by AnnSheybani | Mar 19, 2012 | Beth Janery, Faith, forgiveness, goals, grace, gratitude, Honesty, identity, love
This is a guest post from Beth Jannery, author of Simple Grace. Life is not to be endured. It is an opportunity to be of service, to enjoy, to grow and change and challenge ourselves. In life we have a choice: fill it with grace or stay in the negative. Recently, I... by AnnSheybani | Mar 14, 2012 | Aconcagua, Argentina, climbing lessons, husband, identity, kedging, mountain climbing, route finding
The good, the bad, and the ugly. And clearly the smelly. by AnnSheybani | Feb 28, 2012 | adventure, choosing a mate, Cultural Issues, dating, divorce, expectations, husband, identity, Iran, love, marriage, match profile, Match.com, mistakes, Muslim, Self-Esteem
I used to think that women, like me, were guilty of being non-selective when it came to choosing a mate. That any warm body that paid us a little attention could end up walking us down the aisle. But lately I’ve been noticing that men–particularly young... by AnnSheybani | Feb 21, 2012 | Faith, Interview, recovery, reinvention, sexual abuse, Starting Over, Yvonne Rousseau
Yvonne Rousseau considers herself a warrior. Sexually abused as a child, she turned a trauma that would have flattened the strongest of us into a one-woman mission to help other victims. Her recently released book, Beyond Myself: Reclaiming Your Life After... by AnnSheybani | Feb 12, 2012 | efficiency, mistakes, mountain climbing, Richard Bausch, Writing
My mother used to complain whenever I trotted up to my bedroom without taking the items she’d left for me on the stairs. She’d complain again if I came back down without bringing the trash can she’d asked for, or the jacket I needed for school. Two...
