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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Between Saturday and Monday
My son came to my room this morning and said, “I can’t believe school starts so soon!” “When exactly does it start?” I asked. “The day after tomorrow. You know, there’s not much time left,” he said. “Well, there are … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Amazon, Amazon UK, Canada, Canadians, day, death, e-book, East Coast, Ernest Hemingway, evacuate, famine, flooded, hurricane, Irene, Jack Layton, japan, Libya, Middle East, Monday, news, newspaper, power, radio, rain, residents, roads, Saturday, school, Somalia, son, States, surf, tomorrow, tv, United States, waves, weekend, wind
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There’s No Limit
I love this time of the year. My favorite season being Autumn, I love the days prior to it too, when the schools are about to open. There’s a certain buzz around that you do not find during the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged achievements, appreciation, autumn, bigger, book, books, child, children, compensation, daughter, dream, dreams, education, energy, excitement, feelings, gratitude, growing, higher-education, hope, kids, music, paper, parent, parents, pen, positive, reward, school, shop, shopping, soul, spirit, spirits, student, teacher, University, voice, year
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The Voice Of Change
As you may all know by now, I like to start my day waking up early to read and have my coffee. I stopped reading the newspaper lately. I realized that on days I do not read the paper, I … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, beauty, book, books, change, children, compassion, culture, e-book, Ernest Hemingway, ethics, film, future, good, Jersey Shore, John Grisham, Leo Tolstoy, life, movie, news, newspaper, noise, novel, people, read, reading, reality tv, script, speak, story, teenagers, tv, University, values, voice, words, writer, writing, young
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Night And Day
Do you ever wonder how different your perception of things is between day and night? Do you notice how when you look outside your window at night at your surroundings, and see the lights on in your neighbor’s house, you … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, black, challenges, dark, day, daytime, desire, desires, dream, dreams, easy, ego, Ernest Hemingway, event, events, everything, fear, feelings, flame, friends, life, light, lost, memories, neighbors, night, opportunity, past, people, reason, recollections, secret, soul, sun, sunlight, thick, today, window, world
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Can’t You Read English?
In October 1988 Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian writer, won the Nobel Prize for literature. When I first heard the news I was ecstatic. “Finally. I told my husband. Now the rest of the world will know him and read his … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, aim, Arab world, book, books, British, civil war, curriculum, Dubai, e-book, English, high school, home, horror, husband, Ivan Turgenev, journalist, literature, married, Mathematics, memories, Middle East, Naguib Mahfouz, name, news, newspaper, October, people, recognition, road, school, spelling, teacher, translation, tv, twin towers, ugly, welcome, world
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And I Thought
Hemingway wrote: “You are an expatriate. One of the worst type. Haven’t you heard that? Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.” “You are an expatriate. You lost touch with … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Arab world, Armenian, belong, book, books, Canada, categorize, citizen, country, culture, curfew, daughter, Dubai, e-book, Ernest Hemingway, expat, global, globalization, husband, job, land, Lebanon, life, living, Mahmoud Darwish, Middle East, occupied, parents, passport, sanctions, standards, struggle, The Lost I, work, write, writer, writing
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A Shattered Society
In the comfort and quiet of my sitting room in Montreal I watch the late night news about the riots in UK. I watch as hooded youths burn and thrash the streets of London. I watch images of shops and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Beirut, book, books, cars, children, city, civil war, country, death, e-book, Edward Said, Ernest Hemingway, Europe, fear, happiness, history, journalist, London, loneliness, magazine, Mahmoud Darwish, memory, Middle East, neighborhood, news, newspapers, politics, radio, religion, riots, society, The Lost I, time, tv, UK, women, youth
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Imagine
Are you a dreamer? Do you dream about your future? Do you wonder about your past? If you have the chance to live your life again how would you like it to be different? Well I do. I am a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, believe, book, books, chance, country, culture, dream, e-book, English, experience, free, freedom, French, future, government, history, imagine, John Steinbeck, lawyer, library, life, literature, Mathematics, Middle East, past, people, person, problem, read, reading, religion, story, style, University, wish, world, writer, writing
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The Truth Is
I was watching an actor being interviewed once. When asked why he left New York, he replied, “The moment everything around you starts to get on your nerves, you know it’s about time to move, to change your city.” Life … Continue reading
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Tagged actor, age, Amazon, Amazon UK, beautiful, boredom, child, city, country, daily, day, destiny, dream, dreams, Ernest Hemingway, escape, faith, fate, fight, furniture, future, happy, interview, James Joyce, life, man, Mitch Albom, move, neighbor, neighbors, New York, newspaper, newspapers, people, routine, school, traffic, truth, worries
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