To serve others should come from a place of love, and caregivers should be careful not to reach a state of resentment during their servitude. Hence, the importance of solitude.

In this episode, solitude / aloneness is viewed as a choice to spend time with oneself and to dare to dream; and with dreaming comes beauty in life as dreams seep into one's reality.

In this episode, I dicuss how girls and women have a powerful voice that they must project out into the world. They must not shush themselves and tamp down their voices just because that is how things are supposed to be.

Today's episode includes war stories told by survivors of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and I am one of them.

In this first episode, I tell you, my dear listeners, about how my YouTube channel I Read Aloud (@ireadaloud) came about and how this new podcast, Casual Fridays, took its first breath.