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Tag Archives: friends
Six Months Ago Today
It’s been six months already that I have lost you, my love of over thirty years, my best friend and companion, my significant other, my better half; and you are gone forever from my life, our life. Six months ago … Continue reading
Wait And Hope
Yesterday evening I went to pick my son up from the metro station as he had missed his bus. It takes him about half an hour to walk the distance. But it was so freezing cold and windy that I … Continue reading
If I Have To Be Alone
The other day I met up with an old friend in the food court of a busy shopping mall here in Montreal. I usually avoid the food court area of shopping malls, especially on a Saturday afternoon because of the … Continue reading
Each Man Is The Whole World
Last week I met up with a friend that I had not seen or heard from for almost thirty years. As we sat talking and remembering and reminiscing I realized that I was referring to the two different phases of … Continue reading
The Most Beautiful Things
It’s strange how other people affect us sometimes. We meet so many people in a lifetime and yet we stay in touch with only a few of them. Among the latter are our relatives who we do not choose but … Continue reading
The Smell Of Things
When I was a little girl and in the scouts, whenever we went camping in the fields in our village there were always stray dogs wondering around. I used to be terrified of them whenever they got near me. I … Continue reading
Life Is Still A Dead End
Of all the Christmases and New Years that I have had, even while I was living in Lebanon during the civil war, the hardest was the one that just passed. It’s harder to talk about even now that it’s a … Continue reading
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2012. If it were … Continue reading
How Did It Get So Late So Soon?
“How did it get so late so soon?” Dr. Seuss At some point in our lives we have all had a rough time. Some more than others. I grew up listening to my parents’ and grandparents’ stories. Their stories were not … Continue reading
