Category: Family
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Just Keep Moving
Last Saturday, my mom walked 22 miles with her friends as part of an annual event at her gym called Day of Endurance. I’m beyond impressed with her and her friends, both for the walk itself and for the months of training they did to prepare for it! So I (more…)
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Where’s Home To You?
The table is still going strong. It’s a good table, and it’s held up all these years. My parents got their kitchen table for $50 at a garage sale thirty years ago, when they were students at Boston College. That was for the table and four chairs. A month ago (more…)
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Bon Voyage To My Lovely Clan
Arriving to my sister’s apartment, I always knock on the door and then open it without waiting for an answer, and it is always unlocked. My sister and her husband, having known I was on my way over, shout hello from wherever they are in the house. But my one-year-old (more…)
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The Story My Mother-In-Law Tells On Repeat
Fuheis, Jordan – October 2020 At home in Fuheis, on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan, my mother-in-law “Auntie Rula” paces through the dimly lit rooms. In the living room: a loop around the coffee table, stepping carefully over her husband’s feet while he sits on the couch doing Sudoku. Then (more…)
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I Wish My Mother-In-Law Knew My Name
Fuheis, Jordan – October 2020 Yesterday I took Auntie Rula for a walk around sunset time. There were little bits of pale yellow cloud swimming easily in the sky, lit up by the setting sun behind the old cement factory. We wandered up and down the steep, unyielding hills of (more…)
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