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Tag Archives: peace
Home Is A Notion
I don’t know how but it seems that lately all my stories take place at some clinic. The other day I was at the clinic yet again waiting for my turn when I started a conversation with the lady beside … Continue reading
I Don’t Remember Anyone Winning Anywhere Any Time
It is with a sad heart that I read about what is happening in the other part of the world, particularly the Middle East. They say history repeats itself. What is happening in Syria now for whatever reason reminds me … Continue reading
Peace Is Not Something You Wish For
For the past month or so now I have been trying to come to terms with myself and with everything in the world around me. I have been trying to find a reason for what happened and why it happened … Continue reading
I Lost My Better Half
Perhaps some of you may be wondering why I haven’t posted anything for quite a while now when in the past I tried to write almost every day, or more specifically post an article every other day. A week ago … Continue reading
Behind The Scenes Part Two
As I promised yesterday, here’s more from the interesting and revealing interview Irving Wallace, the great American writer, had with the judges of the Nobel Prize, in Sweden. “I wanted more of Dr. Hedin’s behind-the-scenes anecdotes. I knew that this … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, America, Anton Chekhov, art, article, articles, author, awards, books, courage, drama, emotion, fear, feelings, Hollywood, humor, ideas, India, influence, Irving Wallace, Judge, language, Leo Tolstoy, library, literature, love, Nobel prize, Paris, peace, poetry, reading, Russia, science, Sweden, thoughts, wisdom, write, writer, writing
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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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He Gave Me Christmas!
It’s that time of year when our hearts are filled with expectations and anxiety. We have lived to see yet another year pass by and no matter what we have been through we are once again filled with hope to … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, book, books, children, chocolate, Christmas, Christmas Eve, dinner, dress, Dubai, faith, family, goodies, Hanukkah, happy holidays, heart, husband, joy, kids, life, local, memory, new year, peace, remember, Santa, Santa Claus, shop, smile, story, supermarket, sweets
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“Fight, fight. That Is Life.”
Oscar Wilde wrote: “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” When I was young and still in school I was such an idealist. … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, beginning, bliss, book, books, children, civil war, coach, cruelty, D.H. Lawrence, dark, death, destruction, dream, emotions, existence, fight, friends, happiness, life, love, news, Oscar Wilde, paradise, parent, peace, people, priest, promise, read, relationships, soul, story, successful, teacher, truth, wealth, words, young
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