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Cairo

We’d been dreading Cairo for a long time. Pyramids or not, it didn’t seem to please many people. Matt and Olivia vowed never to return. Koubi and Carey advised us to see the required wonders and get the hell out. Everyone told us that the chaos, the hassle, the pollution and the traffic was just [...]

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Beirut: Part One

We were rolling on a smooth highway. Mercedes’—some asphalt scraping and others probably purchased outright—wove past. Rob, the Dutch director of Inma Foundation, a group which helps disadvantaged communities of Lebanon, including Palestinian refugees, was at the wheel of this LandRover, positive energy sprouting from his expression.  Knopfler sang We Are the Sultans. . . The [...]

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Look to Your Left

In coming to Bulgaria, B & I have had a very belated, but better late than never musical awakening. It’s pretty simple, really. We began listening to something besides NPR and our early 80s and 90s favorites. This discovery includes the Allman Brothers. Their music makes all of life seem like that moment when your [...]

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Side Bar (See Left)

I guess I should start promoting my updates. . .This week’s includes: SuperBad: A movie I haven’t seen, but with a director name like Judd Apatow, it has to be good (like Smuckers!) NetVibes: Please blog-girlies, go there now. This is the ultimate tool to put all your favorite RSS Feeds in one spot–so checking [...]

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Sunday Scribblings: Slippery

Sunday Scribblings prompts writers all over the universe every Saturday on a particular topic. Then you post your passage. This time, the prompt was: “Slippery”. That’s all they wrote. So I did what’s called a Freewrite. . .be warned. We are talking very random here. Slippery First thing I think of is a Slip n’ [...]

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