You Can't Make Mistakes.

Again, as I attempt to get back into my own groove after months and months of being a one-track monkey, I will be writing relatively frequently. So, that said, please bear with me as I bore even myself with the minutiae and details of my daily wheelings and dealings.

Things are coming together for this fall’s adventure to Alexandria. Each day I get a little more anxious and a little more prepared for the trip. It is going to be possibly the most academically beneficial experience of my career so far. Not to mention fun. I really look forward to being there again. I feel at home there, even though it might not always be the easiest place to live for an American student—or anyone for that matter. Plus, this site will afford me an opportunity to broadcast what I am doing and to share my experiences with everyone on this side of the ocean. I will also possibly be launching a podcast on this site to further augment that sharing, so stay tuned.

In other news, I—along with Kalamazoo author W. Donta Andrews and the Rev. Ericka Parkinson, Associate Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Richland—will be appearing on Just Friendly Advice with Shalini on Kalamazoo TalkRadio 1360AM this Sunday at 3:00pm. They are doing a series on modern spirituality and I get to go talk about what I actually know something about for a change. Very exciting. It is the first step to my ultimate goal to be a public radio expert on religion someday. I have always wanted to be one of the folks that the Diane Rehm Show or Talk of the Nation staff calls up to have appear on the show to talk about religion, Islam, or whatever. I can’t wait.

For now, however, there are errands to run and there is work to be done on other fronts.