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Free Book Friday: Wolf Hall | Randa's Fans
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8230; a memory project. Why Randa’s Fans? Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit. Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers →. Free Book Friday: Wolf Hall. November 15, 2013. I like to support independent booksellers when I travel. For the past few years I’ve been fortunate to spend a good deal of time at my friend’s inn. Up in Woodstock, VT, and there are two great little book shops that I frequent right off the village green, Shiretown Books. And the Yankee Bookshop. 2009, Book One of her Thomas Cromwell Trilogy). No stri...
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Rush to the Middle: 3 weeks to go!
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Rush to the Middle. Follow us as we head to the Middle East and beyond! Sunday, May 31, 2015. 3 weeks to go! We are on the three week countdown: three weeks until we blow this popsicle stand and head back to the good ole US of A! The boys and I fly out first, for five weeks or so with my parents, and then the husband joins us (after Ramadan, natch, so as to fully enjoy the mandated shortened work days) for another five weeks or so at his parents' house. I will see what I can come up with! J is not smilin...
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Rush to the Middle: Last day before we leave!
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Rush to the Middle. Follow us as we head to the Middle East and beyond! Friday, June 19, 2015. Last day before we leave! So it's the afternoon before we leave, and I wanted to share with you my last minute checklist. Why? In no particular order (some of these I will be doing at 4:45am just before we leave but most are already done now):. Umm, what now? Fortunately, after a 45 minute. Phone call, I was able to get our tickets reissued, so now I should be able to check in online with no problems.right?
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Rush to the Middle: A break from our usual programming
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Rush to the Middle. Follow us as we head to the Middle East and beyond! Monday, November 3, 2014. A break from our usual programming. But this week, there has been something flying around Facebook and the web that I simply have to mention, but it's not primarily a political issue for me, actually, though it is definitely a political hot button out there in cyberspace. Really, have we fallen so far that we cannot even read for ourselves before we jump to judgment? February 9, 2015 at 4:18 AM. I'm a mother...
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Rush to the Middle: Faux Qatari
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Rush to the Middle. Follow us as we head to the Middle East and beyond! Thursday, June 4, 2015. Last week, I got the following note from J's Arabic teacher:. Greetings xxxxxxxx Parents,. On Thursday, June 4th your child will be participating in the Qatar Heritage celebration. Your child will need to wear his or her traditional clothes. Thank you for your support. And was he to wear these clothes to school or change into them later (they have done both)? And then I took a deep breath. He is definitely his...
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Rush to the Middle: I am the champion?
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Rush to the Middle. Follow us as we head to the Middle East and beyond! Sunday, June 7, 2015. I am the champion? Well, in a landslide victory, I was elected PTO/PTA president (apparently there is now some debate about the name). Did it hurt that I had emailed 10-15 teachers I know and 15-20 parents and sweetly. Asked them to come out and vote? No, it did not, particularly considering I had a high rate of return on my emails and there were only about 50 people there total. Score one for networking! Anywho...
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Rush to the Middle: Houses and heat
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Rush to the Middle. Follow us as we head to the Middle East and beyond! Sunday, June 14, 2015. I was listening to an interview on a podcast recently with a guy named Kaiser Kuo. It reminds me of when my Western-raised, Southern-transplanted parents moved us all to Hawaii when I was 10. My parents made a concerted, concentrated effort to get to know our neighbors, mainly those folks in our church congregation because there were very few neighbors (any? You know it's hot here, right? How hot is it? So hot ...
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Rush to the Middle: On ice?
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Rush to the Middle. Follow us as we head to the Middle East and beyond! Thursday, May 28, 2015. A few weeks ago, J came home all aflutter, thrusting a coloring page into my hands, and shouting, "We can win tickets to Disney on Ice! E also scribbled in his sheet, so J would have more chances he said.such a good brother! The cheapest seats were $44 a pop! The day of the raffle arrived and right after school I got this message from J's teacher:. Have a great weekend! And when J got off the bus, he proudly s...
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Rush to the Middle: We made it--get this party started!
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Rush to the Middle. Follow us as we head to the Middle East and beyond! Monday, December 23, 2013. We made it- get this party started! After a week of almost total craziness, it was a relief to finally make it to the airport. And, in fact, our flights turned out to be relatively uneventful and largely stress-free, with just a few exceptions. I'm sorry, unfortunate gentleman in aisle seat 1B, you will now be moving to a window seat in row two so I can be on the same row as these two small children! We had...
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Rush to the Middle: Gimme an E! Gimme a....wait, what was I spelling?
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Rush to the Middle. Follow us as we head to the Middle East and beyond! Sunday, December 29, 2013. Gimme a.wait, what was I spelling? Honestly, I have no idea. I am in a bit of a fog or funk or something these last few days, largely because I am seriously tired (hey, Jet Lag, punching below the belt isn't- oof! And life in Qatar is a series of daily adventures that seem to be taking a lot out of me. Which is not to say we haven't had our small triumphs, because we have! But they say a lot of things.)...
