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August 2018

August 31, 2018

Eighteen

When we drove home (my parents’ home still felt like home to me, even though...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

Guardianship and the Rights of Adulthood

With less then six months to his 18th birthday, the timetable I had laid out...

March 06, 2018

The Bro Hug

We call it the “bro hug.” Here’s how it works. He comes up to you,...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

The Weight of it All

The memories came flooding back – ones that had never really left me in the...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

Autism, Guardianship and the Words that (Don’t) Matter

When you have a child with autism or any sort of disability, you have to...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Ten

What time? What time was I exactly born, Mamma? It was around 4:30 in the...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

Lead with Love

The whole week's been a rather downward spiral, starting with the horrible attacks in Paris...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

All Haste to the Wedding

The bags are packed, the plans have been made and the caregiver has been hired....

April 2015

April 16, 2015

Ali Family Autism Truths #16 – Siblings Who Roll with It

April 16, 2015 - Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #16 My daughter came home after...

April 11, 2015

Ali Family Autism Truths #11 – Life Gets In the Way

April 11, 2015, Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #11 There is a lot going on today,...

April 08, 2015

Ali Family Autism Truths #8 – To be Known, Understood

April 8, 2015 – Autism Awareness Month, Ali Family Autism Truths #8 As I write...

March 2015

March 03, 2015

Motherwhelmed and Wanting More

There are the articles, posts, op-eds and stories that the important ones. The BIG ones....

December 2014

December 15, 2014

#IllRideWithYou – The World I Want to Raise My Children In

Perhaps – no, I’m certain – that these are the images and these are the...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Patheos Welcomes the “Love, InshAllah” blog

A few years back a manuscript (for review purposes) came mailed to my house, not...

September 2014

September 26, 2014

Seven

It’s a Friday night, and I’m doing one of the things I love most to...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

Fourteen

Usually you have the third row of the car all to yourself, but with your...

April 2014

April 02, 2014

You are Enduring Love

My darling boy, The sun is shining and the air is warm with the scents...

February 2014

February 05, 2014

To Have and to Hold

Last night after putting you to bed, after turning off the bedroom light and turning...

December 2013

December 29, 2013

Finding His Calm

What is the function of the behavior? I can’t tell you how many times special...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

A Big Brother in Autism Land

When I glance up at the clock from my computer, I see that it’s 5:30...

May 2013

May 12, 2013

Loved and Loved Back

The whole family came out for Amal’s soccer game on Saturday morning – Lil D,...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

The Hardest Hajj Lesson of All

I sit at the dinner table and watched my kids eat. Lil D, grasping a...

September 2012

September 14, 2012

Realizing How Good We’ve Got It

It has always been a pet peeve and a weakness, of mine that when things...

September 05, 2012

Necessary Discussions in Autism Land

Between discussions with my daughter about who are her new classmates or if the zippered...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Never Let You Go

When the chips are down or when the chips are up (heck, pretty much any...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Bursting My Daughter’s Belief Bubble

Being Muslim has certainly reduced the imaginary figures in our house – no Santa Claus,...

February 17, 2012

Talking Love, Islam and American Muslim Women with ‘Love InshAllah’s Nura Maznavi

It’s about love, yes, but it’s about all the ways love happens, begins, ends, endures,...