The Daily Derja

Half an hour of sleep, a coughing kid with pneumonia, and a morning running on fumes.

Notes from a sixteenth-anniversary trip to Djerba: warm encounters, everyday religious life, practicing Arabic in passing conversations, and impressions gathered without rushing or explanation.

New year starts with a stomach bug and a birthday IOU I still need to make good on.

Jewish fast day arrives, but a stomach bug keeps me sprinting to the bathroom instead of fasting.

A post about hauling myself out of bed and letting a soul playlist brighten a dark winter morning.