Everywhere I have gone in life, I have carried myself living and breathing Afghanistan. Often times when I step into well-equipped classrooms in the U.S., I think back to my decrepit overcrowded school in Kabul, enlivened with students electrified for learning. When I drive on empty roads, sometimes the lush green hills morph into beigeContinue reading “Dreams: Afghanistan’s Biggest Loss”
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Afghanistan Needs Us. Here is What I am Doing to Help.
I was born during the Taliban regime’s rule in the 1990s. After spending most of my childhood as a war refugee, my family returned to Afghanistan in the 2000s during a period of hope and stability. For a couple years while I attended classroom inside tents, the new Afghan government repaired my bomb-scarred school. AsContinue reading “Afghanistan Needs Us. Here is What I am Doing to Help.”
To Nowroz 1400
Celebrating a special Persian New Year with lots and lots of riding, 1400 kilometers to be precise… almost! First things first, the facts: The Persian New Year, also known as Nowroz (Persian for “new day”) always coincides with the spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. That makes the new year also the first day ofContinue reading “To Nowroz 1400”
Reunion on the Trails of a Wildfire
This is Granby, Colorado. It is spectacular as you can see. Last week, two of my brothers and I (there are five of us) met there for our brief and mostly accidental once-a-year reunion. Just a couple weeks before that, the ski town of Granby was at the epicenter of one of Colorado’s biggest wildfiresContinue reading “Reunion on the Trails of a Wildfire”
Farid Noori 