A pleasurable task

There’s a chore on my to-do list. It is time-consuming and requires care and attention, but unlike cleaning bathrooms and doing the laundry, it is filled with nothing but pleasure and excitement, because my chore is to pack for our trip to Thailand.
It will be our first time there, and we are all very excited. I [...]

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Blue sky and fried fish

The other day my cousin, my little girl and I made the twenty-minute trip to Omoa, the little village where the Fort of San Fernando de Omoa is located. The sky was blue and the mountains green, and they were more beautiful than I remembered.

 
 
 
From the fort we went for a walk on the beach…

and had a delicious [...]

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My flying-with-a-toddler checklist

I had an idea for a book once, and if my life had not taken several unexpected turns, I might have pursued it. It was supposed to be a guidebook for new mothers, a manual of practical advice based on the things I found I needed when my daughter was born.
When I was pregnant I [...]

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Wait Till They Get My Letter

The flight from Lahore to Abu Dhabi is like a bus ride. The only things missing are the armpits in your face and the elbows poking your back. The airlines use older planes on this route and the flight attendants don’t even bother to be polite. They almost throw the food at you and every request is greeted with a [...]

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A bit of earth

We got back into town late last night, after spending several days at my husband’s family farm. It is a four-hour journey, and the traffic is scary, but we braved the nighttime onslaught of passenger buses, over-loaded trucks and daredevil drivers just to sleep in our own bed.

The land has been in my husband’s family for [...]

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Lahore Fort, Lahore, Pakistan

These are some pictures from our visit to Lahore Fort, from early March. Excavations at the Fort have yielded artifacts dating back to around 1070 B.C.

This is the entrance to the Fort, opposite the Badshahi Mosque, of which unfortunately I don’t have a photo. It was a hot and sunny day and with a child in tow we [...]

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