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Nov.20.2010
The 4th Thursday of November is definitely the bestest holiday. Food, Family, Friends and Football. Four of the five Fs. I most fondly remember the Thanksgivings of yesteryear. The big old family reunions, which I looked forward to, until about five seconds after I hit the front porch, then it...
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Nov.18.2010
There was a time when life wasn’t worth living; when I was in Serbia and sniper bullets sizzled past my ears, when Turk soldiers pointed their riffles at me and unsnapped their trigger safety’s, when an untrustworthy acquaintance reported I’d trafficked drugs and Croatian police confiscated my...
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Nov.02.2010
WHAT DOES THANKSGIVING REALLY MEAN
The 11th of October, was Canadian Thanksgiving. For the majority of Canadians, and I believe it is safe to include our neighbors to the South, a Thanksgiving celebration means a huge meal that includes turkey and pumpkin pie. A search on the internet with the...
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Sep.10.2010
I confess that, before this summer, I had never read the Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk despite having bought his Snow when the English translation was published in 2004. The novel sat on my shelf, unopened, not because I dreaded reading it but because I had moved on to other books. When I...
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Aug.05.2010
There was a time when life wasn’t worth living; when I was in Serbia and sniper bullets sizzled past my ears, when Turk soldiers pointed their riffles at me and unsnapped their trigger safety’s, when an untrustworthy acquaintance reported I’d trafficked drugs and Croatian police confiscated my...
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May.23.2010
NABLUS, West Bank — During the Palestinian intifada, I sat on a dusty hilltop overlooking this most violent of West Bank towns with a dozen of the top Israeli officers in the area. The brigade commanders told their regional chiefs that all the police work and house-to-house fighting of the intifada...
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Mar.02.2010
This weekend’s live-recorded call in the Dialogue2010 series left me reeling. Ten women scattered in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Italy and four U.S. states came together to discuss mapping the hybrid life, moderated by Rose Deniz.
The hour was early for those of us in Europe and Asia so we could...
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Jan.22.2010
JERUSALEM — The American humorist Caskie Stinnett once wrote that “a diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.” In other words, someone who doesn’t make his meaning so clear that one is both afraid of the trip to hell and angry...
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Jan.19.2010
Three years ago today an assassin's bullet killed Hrant Dink. Three shots fired into the back of his head.
Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian, journalist, editor-in-chief and one of the founders of Agos, the first Armenian-Turkish newspaper published in Turkey, died in broad daylight on the streets of...
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Jan.18.2010
Last week I was honored to be included in a group of Cross-cultural and International Bloggers to Watch in 2010. This week as the guest curator in a review series at SheWrites, I'm pleased to note a few fellow expat bloggers. Members of the Ning network's blogging group can read it here.
I'm drawn...
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