“Elemental.” Water feature in a city park, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 13 November 2010.
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Translated from the German: “The soul lives on.” In the Cemetery of the Nameless, Vienna, Austria, 30 November 2009. This image isn’t directly related to my NaNoWriMo novel, but I am getting to a place in my novel where I might start writing about cemeteries, and the Friedhof der Namenlosen has become for me aContinue reading “Photo blog 29”
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Many thanks to my old college friend, Erin Hostetler, who drove me out to Concord in the snow to see Walden, the graves of the Alcotts, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, and this, the house in which Hawthorne lived and wrote.
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“Night and Day.” Neighborhood mosque in Hadbat al Zafaran area, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 21 & 22 January 2009. Ramadan mubarak!
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Ramadan mubarak!
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Ramadan kareem! * Because we’re in the midst of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, I thought I’d spend the next few weeks posting images related to Islam and our country of residence, the United Arab Emirates. Stay tuned for more.
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“Caught in the act.” Jennifer Snoek-Brown (catching me taking candids) in De Kroon Café, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 20 April 2010.
A Writer’s Notebook: A blank page
I spent part of this week in the hospital for a bleeding ulcer. Nothing life-threatening, but it did threaten to interfere with our travel plans. The good news is that it didn’t, and today, I am traveling. But those two things combined–the ulcer and the travel–have left me with a blank page for this week’sContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: A blank page”
