I haven’t been allowed to leave the house in three weeks. But today Grandmother puts fifty cents in my hand and tells me to go buy the little green peppers that she puts in the noodles. I run out of the house before she can change her mind. I look at the shoes in the doorway then check that no…
Several years ago I sat in a room full of women. It could have been a room in Halimah and Rania’s Khartoum home! I listened to them chatter, laugh, eat, relax, and play with the children. One mom broke off from the group to perform her Muslim prayers while her child pulled on her scarf and tried to get her to…
On Saturday evening Kris and I started out on what was supposed to be a research trip for me for a story I am writing. But we had so much fun it really just turned into a pretty cool date night. We went to an area of our island called the Clan Jetties. The Hokkien people in that area of…
