Amil Amin is a Afghan-American writer from the SF bay area. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MA from San Francisco State University. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA where you can find her fundraising for a nonprofit and cuddling with her spirited and youthful senior dog.
I look down at my phone and it says Baba and I realize I haven’t seen him since that time I was at home on the couch reading and my mom was sitting at the dining table on a chair cracking pine nuts one by one, gently...