by AnnSheybani | Jun 13, 2011 | adventure, Authenticity, goals, identity, marriage, Uncategorized
I’ve been running into a number of women lately who can’t seem to remember who they were before they married and had kids. About to enter the empty nest stage, they are anxious as to what to do next. For the first time in a very long time, they have time...
by AnnSheybani | May 21, 2011 | adventure, choosing a mate, dating, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, husband, Iran, marriage, match profile, Match.com, Uncategorized
Hakim’s niece was about to marry a Persian boy she’d met at school. She’d done things right, however, unlike some of her cousins. She hadn’t fallen in love beforehand. She’d accepted the offer of marriage, after considering a number of formal suitors, based on...
by AnnSheybani | May 13, 2011 | adventure, books, Courage, Denali, goals, mountain climbing
This is a guest post by Walt Hampton. A beautiful example of how one book can alter the course of a life. It had been a warm summer day in August of 1972. My father had purchased the book for me that morning in a Nantucket bookshop, the book that would change...
by AnnSheybani | Oct 28, 2010 | adventure, Authenticity, Codependency, Confidence, Denali, Into the Wild, Jean Craighead George, Krakauer, mountain climbing, The Other Side of the Mountain
I had lunch last week with an old friend I hadn’t seen in years. Both oddballs in high school, we’d dreamed of baking bread together when we graduated, raising sheep, and starting a commune in rural Vermont. She’d do the wool spinning and...
