By Mahshid Hager I love to dance! It makes me feel alive. A few nights ago, I had an amazing dance experience in Sydney, Australia. I attended an event hosted…
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Traveling Therapist
By Mahshid Hager I am currently sitting at Los Angeles International Airport. I’m about to take an over-night flight to Sydney, Australia. This will be my second trip to Sydney…
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Savory Celery And Chicken Stew
Khoreshet-e-Karafs (Celery Stew) is one of the first recipe’s I learned to make. I had just moved to San Diego and I was living with my uncle Tony, an avid cook…
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Got Faith?
By Mahshid Hager “Are you religious?” I get this question sometimes, from friends, from clients, from co-workers. What follows, is me, mumbling something about “more spiritual than religious”…. “I…
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Advice To My Younger Self
By Mahshid Hager I moved away from home six months after I graduated from high school. I didn’t just move away, I moved almost 5,ooo miles away, to San Diego, California.…
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Lessons In Letting Go
Picture above courtesy of Kamelia Photography 2014 By Mahshid Hager When my kids were younger, I thought there would come a time when I didn’t worry about them so much. I…
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A Community Of Assistants
By Mahshid Hager Do you know that feeling, when you were a kid, hanging out with your best friend, playing and goofing around and totally being yourself because you hadn’t…
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Iranians And Their Flag: It’s Complicated!
By Mahshid Hager Last week I attended the House Of Iran Nowruz event in San Diego. Every year, the event draws hundreds of Iranians from all around town to Balboa…
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Ode to Köln
By Mahshid Hager I grew up in Köln (known as Cologne in English), Germany. I always say I spent my “formative” years there. My family arrived in Köln in the Summer of 1982,…
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Happy Nowruz!
By Mahshid Hager My husband and I walk into the Balboa International Market on this busy Sunday afternoon. Nowruz (Persian New Year) is tomorrow and the store is busting with…
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