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Tag Archives: opportunities
“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
When I was a little girl, I wanted to become a teacher so badly. Every day after school I used to come home, wear my mom’s high heel shoes, arrange my dolls on my bed and pretend I was their … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, autumn, blue, books, children, death, Dubai, e-book, education, family, green, Henry James, hero, life, literature, love, Middle East, mother, novel, old, opportunities, orange, pain, parents, purple, quotes, reading, season, signs, sorrow, story, student, teacher, teenagers, Toni Morisson, world, writing, yellow
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It Was Just The Beginning
Mother’s day, May 8th 2011, Montreal. I am having coffee with my daughter. It is a beautiful day outside, sunny and warm. At last after what seemed like an endless cold and wet winter, we are able to go out … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, AUB, Beirut, books, Canada, children, country, e-book, East, education, Ernest Hemingway, family, father, graduation, hero, Jean Paul Sartre, killed, Lebanon, life, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, mother's day, novel, opportunities, parents, quotes, reader, reading, signs, sniper, story, teenagers, University, West, world, writing
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Am I Missing Something?
I was born and raised in Lebanon and lived much of my life in Dubai. In 2006, when we moved to Canada, I vowed that I was not going to listen or watch news about the Middle East because it … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Albert Camus, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Amazon, Amazon UK, books, Canada, children, Dubai, e-book, education, Egypt, English, experience, family, father, French, journalist, language, Lebanon, Libya, life, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, Norman Mailer, opportunities, parents, Quebec, quotes, reader, reading, school, school boards, signs, story, teenagers, world, writing
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Have You Ever?
Have you ever experienced a moment when a simple yes or no would have made a difference in your life and yet for some unknown reason you have not been able to say it? And that single word has cost … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, book, books, children, death, dream, e-book, editor, experience, family, father, journalist, Lebanon, library, life, literature, love, Middle East, Mitch Albom, mother, Nicolas Sparks, opportunities, Oscar Wilde, parents, promises, quotes, reader, reading, reporter, signs, story, teacher, tomorrow, Twitter, women, words, writer, writing
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