Sep 15 2009
What happens when I leave my children behind? The younger takes up skydiving. I don’t know whether I’m more afraid for her life, or envious. My older wee one, however, is being a model child (well, 30-year-old child) and has even mailed me two actual real tangible letters. I miss my habibee. (I learned that [...]
Sep 14 2009
Yesterday it rained. After school I came home and lit a fire in the woodstove. It’s starting to be fall already, with spots of pale yellow dotting the deep green of the woods, and leaves whirling off with every gust. The poison ivy winding up the tree trunks is scarlet. The sky was grey and [...]
Sep 11 2009
It’s raining in Vermont, and cold. Yesterday after school Kim and I tried to learn how to pronounce properly the name of our Iraqi classmate, Sabah. Success was partial. Get the Flash Player to see this content. This is my Russian classmate, Tatiana, who seems to be feeling a wee bit less homesick. I’m very [...]
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