Growing up the way I did, I never really felt attached to one particular place, I never felt grounded or secure. I grew up with the feeling that the rug was always about to be pulled from under me with every posting announcement. I have never gone back to the countries I have lived in …
I have been thinking about him a lot lately, his story, his words, everything about him, in fact, every once in a while, when I feel angry, I think of him. You see, a long time ago, when I was in grade 10, we had to read Anne Frank, if you haven’t read it, you …
After 7 years of my early life being abroad, my first experience of Canadian wilderness was at our family cottage. Having had no freedoms, having never seen a forest or a clean lake, we spent a hot ride in our Ford Ltd, packed to the brim with bedding, food, water and books. My Father would …
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There I was, sitting in my hairdressers hot seat, chatting away with a cup of tea in hand, as he began chopping my hair. I had been going to the same salon and hairstylist for a couple of years, I was pretty loyal to him. As we chatted about work and stress, I began telling …
He turned and said “Everything is different, Diplomacy will never be the same again.” My Father and I were sitting on the couch, watching the one symbol that summed up my Father’s career. The Berlin Wall. I watched grainy footage of various long lost family members embracing, crying, laughing, reuniting after an excruciating separation by …
I am not sure why I decided to say yes, it had been a struggle to get my life back on track after my Father’s death, but there I was, in the building I named “the chocolate cake” when I was a kid. The ugliest building in architectural history, a ghastly chocolate-brown building, that looked …
It’s hard to describe that feeling of not belonging. No matter how much you try, you don’t really fit in with any tribe. I have tried, to find who I am, but the years of cold war spook conditioning isn’t easy to beat. My Father was a product of his time, he joined the service …
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Via Somewhere along the line, I learned that the word Diplomat was a taboo word, a career that no one really wanted to know about, at least the truth about, or a vocation that people knew existed, but had some bizarre notion of what the life of a Diplomat really was. In the news, friends, …
I was a little miffed today, after talking to my neighbour, we somehow got on a conversation about the election in the U.S. I find myself having a hard time talking about politics lately, I just don’t want to be negative. He began to go on about how one of his close friends is hoping …
