Solo Mother

May 15th, 2008

sixty years

My thoughts tonight are with the mothers who lost their homes sixty years ago… and with the mothers who gained a homeland.
I am thinking of my sisters in my heart, the women who claimed me as their own when I lived in Sharjah. Women whose mothers’ mothers hid them down the well when the […]

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September 25th, 2007

the state of (the three of) us, one year out

We still are not officially divorced. Something about money. It’s expensive to get divorced, though I’ve been pinching my pennies against the day. Obviously, this is not something that can continue, unresolved, indefinitely. There are new lives to build, new dreams to chase, and those old strings will need to be cut someday.
I have […]

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February 15th, 2007

How I spent my Valentine’s Day

Love isn’t overrated. Oh no. But the pressure to express love, and prove that you are loved, is, well… unnecessary. Don’t get me wrong, I

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