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Back to the beginning

I returned to the place where I wrote my first blog posts, twelve years ago. This was also my first work travel since before COVID. Hazy reflection ensues.
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Writer in exile: 101st blog post

“‘A writer is always in exile,’ she said, this is what pushes him or her to write. ‘It doesn’t have to be geographical.’” From Journalist Olivia Snaije’s interview with three Syrian and Iraqi women writers living in exile: Samar...

Monrovia, Liberia

I’ve been so bad about keeping in touch that I thought I’d start a blog.  Seven years now I’ve been running around the world with this very strange job, and I’ve been so busy...