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No Mrs. Obama I Cannot Answer Your Question

Posted on April 24, 2020 by chichikir

In November 2019 Michelle Obama published her book, “Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice.” The book (a journal) contains over 150 questions designed to help you the reader capture your own voice by reflecting on your personal and … Continue reading →

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We Can Never Forget!

Posted on April 21, 2015 by chichikir

Last night while watching the news on television I noticed how the media’s perspective has changed about the Armenian Genocide. For a hundred years the media referred to the genocide as “mass killings” and now they are not shy of … Continue reading →

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“The Parallel To Auschwitz”

Posted on April 20, 2015 by chichikir

In some of my previous blogs, I mentioned that I have stopped writing about the latest atrocities committed against innocent civilians in different parts of the world. As I have stopped to watch, listen to, or talk about politics and … Continue reading →

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When A Thing Is Wrong

Posted on September 6, 2014 by chichikir

Henry David Thoreau writes: “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” Many are the times when I make a promise … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow Is Going To Be Another Day!

Posted on July 27, 2014 by chichikir

Every night I go to bed saying to myself tomorrow is going to be another day and I will write about how beautiful nature is. How beautiful the trees, the flowers, the birds and everything are around me. Come morning, … Continue reading →

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In A Perfect World

Posted on July 13, 2014 by chichikir

In the book I am currently reading about dreams there is this question: “In a perfect world what would you like to be?” I close the book and think… If the world is perfect, then does it really matter what … Continue reading →

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In 200 Years!

Posted on July 3, 2014 by chichikir

Yesterday was a bad day for Gaza. And prior to that a bad day for Israel, when the bodies of three Israeli teenagers who had been kidnapped were found. A bad day, a bad week indeed for all of us, … Continue reading →

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Even Writing Can’t Calm The Dread!

Posted on June 26, 2014 by chichikir

Lately I often make myself promise to not watch the news, and I fail. If I don’t watch it on TV, I read it on the internet. I get so disturbed and lose sleep over the events taking place around … Continue reading →

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To Stay Or Leave?

Posted on March 14, 2014 by chichikir

Is it only me? Are you by any chance also troubled by this talk of referendum? During the past few days when I watch the news on TV and I listen to people talk about leaving Montreal and Quebec, to … Continue reading →

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Is It True?

Posted on January 30, 2014 by chichikir

Currently I can’t help but feel sorry for Justin Bieber, who is on the news for all the wrong reasons. These days people will do anything to become overnight celebrities. Take a look at the existing reality TV shows. Stardom … Continue reading →

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