The World is Burning

I’ve heard those words frequently in the last several months, “The world is burning.” It’s easy to feel that way. There’s a lot happening in our world. Problems are many, solutions are few. And many feel helpless. As a former new junkie it’s easy to fall back into the news cycle that regurgitates the same…

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The Land of My People

My daughter jokes and says, “I need to go to Dubai. It is the land of my people.” It isn’t.  But maybe something stirs inside her. Maybe she feels it.  And I wonder, which is the land of my people. I am an immigrant with a cacophonous mix of ancestors. All of them different from…

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What Do You See

It’s that time of year when winter seems to be dragging on. Add to the ice, snow and cold, the misery of this pandemic, and life may seem as bleak as the grey salted asphalt roads. Out for a walk the other day I saw a ditch. A ditch? You ask laughingly. She’s going to…

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