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Alexis, Julia & The Mobile Homecoming Project
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.†That quote from June Jordan introduces folks to the website for Mobile Homing http://www.mobilehomecoming.org an amazing project developed by two young women, Alexis and Julia. They describe themselves as responding to “a deep craving for intergenerational connection.â€Â When we met this week end we affectionately called it […]
Where Are the Egyptian Jews?
You will find no Jews in Tahrir Square. Or in Mansoura, where Grandfather Wahba had a drug store. I scan the architecture on CNN looking past the screaming demonstrators. I want to see Egypt, Dad’s Egypt, and imagine what he would be saying about the situation today, almost four years since he died. Egypt is […]
I Miss La Rondalla like I’d Miss a Woman
I know it was just a restaurant but I miss La Rondalla like I’d miss a woman. Voluptuous, gritty, innocent and knowing. Plastic flowers in her hair. Dressed up in gossamer Christmas lights along side photographs of men with guns and small game trophies. Diane and I used to go regularly—I was pork and chicken […]
Worse than The Farhud
“I survived Baghdad to get cancer”? Mom says ironically as we drive to one of the many medical appointments. We do most of our talking in the car, driving to and from the doctors. Today it is with a Dr. Rossman, a hypnotherapist highly recommended for his work with people struggling with life threatening illnesses. […]
Performative Sexuality
Not being an academic I rarely have the opportunity to use the word ‘performative.’ And it feels good. It conveys the sense of taking a familiar idea to a higher level of significance. With a word like ‘sexuality’ already fairly weighty in US culture you can only go to the head of the class by […]
Martin & Coretta have been to the Mountaintop
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968 I was a teenager sitting in my bedroom. I remember that as clearly as the assassination of JFK. I sobbed and naively thought that his death would mean the country would wake up and repudiate the racism and violence that plague the country. How […]
Apocalypse? …Later
Have you heard this? About the apocalypse coming on 3.21.11? I’m only asking because it seems like we should have heard something by now, that date is not that far away. It’s even closer than the 2012 Mayan shut down date. I saw the movie “2012†and it was not pretty! I hate to start […]
Tasting India
I was almost six — I desperately wanted to taste India again. The bottle of gripe tonic water sat next to Dad’s 4711 Cologne on top of the large tansu (Japanese/bureau) in mom and dad’s bedroom. I stared at it. The tonic was very precious, it was the only thing that calmed my baby brother’s colic. […]
Jewelle Takes Tea
I grew up in Boston so I’ve been drinking tea since I was about 10 years old. My great grandmother used to sip from a Brown Betty tea pot that perched on the back of the stove all day! I love sitting down to a ‘cuppa,’ as they say in Great Britain, especially with a […]
Oh, Immortal Food!
I became a writer for several reasons. Originally it was so I could meet girls, but I’m married now and Diane is not that interested in me bringing fans home! Then there’s being a part of progressive social change. I grew up in the 1960s when poetry and revolution were intrinsically linked. Going through the […]
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