General conversations and community discussions.
No shoes inside our house, ever. My father put a rack outside the door in 1998 and nothing has changed. Guests get 1 warning, at the door,…
2 am, Thursday night. Woke up hungry and found the rice from dinner still sitting on the counter in the pot. Lid on, so I thought fine.…
Every Sunday I'm up at 6:15 and at the market by 6:45. No alarm needed anymore, my body just does it. It's a small open market near our…
Nothing planned this weekend and I'm happy about it. Last 3 weekends vanished on errands. Saturday was a bank, a mobile shop and my…
As a kid I would rather skip dinner than eat bitter gourd. My mother made it every Thursday. I counted. She tried everything. Fried thin…
I own a grey t-shirt from a 2016 cricket tournament and it has 4 holes. I counted yesterday. It was free with the entry fee. The print said…
There's a small carving on our building gate, bottom left corner, about knee height. A fish, I think. I've lived here 11 years. I must have…
The dining chair near the window has wobbled for about 6 weeks. Every time I sat down, it rocked left. We tried folding a piece of…
In our house the mango seed is mine. It's been mine since I was 8 and nobody argues. My mother cuts the 2 big cheeks into cubes for…
I grew up in the Old City, 2 lanes behind a bangle shop. We lived above a tailor. Now when I come home from Khobar, I stay at my brother's…