Invited to be present as a small book club met to discuss “In Borrowed Houses,” I answered some question by explaining that in Lebanon all the big political leaders had their own militias. The group could easily see that this created a ready-made civil war situation, and this caused a few people to feel immediately […]
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Two months ago I posted a blog called, “A Propitious Moment.” (You can see it on this page.) In that article I named six things I really want for our world, things I believe in enough to take a stand and sacrifice for. At the end I asked readers to comment, stating their own wishes. […]
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“On Sunday rain and sleet and snow fell all day and the hills around us turned white—from a few kilometers up the road, all the way to the top of Mt. Sunnin, and along the road to Damascus. Our house was oblivious to the cold.” This is the final paragraph of a tiny section called […]
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February 18, 2015 A CNN poll has come up with an astonishing statistic: 62% of the American people want the US to be neutral in Middle East conflicts! For fourteen years this country has been sending its young people into Afghanistan and Iraq to kill or be killed. We have been fighting dictators, defending the […]
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January 20, 2015 Today’s news from the Middle East resonates powerfully with emotional memories for people who lived in Lebanon during the era of In Borrowed Houses, and illustrates the way current events are the down-stream flow of what happened in the past. The Beirut Daily Star tells me that early today a sea of […]
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September 11, 2014 Thirteen years ago today I disintegrated in a way that surprised me and some other people. Even today I am reluctant to tell what happened (to the extent I even know), not because I am ashamed but because anything I suffered is trivial compared to the experience of those who had loved […]
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