It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Sometimes it was something like the birth of a new child in the home. Sometimes it was illness of a child.

Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.

The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.