Updates on my new guest posts live at the expat+HAREM and The Displaced Nation as well as the Alice Award I won, and more!
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My First Guest Post of 2011: Dreamcatchers
My first guest post of the Year of the Rabbit goes live! Here’s hoping blog posts breed like bunnies. 
From The Love Letter Project to The TripWire
The Love Letter Project was originally a series of love letters written on the free postcards found everywhere in Seville, Spain. I used to write the letter to real and imaginary people, friends, whomever inspired one. When I moved to Granada, Spain I couldn’t find the postcards anymore and translated the Love Letter Project into…
A Woman Under The Influence
“Let them eat cake,” said Marie Antoinette and that is just what I have been doing. I know, I know, I have horrible allergies and normally I cannot eat cake, sugar or bread. However, last week at our friend Ali’s birthday party I was given food that contained not a small amount of sugar and…
My Uncle Survived the Tsunami and Other Reasons Why I Don't Like the Beach
I had no idea until I met him that my Uncle Vasantha had survived the Tsunami that hit Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004. I remember when the Tsunami happened there was an absolute feeling of chaos and powerlessness that hit our household. We sat, stunned, watching the waves crash over Sri Lanka and were…
Violence against women and children is a horrible worldwide scourge, but there is no evidence of it in our country (or the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Reports on the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights, April 7, 8, 2005)
On April 7 and 8 the Commission continued discussing Item 12 on the Integration of the human rights of women and the gender perspective: a) Violence against women, and judging by the interventions made by both Member and Observer States, although violence against women is widespread and horrific, it doesn’t seem to happen in any…
A cattle prod showers sparks in Room 17 as government delegates watch on laughing (or the Fourteenth Report on the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights, April 5, 2005)
Discussion today continued on Item 11, Civil and political rights, including the questions of: a) Torture and detention, b) Disappearances and summary executions, c) Freedom of expression, d) Independence of the judiciary, administration of justice, impunity, e) Religious intolerance, f) States of emergency, g) Conscientious objection to military service, with some of the most disturbing…
The View from Above (or the Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Reports on the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights, March 31, April 1, April 4 2005)
From their vantage point of everywhere and nowhere, the Spirits watched on closely as the human beings gibbered and jabbered away like their primate cousins. For the Spirits, talking is one of the human activities that interest them the least (unless, of course, the Spirits are being invoked), but these particular weeks of talking are…
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