Dear Layla: A Reading in Cincinnati
Dear Cincinnati Friends, Eileen McGrath Mosher and Brett Vimtrup are hosting a book reading and signing of my recent novel Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine on Saturday 2 April. We’ll gather at 6541 Loiswood Drive…
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Dear Isabel (Letter/2)
Sunday 21 June 2015 Dear Isabel Page 2, paragraph 1 About your “fear of rejection”: Do you have a “fear of attraction” as well? I wonder how many people fell in love with you in…
Dear Isabel (Letter/1)
Saturday 20 June 2015 Dear Isabel What an honor to receive your letter. It could be published AS IS on a blog. You could give it as A TED Talk. (18 minutes!)
The Price of Peace by Rob Trousdale
I read Goldtooth on climate change while I contemplate buying new construction I read Maurin on simplicity while I lay 6.5 on the Knicks (-130) at the Garden I read Wolff on capitalism while I…
Chris
Some people are able to focus, laser-like, on one thing—athletes, musicians, scientists. For Chris Wallach, it’s mindfulness. It’s a gift. It’s a talent she’s deliberately cultivated over the last several years. It’s a whole set…
Lessons in Teaching by Erin
Erin recently started teaching as an adjunct professor at SLU, and gave me permission to share this. Teaching has been a very humbling experience. There have been many times I have felt insecure about…
What I Believe by Carol Wright
Carol shared this with me at our discussion at Cafe Ventana on Swami Prabhavananda’sThe Sermon on The Mount According to Vedanta… What I believe (or think I believe or feel I believe) that there is some…
Share the Wealth with Jason Makansi: Writing the Journey to the Center: Ethnic Delinquency, Young Adult Activism, Professional and Fiction Writing, and the Lifelong Struggle to Get What’s on the Inside to the Outside
It’s a great time to be half-Greek and half-Syrian! Never has my heritage been so aligned with the headlines. One country is the poster child for global economic failure, the other for geopolitical failure. Every…
Two Pages
Your book arrived today, just a few days after I ordered it on Amazon (and on a Sunday no less!) It looks beautiful and I couldn’t be happier for you I opened up to the…
Share the Wealth with Celine Dammond–Disability: Where Did It Come From and What Does It Mean?
What is the first image in your mind when you hear the word, “disability”? Take that image and imagine that disability can touch people anywhere, at any time, without boundaries. It is a part of…