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Royal Caribbean – Adventure of the Seas
This would be my 3rd time on a Royal Caribbean ship. I wish I would have written down my thoughts on the other ships I had been on. I guess, it’s never too late to start. For some strange reason,...
Episode 7 Part I – I’m Different Now
Hello again. This is Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed with living a life through books. This is a two-part episode. Here’s a bit of background. When I started thinking seriously about this podcast and began...
Thanksgiving 2018 Special
Hello everyone. I’m Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed and Welcome to our special Thanksgiving episode of Living a Life through Books. I assume you all survived my Halloween special and today’s episode is...
Halloween Episode
Welcome to Halloween and my first seasonal episode. Here’s a bit of micro history. I have had, since the beginning of September, enough episodes for publishing every other week all the way up to...
Episode 6 – Can’t Sleep, Can’t Put It Down
Hello again and as always, welcome back. This is Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed, your friendly neighborhood book reader for living a life through books. Before I start with today’s episode, I want to...
Episode 5 – The Re-read
Hello everyone. Last time we spoke about half-finished books. This time, let’s go the other direction. What about a book you’ve finished and love so much, you want to read it again? That has...
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Episode 4 – Unfinished
And it’s me again. Today let’s talk about finishing books. In my experiment, I only counted the books I had finished. An unfinished book, was an unfinished book. I did not think it would be fair...
How to cut a jackfruit
Dear friends, Here's a crazy video I decided to post. Hope you all enjoy it. It's just one of those wild things that I thought about sharing and said, "why not?" I could talk about the...
Episode 3 – We Are Who We Are
Hello and welcome again. Today, let’s talk about the mirror. OK, not the literal mirror, but the mirror that allows us to look within ourselves and try to discover who we are and what we really...
Episode 2 – Good to Great: The Referencing Principle
Hello again and welcome to my second podcast. In my first introductory podcast, I made mention that I am a pediatric dentist. For today, let’s talk a bit about that and books, of...
Episode 1 – Introduction to Living a Life Through Books
Hello, I’m Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed and welcome to my first podcast, living a life through books. I’m a pediatric dentist, but that is not totally relevant to this podcast. It may have some relevance...
Going around in circles
Everyday for years now, I have taken the same path to work. It's timed to be about a fourteen to sixteen minute drive depending on the lights. I don't know why I settled on this path...