It can be difficult for some of us to adjust to the loneliness this time of year brings especially after a global pandemic that shifted society to be more isolated. We bring forth a little how-to-baati to transform your winter experience, to make it a more comfortable and enjoyable period.

It is really fascinating that the Somalis back home and, in the diaspora, have the baati/sheed as a common article of clothing that identifies us as people from the same community, folks of the same nation. It is a piece in every luggage we pack, an item in every…