I had such a lovely afternoon today chatting with another mother. Our children played together while we talked,over delicious iced water, about our families, migrant issues, refugees and childhood memories . L is two years younger than I am, and earned simultaneous degrees in law and chemistry , did education work with Aboriginal peoples, [...]
Archive > June 2011
Disagreeing with K
I have a bone to pick with Kierkegaard. It has to do with the kind of risk that K ascribed to Abraham, as he stood with his knife over his son on Mount Moriah. K sees Abraham’s choice as a “leap of faith”- a leap that transcends ethics, which to K was a [...]
U-turns
June marks the the end of our first homeschooling term. We’ve been taking plennnty of breaks in between; mostly because of fields trips, extra classes and playdates. Those have been good interruptions, depending on whether you see them as punctuations in the whole composition that is homeschooling, or as part of the script. We [...]
On writing behind walls
Not long ago, a writer came up to me and fervently said that experience was necessary in order to write well. By experience, she meant traveling and seeing places, interviewing people and spending days among communities whose lives are different from ours. I look at the homeliness of my existence and wonder if this is [...]
