The receipt is in my desk drawer in Toronto, folded twice, dated 12 Farvardin 1398, which the bank’s system rendered as April 1, 2019, because…
The Problem With Treating Self-Care as Consumption
In Ordibehesht 1396 â May 2017 â I carried…” } I’ll assemble fully now. Also make sure ampersands: none in the HTML except in the…
The Notebook Where Farsi and English Stopped Translating
The price sticker on the back says ۳٬۵۰۰ تومان. Mehran stationery, spiral-bound, grid paper, 120 pages. I bought it on Jomhuri Street in Tehran in…
How Music Becomes a Transport Device for Memory
There is a cassette tape in my mother’s kitchen drawer in Tehran, its label written in my grandmother’s hand: Googoosh, 1352, Mehrabad. I have not…
Why Handwritten Notes Carry Weight That Digital Messages Cannot
There is a particular weight to a handwritten note that no digital message can replicate. It is not nostalgia, exactly. It is the weight of…