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Possibility, coincidence, inspiration.

The world is full of possibility.  And coincidence.  And inspiration. I don’t know where to start.  I feel naked; no less than three times this week have I felt that thoughts have been pulled directly from my head.  It is that same phenomenon of exposure that inspires me to write…and to read.  The book I’m […]

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The Unbearable Lightness of Feeling Ordinary

When do we lose that childlike excitement at traveling?  That excitement, so easily inspired in me just 10 short years ago by a trip to Disney World (and I’d been abroad by that point), has ceased to exist.  The last time I felt it was Prague, but then could Prague inspire anything less in anyone? […]

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Secularism ≠ Racism

I really wasn’t going to blog about this.  It’s been done to death – even PostGlobal covered it four times yesterday.  An Iranian, an Emirati, a South Korean, and a German all weighed in, all with different opinions.  I covered it yesterday for Global Voices as well, quoting several Arab-Americans, as well as a white […]