Tag Archives: immigration

Burn Your Maps

BURN YOUR MAPS As most writers are, I’m an avid reader that adores a good story and while books are my first love, movies are a close second.  So when I watch a movie that moves me the way Burn … Continue reading

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Hamilton: Showtime, Showtime!

Hamilton:  Showtime, Showtime! Many days I wake up with a song in my head — a message from a loved one, the universe, my Soul — often an answer to a question that’s been beguiling me, popping out of my … Continue reading

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One Year Later

And now a word from my sister on her life as of late: One Year Later…  It has been a little over a year since I married my safari guide husband. We’ve known each other for almost 2 1/2 years, … Continue reading

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Just Be Nice — #WATWB

Just Be Nice A few weeks ago, I found this copy of Philadelphia Magazine in the lunch room at work, left, thankfully, by a fellow magazine recycler who’d obviously enjoyed the issue and wanted to share — a nice guy … Continue reading

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Dear Mr. President-Elect

Dear Mr. President Elect My Greek immigrant grandparents arrived in this country sometime in the early 1920’s from Istanbul when it was still Constantinople, and while no one talks about it, I’m fairly sure they didn’t just leave, but escaped. … Continue reading

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Xenophobia

Day 24 of the #AtoZChallenge Xenophobia But first — eXultation, as in, the feeling I am going to have when this freaking #AtoZChallenge is over! Until that time, however, I still have an obligation to X so let me just … Continue reading

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