Today’s Bastille Day, France’s national day, or “le Quatorze Juillet” as we call it plainly in France. The reference to the Bastille prison that was […] Read More
Category: Family & Parenting
The Arab of the Future, Riad Sattouf’s graphic memoir of growing up between the Middle East and France, has caught some attention here in the […] Read More
In a different era, one that ended over a month ago for us, Minette and I used to talk and fantasize about what super power […] Read More
After talking about his mother, the ice queen from Ukraine, and his father, the dreamer from Lithuania, we now focus on Eli’s growing up as […] Read More
It is warm but not yet hot as we are going up the path leading to the ancient Jain temple. We started our excursion early […] Read More
Last time Eli talked about his mother, the ice queen from Ukraine. Now we focus on his father, a warm-hearted dedicated Communist who never renounced […] Read More
We have entered a zone of turbulence. English, French, and Tamil used to coexist peacefully in Minette‘s mind and life. Now things have become somewhat […] Read More
Eli is Appa‘s closest American friend, as well as a dear friend to me. He also happens to have a multicultural background of his own. […] Read More
Benigna Munsi is 17. She was born in Nuremberg to an Indian father and a German mother. Last October she was chosen to be the […] Read More
In this second part of her interview Tomoko talks about going back to Japan some day and she opens up, a little, on her personal […] Read More