Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Is one of the best books I have read in a long time. It is a very entertaining read and in a very lucid style considering it is a book on punctuation! One of my pet peeves at the moment is poor punctuation. Everybody does it, I am sure there are one or two mistakes in what I have written so far, but the problem is that no one cares…
My Story My father has six children including my half-sister (she is the eldest). I am the third eldest, I have a sister older than me and my half-sister older than her, I then have two sisters younger and a brother 9 years my junior. We are all married except my brother who will be getting married this summer insha’Allah. My half-sister has a clothes shop next door to my father’s grocery and halal meat shop. One of my sisters…
Salams, My father was married at the age of 14 (much against his wishes) by the age of 16 he had a baby daughter, my half-sister (now 48 yrs old). My father was married and divorced before he married my mother. The first lady whom he married was his paternal cousin. Anyway, my father excelled in his studies but due to this added responsibility of raising a family and taking care of his parents and siblings (one brother, four sisters)…