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Why Is It Always The Ones Who Love Life
In the living room of my home in Montreal, in the dining room cabinet, on a shelf behind the glass is a picture of our family. It is an old photo taken in Dubai when my kids were still very … Continue reading
Since Then We Never Stopped
When I was a little girl growing up in Lebanon, the stories I was told by my elders were not of Cinderella and Prince Charming. Rather they were stories of survival told by my parents and grandparents. I did not … 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
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
Time Seems To Be Going Faster
Yesterday I was sifting through my drawer looking for something when I noticed my son’s high-school ID. I looked at his picture. He was just a kid then and yet it seems like it was just yesterday that we moved … Continue reading
You Don’t Understand
Have you noticed how while talking to some people they look spaced out, and you get the feeling that they are not listening to a word you’re saying? They don’t even look at you when you’re talking. I believe communication … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, experience, friends, kids, parents, people, reading, relationships, thoughts, writing
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Keeping Promises
Man is by nature a social animal. In fact society is based on the links and the relationships between people. At a very young age we learn to adapt to our surroundings to get along with the people around us. … Continue reading
What Was I Thinking
James Joyce once said; “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” Years ago in Dubai, when my kids were still in elementary school, my son asked me one day as I picked him up after class, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Arabic, Armenian, background, book, books, crisis, culture, e-book, education, elementary school, everything, Ezra Pound, friend, friends, Guy de Maupassant, human, Identity, James Joyce, kid, kids, knowledge, language, languages, Lebanon, parent, parents, people, religion, school, single, son, The Lost I, tradition, Universe, weird, wisdom, world
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There’s No Limit
I love this time of the year. My favorite season being Autumn, I love the days prior to it too, when the schools are about to open. There’s a certain buzz around that you do not find during the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged achievements, appreciation, autumn, bigger, book, books, child, children, compensation, daughter, dream, dreams, education, energy, excitement, feelings, gratitude, growing, higher-education, hope, kids, music, paper, parent, parents, pen, positive, reward, school, shop, shopping, soul, spirit, spirits, student, teacher, University, voice, year
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And I Thought
Hemingway wrote: “You are an expatriate. One of the worst type. Haven’t you heard that? Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.” “You are an expatriate. You lost touch with … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Arab world, Armenian, belong, book, books, Canada, categorize, citizen, country, culture, curfew, daughter, Dubai, e-book, Ernest Hemingway, expat, global, globalization, husband, job, land, Lebanon, life, living, Mahmoud Darwish, Middle East, occupied, parents, passport, sanctions, standards, struggle, The Lost I, work, write, writer, writing
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