Tag: Immigration
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Planning My Wedding 3 Years After Getting Married
Last night I dreamed that it was time for me to walk down the aisle, but I couldn’t find my mascara and I wasn’t ready yet. All the guests were assembled, standing in front of their rows of white chairs on the lawn of the small vineyard, peering around expectantly. In my small dressing room…
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The Bravery of Our Past Selves
And what we’d say if we could send them messages I was going to write about something else today but my self-of-one-year-ago kept popping up so I decided to write about her instead. Raja and I have gone through such a major transition – moving from Jordan to the US – in the last year…
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What Immigration Forms Don’t Capture About Love & Marriage
December 2020-Amman, Jordan It is morning again. The sun is mercifully warm enough, for December, when I sit directly in it. There are only two times I can feel warm in a day: when sitting in the morning sun, next to my husband who’s wearing his blue pajamas, looking for Palestine sunbirds out the window,…
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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…
Curious Georgie 
–مرحبا سلام Thank you so much, what a lovely comment to receive! I think you’re right; we can’t always be…