Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.