Category: Life
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ON : Happiness…
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? Do we really need something to be happy? It sounds like a simple question, but the more I sit with it, the more it makes me pause. Because when I look at my days, they are never perfectly arranged. There are always small interruptions, small delays,…
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Slightly Out of Place
It started like any ordinary day. I put a load of laundry into the washing machine and went back to the kitchen to prepare lunch. Nothing special, just the quiet rhythm of the house moving around me. The machine was set to a sports cycle, about an hour, so I let it run without thinking…
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ON : The work I would do anyway.
What job would you do for free? Before answering, it helps to pause on the word job. A job, by definition, is something we are paid to do. So if we take away the payment, what remains is simply work we choose to give, freely, and often more intentionally. If I reframe the question that…
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The Quiet Week
Not every week gives you something to write about. Some pass quietly, without asking for attention. This was one of them. My husband was away on a business trip, so the rhythm of the house shifted a little. I drove my son back and forth between school and his hockey training, the same roads, the…
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ON : At five, did I even know ?
When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? To be honest, I don’t remember what I wanted to be when I was five. I think that question only started to make sense to me much later, around middle school. Back then, I said I wanted to be an air…
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It was never Paris
After that week, there was still some tension between us. When my husband came home from his trip, I waited until the house was quiet and then told him I was sorry for upsetting him. Not because I thought I was wrong to feel what I felt, but because I wanted us to talk calmly.…
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So… Paris ?
Tonight my husband and I went to a concert at the opera house in town. It was his birthday gift for me: a symphony and choir performance. Beautiful music, elegant audience, everyone sitting quietly and behaving exactly as one should in an opera house. It reminds me of another concert. A concert I once wanted…
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The Dining Table
Life today moves quickly. Parents are busy, children are busy, and time together often becomes limited. Many families feel that meaningful conversations with their children happen less and less as everyone follows their own schedule. When my children were young, my husband travelled for work almost every week, from Monday to Friday. Most of the…
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The Last Salaam
On 29 January 2005, I got married. At that time, my father was already in the final stage of lung cancer. He used to joke with me about who would go first. It sounded light, almost playful, but we both understood what was behind it. His body was weakening, yet life was still moving forward…
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When I Stopped Fixing and Started Trusting
There was a time when my daughter’s frustration unsettled me more than I expected. It usually began with something ordinary. Too much homework. Not enough time. A teacher who felt unfair. She would speak from pressure, and I would respond from efficiency. I saw adjustments immediately. Better planning. Fewer distractions. Earlier starts. The advice was…