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Home Is A Notion
I don’t know how but it seems that lately all my stories take place at some clinic. The other day I was at the clinic yet again waiting for my turn when I started a conversation with the lady beside … Continue reading
In Search Of Completeness
Things are not looking good again in Lebanon, not with the revolt in neighboring Syria and the political turmoil that is sweeping the Arab world in the name of uprising. For almost a year now I have stopped reading newspaper … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, articles, blogging, books, Canada, childhood, citizen, CTV, doubt, emotion, existence, Facebook, family, fear, feelings, fiction, friends, happy, home, interview, job, joy, life, memories, Middle East, news, pain, peace, politics, publishing, religion, tv, video, work, worry, writer, writing, youth
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Would You Like To Be A Thing?
Margaret Atwood’s New York based editor asked her once, “What are you in Canada now anyway? I mean, here you are a writer but what are you up there? Are you a thing?” “I used to be a writer, and … Continue reading
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Tagged art, author, book, books, Canada, characters, children, creative writing, diary, digital, dreams, emotion, English, Ernest Hemingway, feelings, fiction, happy, Harry Potter, home, ideas, language, lessons, library, life, literature, love, Margaret Atwood, memories, New York, novel, people, poetry, society, story, thoughts, words, write, writer, writing
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, blog, book, Canada, daughter, dream, England, feelings, fiction, home, hope, house, internet, joy, kids, library, life, love, magic, memory, new year, news, novel, opera, Paris, peace, people, poetry, Prix Goncourt, reading, religion, rendezvous, Robert Fisk, Simone De Beauvoir, Sydney, United States, William Saroyan, writer, writing
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The Lights Are On
Years ago when I was a student in high school I was staying in Beirut at my aunt’s place, when the government was toppled and a military government took over. It had been almost a year since the civil war … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, aunt, Canada, Christmas, civil war, Elie Wiesel, experience, faith, family, fear, genocide, God, government, holocaust, horror, house, human, lights, Middle East, military, news, night, people, politics, protest, race, reason, red, Red Cross, religion, religious, signs, story, suffering, torture, traffic, traffic light, twilight, writing
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The First Snowfall of the Season
My daughter says that every time it snows, she thinks of Robert Frost’s poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ which is one of her favorites. Except, since we don’t live near any woods, rather than stopping to “watch … Continue reading
The Little Things In Life
Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were big things.” When my children were younger and I was teaching full time, I used to complain about having too much … Continue reading
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Tagged act, Amazon, Amazon UK, anxiety, ballet, beginning, books, Canada, children, city, coffee, cook, danger, day, dinner, drive, e-book, evil, eyes, fear, football, friends, job, kids, mark, me, metro, mother, practice, relax, road, safety, school, teacher, teaching, teenagers, think, thinking, time
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State of Unemployment
“It’s terrible to have one’s future obstructed, and to have always to resort to makeshift solutions.” Simone De Beauvoir I watch with great sadness the protest against unemployment on Wall Street, and the long lineup in front of employment offices … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, Canada, cars, cities, color, dark, day, desire, drive, employment, fear, feeling, future, Jean Paul Sartre, job, jobs, leaves, life, live, morning, protest, protests, reality, religion, sad, Simone De Beauvoir, society, space, sun, sweet, time, tree, truth, unemployment, unhappy, United States, Wall Street, work, world
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All That Is Left
How I love it when the Giller longlist is out! The air buzzes with excitement as enthusiastic readers and authors impatiently wait for the final night, November 8, to arrive, when the winner will be announced during a gala ceremony … Continue reading
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Tagged advocate, author, award, book, books, campaign, Canada, community, creative writing, e-book, Facebook, family, favorites, fiction, friends, Giller Prize, happy, history, internet, Jury, library, literature, neighbors, news, online, opinion, people, prize, professionals, ramblings, reader, reading, story, Toronto, tv, vote, winner, writer, writing
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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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