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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 […]

By christina -- 2 comments

April 8th, 2008

Explaining this year’s Olympic torch relay to a five year old

The child in me was sad to hear they had to extinguish the torch five times (or was it more?) during the Paris leg of its symbolic journey to Beijing. The romantic in me is enamored of the idea, a single flame to travel the miles and light the night in faraway lands. How stunning. […]

By christina -- 1 comment