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Whose Side Are You On?
When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way…
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On Hearing the Voices for Peace in Seattle
“Never again for anyone! Never again is now!”
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A Meandering Route to the First Alphabetic Sentence
From language to writing to hopeful words on a lice comb.
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Absentee Colonialism: A Fable
You occupy a land that was already a home to others.
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Another Feminist Wedge Issue
We shouldn’t be fighting amongst ourselves.
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Weird Travel Syndromes
They’re enough to make you want to stay home. Well, no they aren’t. But they certainly make you think.
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Marriage Contracts
I was listening to Weekend Edition on NPR the other day, and they were discussing the fact that in Israel, a woman cannot get divorced without her husband’s permission. Even a secular woman in that country is bound by this ancient Jewish practice. So if you have a vindictive husband with nothing to lose (the…
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Foreign Travel Advice for Americans
Recently my amazing nephew contacted me for travel advice. I have been to 19 countries to date, so he figured I’d have some useful information. I’d forgotten what it was like, planning my first overseas trip. Those were the days. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve made a lot of mistakes over the years, but I’d…
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Where is China, Greenland and the Whole of Africa?
Since I haven’t been able to afford international travel in the past several years, I travel vicariously by checking out the countries of origin of the people who visit my blog. WordPress is even kind enough to provide a nifty little world map, with the countries that have visited colored in for me. When I…