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Everything Became So Quiet
When I was younger, I used to love to stay awake at night till well after midnight. I loved to read and I also loved to watch the night from my window. I used to watch how the lights in … Continue reading
Whatever Happened To Happy Endings
When I was a little girl, like most children I was very afraid of the dark. We lived in the village, in a house with a big garden. My bedroom, overlooking the garden, had a huge window. On hot summer … Continue reading
Are You A Winner Or A Loser In This Life
Are You A Winner Or A Loser In This Life ? The reason I ask this question is because recently I met with a few friends and acquaintances. One of the women present, whom I was meeting for the first … Continue reading
New Beginning
“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I do agree with Emerson that … Continue reading
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Tagged author, book, books, civil war, dad, dreams, emotion, encouragement, English, essay, faith, feelings, fiction, gratitude, happy, high school, history, home, house, language, lessons, library, life, light, literature, love, memories, mom, music, novel, people, story, teacher, thoughts, University, words, world, 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
Occupy
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Dream is also just a word until you decide to fight for it with all your enthusiasm and commitment.” Paulo Coelho We all have plans for a … Continue reading
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Tagged children, crisis, Doris Lessing, dream, dreams, economics, education, family, fear, future, game, George Orwell, heroes, house, life, love, mind, Mitch Albom, Montreal, occupy, occupy Wall Street, pain, plan, powerful, protests, reality, relationship, sad, school, security, Simone De Beauvoir, society, struggle, Toronto, unemployment, United States, Wall Street, work
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No Place To Call Home
“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas put forth a historic U.N. membership bid for an independent state of Palestine on Friday. The formal application drew applause in the assembly when the Palestinian leader raised the document at the podium during his speech … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Anton Chekhov, Arab world, brother, challenges, country, father, feeling, good, grandfather, grandparents, happy, hardship, history, home, hope, house, humanity, language, Lebanon, life, lost, membership, memory, Middle East, news, optimism, Palestinians, people, picture, refugees, remember, sad, student, truth, University, weather, wedding
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Writing Is Writing
Do you as a writer feel guilty when you are not writing, and yet you assure yourself that you are not wasting time? That on the contrary you are getting in the mood or preparing for the task? As E.L. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, author, autobiography, biography, book, books, creative writing, dream, e-book, E.L.Doctorow, essay, feel, feeling, fiction, guilty, hope, house, literature, mood, non-fiction, novel, people, plan, procrastination, publisher, publishing, read, reader, reading, rejection, sense, Sinclair Lewis, story, task, time, write, writer, writing
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