On Not Escaping the World

Should residing in an assisted living/ retirement home enable me to escape the chaos of the world? This may not be a question that anyone is saying aloud, but one that voices a secret hope, a need that has grown out of our weariness. A tough week caused me to wonder. Fires in California, the […]

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Speaking of Storms

Four birds sat in a tree. Three of them decided to fly. How many were left in the tree? (A small math problem taken from a Lebanese friend’s fb page this morning.)   But you wanted to hear about that storm in Texas. It was 1985. Our friend Maria Daoud had come home with us […]

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