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I found this video on Jadaliyya, an English language Arab news and culture website. I agree with them that  TED talks have their problems ...

Sharing with you a creative non-fiction piece I wrote a few years ago. The Blue Purse As she turned away from her screen to tidy the kitchen...

These two photos illustrate the article I just wrote for New World Finn . This one is of my maternal Grandmother and Grandfather in their tu...

My workload has been keeping me too busy, cramming too many things into a day, so when I come across something that makes me smile, well, it...

Towards our last few weeks in Lebanon, I told my husband at least every other day, "I'm not leaving Lebanon without going to Baalbe...

My Mother-in-law's mantle On Thursday, July13, 2006, the writing that normally fills the da...

gate of my brother-in-law and sister-in-law's house in the village of Bishmezzine, Lebanon yellow jasmine shrub outside my mother-in-law...

In the summer of '63, our family, who consisted then of our Isa, Aiti, older sister, Katja, younger sister, Della, and me, the middle si...

S.S. Kresges was a five and dime store, which no longer exist, as shopping has changed. Kresges were the beginning of giving local businesse...

I left for my morning walk today at 9 am and returned at 3:30 pm. I had not realized it was -28 when I left, so although it was brilliantly ...

My Grandfather is a Postcard* but My Sister is a Paperdoll... Last night, my friends and my sister and I were talking paper dolls. Carol-Ann...

Last week I had to bring our car for a wheel alignment at Midway Alignment in Westfort (best price in town!) and I had one hour to kill whil...

I never did get a Barbie when I was a girl; my parents bought me Midge . My Midge had freckles and flipped out reddish ginger hair. I immedi...