Retirement communities are not all alike. Before making a choice about where to live, you must understand the basic options, how they differ and how these differences affect your lifestyle. The question is: What kind of living situation do you want? I am writing this just after a disturbing experience. The woman I chose to […]
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For a whole day I cried while watching the same newsreels over and over, the pictures of Beirut in a mushroom cloud, in flames, in flying shards, in broken walls and tumbling cars, her stunned people covered with blood. I will not attempt to tell you what happened that day or since, but it seemed […]
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I have a question: is there anybody out there for whom 2020 is the year you dreamed of? Or planned for? Or, ok. . .just expected? I don’t mean to be silly or to rub your face in your disappointment, but I just want to establish that I am not the only one who is […]
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A sweet woman named Lois lived across the street from us for about ten years. She and I used to take our afternoon walk together, going all the way to the end of our road where there was a closed gate. She taught me that you have to touch the gate or you can’t claim […]
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So much has happened in the short time since I finished Helping Yourself Grow Old. I read the page proofs in defiance of my knowledge that it is nearly impossible for a writer to accurately proof-read her own work. (Our brains tend to see what we meant to say, missing little things like transposed letters.) […]
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“The mayors of Bethlehem and Wadi Foquin are traveling to Washington, D.C. to tell Congress how illegal Israeli settlement expansion impacts the daily life of Palestinians in their communities. You can help make sure their voices are heard! Contact your members of Congress and ask them to attend the Tuesday, November 14 Hill Briefing “Israeli Settlements, Bethlehem […]
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On October 19 on the evening newscast, NBC reported these words out of North Korea: “Negotiation is only possible if America’s nuclear weapons are also on the table.” Days later the words are still ringing in my ears, in spite of perpetual static on every other topic imaginable. I have heard over and over […]
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Donald Trump’s belligerent words in the United Nations have made plain our desperate need for a Department of Peace. For months Trump and Kim Jong-un have been exchanging taunts like school-yard bullies over North Korea’s testing of nuclear weapons. And now the president in his first appearance before the United Nations, has told the […]
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If you are a peace lover or if you are concerned about the millions of people made homeless, even stateless by Middle East wars, this message could be important to you. I have made a major change in the status of my book. The opportunity came to me to distribute the ebook version of […]
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Fuller spent many years in the Middle East. She puts a face on the Middle East many Americans have not yet seen. Her award-winning memoir, ‘In Borrowed Houses’, gives readers a penetrating glimpse of the Middle East from the inside Author Frances Fuller [Wilmington, NC August 22, 2017] Recently King Abdullah of Jordan met […]
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