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It’s All Right To Have A Little Bit Of Regret
I was watching CTV news the other evening and there was some kind of survey conducted comparing people’s happiness. The people considered belonged to two different groups. Optimists and pessimists. And the conclusion was something along the line that a … 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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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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Dear Readers
It has been exactly a year since I started my blog. I would like to thank you all for following, reading and commenting on my posts. Thanks to your support I was able to swirl and swing words to convey … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, blog, book, books, Christmas, civil war, death, e-book, faith, fear, fiction, food, God, happy, holidays, hope, internet, kids, library, life, love, memories, Middle East, nature, new year, news, novel, people, politics, reading, religion, society, soul, thoughts, Universe, war, words, 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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Sweet And Sour
Do you remember your senior year in high school? When you were anxiously looking forward to whatever it was you had planned to do? To go to college, join the football team, travel to Europe, etc. In other words, follow … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, believe, body, book, books, civil war, college, country, day, dream, dreams, e-book, Europe, football, friends, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, generation, graduation, happy, heart, idea, lie, life, memories, months, news, nostalgia, reality, sad, school, schools, summer, sweet, team, travel, truth, victim, years
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Rejection!
Rejection, or the “R” word, is the most dreaded word of a writer. It is so powerful that it can have a negative impact on the writer, so much so that some writers have great difficulty in handling it and … Continue reading
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Tagged agent, Amazon, Amazon UK, author, book, books, character, creative writing, digital, e-book, emotions, English, feelings, fiction, good, internet, library, life, literature, living, market, movie, news, novel, online, plot, price, publishers, read, reading, rejection, sale, Saul Bellow, story, truth, words, world, writer, writers
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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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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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