say I think Thanksgiving may be my favorite holiday. Eid-al-Fitr, the holiday at the end […]
I wrote this a couple weeks ago and sent it to the New York Times as an op-ed. Surprisingly, they did not publish it, and I did not have the energy to send it to anyone else. I instead provide it for you here, which I suppose is the point of having my own blog. […]
Two weeks ago I mentioned the beginning of my charitable donations from the blog — 10% of all blog revenue will be donated to charity.. Between donations from the blog, our 8-year old son, my wife, and me, we’ve now donated to Hurricane Harvey relief twice. Part of that went to H-E-B disaster relief, and part to […]
Today is the perfect day to announce the charitable mission of this blog. If the blog survived a few months and generated some revenue, I wanted to donate a portion of the money to charity (partially inspired by the incredible blogger/doctor, PhysicianOnFire). So 10% of all blog revenue will be donated to charity. Not 10% of […]
This blog went live in April, 2017 — I have yet to explain the blog tagline (“An alt-brown look at medicine, money, faith, and family”), or provide a blog “origin story.” It’s probably taken this long because as in many other things, I take awhile to get to the point. I tend to ramble and […]
This is the second in an intermittent but recurring series. Find all of them here. A few weeks ago I wrote about Future Proofing Your Children — how my wife and I approach our children’s career and education choices. If you haven’t read it yet, go back and read it now. I decided this might as […]