Last night we celebrated Nowruz (Persian New Year) with friends, food, and a slightly-too-late bedtime. Their beautiful new house glowed, candles flickered, and the conversation turned into a history lesson about family traditions which made us think: “Wait, why do…
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Going green: a learning adventure for kids Every year, as the world slowly shakes off winter’s gloom, I find myself in a familiar pre-spring ritual: growing sabzeh, or mung beans, in preparation for Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Nowruz, marking…
View PostMy first Sizdah Bedar There are moments when a tradition so far from home feels both strange and familiar. This was my first Sizdah Bedar, the Persian celebration on the 13th day after Nowruz. 4,000 miles from H’s homeland, in…
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