A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

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

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.