Sometime at the very end of the 20th century I moved from Geneva, Switzerland to Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was my first leap into the “far […] Read More
Category: Society
I have lived long enough in the United States to know for a fact that Americanness is a many-faceted thing. Along with inspiring facets, disturbing […] Read More
Today we are celebrating India’s Independence Day. Appa‘s country was freed from British rule on August 15, 1947 at midnight. I always find it striking […] Read More
So much is happening and shifting in the United States right now that merely keeping up seems like a full-time job. Like countless others I […] Read More
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
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
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