Category: Remember COVID?
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If It Was Just The War
Medford, MA – April 2020 It is hard to watch COVID-19 unfold everywhere because you know it will get worse, and there is nothing you can do. I feel helpless watching the case numbers go up and up. The tree outside my window is blooming with tiny white flowers. It’s beautiful. I wish I knew…
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When I’m in America, I Miss My Husband
And when I’m with my husband, I miss America. Woburn, MA – May 2020 As I wrote last week, at the end of 2019 I moved back to the US after living in Jordan for four years. I moved in with my sister and other housemates in Medford, MA, a suburb of Boston. About two…
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Uncertainty: The Most Certain Thing Now
Medford, MA – April 2020 At the end of 2019 I moved back to the US after living in Jordan for four years (and after I quit my job working in Zaatari Camp). I moved in with my sister and other housemates in Medford, MA. About two months later, the pandemic upended everything, and Raja…
Curious Georgie 
–مرحبا سلام Thank you so much, what a lovely comment to receive! I think you’re right; we can’t always be…