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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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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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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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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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The Magic Of The Giller
In 2006, on September 9, we moved into our house in Montreal, after waiting a whole month for our furniture to be delivered. Our personal belongings had been shipped from Dubai and the boxes filled every room of the house. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, BBC, Beirut, book, books, Canada, cold, cure, Dubai, e-book, editor, gala, hotel, house, immigration, internet, job, Lebanon, library, life, literature, magic, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Montreal, news, newspaper, night, novel, November, October, people, publishers, story, talk, Toronto, touch, writer
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Hardest Way Of Earning A Living
When I was in high school in our village in the east of the Bekaa Valley, we learned Armenian, English and Arabic. Of all the essays we used to write in these languages, I loved to write in English the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Anthony Trollope, article, bestseller, book, books, character, classic, classroom, course, e-book, English, Ernest Hemingway, essay, experience, feelings, high school, Honore de Balzac, ideal, Leo Tolstoy, lesson, library, magazine, Mathematics, Maxim Gorky, news, newspaper, novel, organize, read, senses, story, student, teacher, treasure, write, writer, writers workshop, young
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I Wish You All A Happy Bleeding
My son came to my room the other day while I was reading and said, “I am happy with the way I organized my library this time. I sorted my books out and arranged the shittiest all on one shelf … Continue reading
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Tagged article, bestseller, book, book club, books, character, classic, context, course, creative writing, dogma, e-book, Ernest Hemingway, experience, feelings, ideal, lesson, library, magazine, mature, news, newspaper, novel, novels, organize, rare, Ray Bradbury, read, senses, Stephen King, story, treasure, William Saroyan, write, writer, writers workshop, writing courses, young, zest
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Don’t Cheat With It
Did you watch Oprah’s interview with James Frey yesterday? Honestly, I don’t see the point of this interview and with two parts, the second part to be continued today. Maybe it’s just me. Two whole hours of James Frey when … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, authenticity, author, beat generation, book, book club, books, cheating, children, e-book, education, Ernest Hemingway, family, form, generation, grammar, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, James Frey, library, lie, life, literature, lost, love, magazine, memoir, newspaper, Oprah, parents, professional, publishers, radio, reading, story, student, televion, writing
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I Am That Chrysalis
March 4, 2011, a little before 5:00 am, I am sitting in my living room in Montreal, with fountain pen in hand and a writing pad in my lap, ready to start a conversation with myself before my husband wakes … Continue reading
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Tagged book, butterfly, Canada, caterpillar, chrysalis, civil war, coffee, conversation, country, crawl, dictionary, dignity, dreams, Dubai, family, fountain pen, freedom, home, husband, immigrant, ink, job, Kafka, larva, Lebanon, lexicon, Middle East, Montblanc, Montreal, muse, newspaper, Oxford, pens, pupa, Reader's Digest, universal, war, Webster's, writer
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