The blankets are all over the floor even though I prefer them folded and put away when they aren’t in use. I have like five pillows from the bedroom that have ended up in the living room over the course of the last few days, and I just haven’t bothered to move them. To my […]
Tag: Christmas
The Mass Radicalization of the American Populace
Born in Nashville and having lived there for several years, I’ve been following the recent bombing very closely. The two blocks that were bombed look more like a street in downtown Aleppo than music city. Some of our family as far south as Murfreesboro could not make contact during Christmas and for forty-eight hours afterward […]
Quarantine, Day 37
Coming out of the Great Depression, one of the Civil Works Administration projects of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal was the construction of a small stretch of road through Bergen County, New Jersey and into lower New York State. It’s maybe one of the most beautiful drives you can take in this part of the […]
What Advent Isn’t
I have this sneaky suspicion that most Christians don’t really understand what advent is. Or, rather, it’s not that they don’t get what it is so much as they don’t get what it isn’t. Everybody – Christian or not – can tell you that the “reason for the season” is more than Santa and gifts […]
Silence of the Lambs, or what I like to call, Abdelqader Day
“Fouaaad. Fouaaad,” Soufianne chanted my name from his bike as I walked up to the gate of his house. Calling it a ‘gate’ makes it sound like a nice, walled-in community of some such. It’s technically the gate to the local fish market, of which the house is just conveniently connected. I yelled at Soufianne […]
When Christmas wasn’t “Christmas”
So, I’m going to be fairly straight-forward and just describe my trip point-by-point for the most part. It’s a little different from the posts I usually write, but I want to make sure I include everything. Happy reading. Here goes nothing. Bismillah. I left my site at 8:00am Christmas Eve on a souq bus bound […]
Merry Christmas
Christmas this year is a bit different without the Christmas trees and presents and what with being in a country where most people don’t really know what Christmas is at all. But that’s okay, because I have what I need and couldn’t be happier. Here is a little song I’ll be listening to quite a […]
