It was just another event that we simply could not attend. My husband and I got an email dinner invitation from our kids’ school community. “An evening to unwind and sip a glass of wine”… Well, in our gatherings we do not collectively unwind and we definitely do not use wine to do that… We’d rather un-wine! Our usual and automatic reply to such an invitation would be “We appreciate the invitation and apologize for not being able to attend due to a prior commitment.” It is a c

On Tuesday May 25 of 2016, I had the great honor of receiving the Eden Prairie Human Rights Award for 2016. The Eden Prairie City Council and Human Rights and Diversity committee granted me this title for my “efforts to uphold the values of the City’s Human Rights Manifesto by building bridges of unity and dismantling mis-information and fear about Muslims”. I received the award at Eden Prairie City Hall, Minnesota, in the presence of the Mayor, Nancy Tyra-Lukens, city counci