https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability?language=en Seeing my blog get views from different countries, such as Germany, is fantastic! Thank you for being here and for making me feel so special. I wrote an entire Wednesday blog on the topic of "what can I do less of," but I decided against posting it. It sounded bitter, negative, and repetitive. I…
OK, so what do I want for my blog? I want to organize it so that each story starts from the bottom upIt was just another day at the toy store when a young lady walked in browsing the store. She didn’t want to purchase anything but just wanted to browse. We ended up bonding…
Decembers are always hard. For me, it is a month of nostalgia for the past year and for previous years. Since the month started, my own mortality has been creeping into my mind. The mortality of the people I hold dear too. Another year has gone by. It is only the first week of December,…
Happy Thanksgiving Week Today I am writing with a heavy heart. The news about the white ranger aka Tommy aka Jason David Frank passing has made me so incredibly emotional. I grew up with four older brothers and a ton of boy cousins. We would watch Power Rangers all the time. I remember that Tommy…
Halloween awesomeness It is November. We have two months left in 2022. Another year has flown by. This is the second week of my new position. So far, it has been mellow. There is not much to do yet. I have no students. Hopefully, next week. It is a new program for the school district…
Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, the hadith outlines the story of a Bedouin man who was leaving his camel without tying it. The Prophet (PBUH) asked him “Why don't you tie down your camel?” The Bedouin answered, “I put my trust in Allah.” The Prophet then replied, “Tie your camel first and then put your trust in…
Wow, ICF was finally coming to an end. Tal, one of the assistants, threw a prop which she called morp. Prom spelled backward is morp. Stephanya Morp! I didn't attend prom back in high school so I was excited. Tal's house was ten minutes from my place. It was going to be an 80s theme…
Beauty After a ten-day heat wave, Los Angeles finally is getting some rain. Frshta, sits at a local cafe in Sherman Oaks. She enjoys this outdoor care with stream lights dangling from the ceiling but had stopped coming. On one particular visit a couple months ago, she headed over to use the loo ( the…
I don’t love the way I look but I thought I’d take a photo at work for memories. Here is Frshta the charming tired server. I was closing server tonight at the restaurant. I am usually first off but my coworker wasn't feeling good. It isn't that much of a difference between being first off…
Power morphicon I had a dream about my brother, Yama, a couple of days ago. It was such a strange dream. Somedays, it makes me really sad the thought of never seeing my family again. What I mean is in the afterlife. What if we never see each other again and none of this matters?…
The Frshta Show 