A Meeting With Rabih Alameddine
In May 2010, I attended “A Meeting with Rabih Alameddine”, organized by the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature and ASSABIL, Friends of Public Libraries, which also coincided with the publication of...
Tagged: Existentialism
Soundtrack To My Life – Volume 1
One of the reasons I started this blog was because I wanted to be able to share the music that plays in the background of my racing thoughts with other...
Smoking And Alienation
My Dear Smoker Friends, I’m alienated by you. Beyond the nicotine addiction, you need to smoke for whichever reason you do. I need to not feel like I’m suffocating with...
What Do The Stories We Tell Say About Ourselves And Others?
“[…] As Adrianna Cavarero contends, we are dependent on each other to narrate our lives (1997) … The stories we tell about ourselves, about others, about world events, about the past,...
Nameless Faces
I’ve been thinking about creating an illustrated character and maybe adding a cartoon strip to my blog, as a means of expression through illustration. I thought it would be a...
Chess Board – A Matter Of Life and Death
She was stuck in traffic, amid lines and lines of stationary vehicles. It’s going to be a while, she thought with a sigh. Her iPod had failed her with its...
A Little Gem From The “Afterlives”
I don’t think I’ll ever stop singing the praises of David Eagleman’s superb collection of short-stories, “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.” I remember when I bought it, I was...
Moments Of Clarity
One of life’s idiosyncrasies is that our moments of clarity only come to us when we’re on our way to hitting rock bottom, or when we’d already been living there...
Bruises
We bruise easily, but the bruises don’t go away simply. They become scars that we carry from our past to our present and then to our future.
The Moment Of Truth
If there’s a moment of truth, it’s the moment you face yourself for all the things you are and aren’t, for all the things you want but don’t have, for...
