I step out to our street today and freeze at the sidewalk. In front of me rests a red Honda Civic Hatchback, identical to the first new car I...
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19 Aug, 2016
viva la causa…
19 Aug, 2016
While visiting a local bank, I catch sight of a wall filled with drawings by children. Each poster is a reminder of history; this one is a remembrance of...
Read more10 Nov, 2015
07 Nov, 2015
a passing conversation…
07 Nov, 2015
I don’t go to Home Depot very often, but I dropped by today to exchange a toilet seat. As the woman behind the counter processed my exchange, she threw...
Read more11 May, 2015
afterwards…
11 May, 2015
audience members at the Baker Ripley Community Center; photo by Paul Hester A month has floated away, and I’m still processing my What Is Home? production, one that took...
Read more30 Apr, 2015
people don’t talk about the necessity of crossing…
30 Apr, 2015
Karen Martinez, a filmmaker and a recent college graduate, talks about “home” and crossing borders: Houston is my home. I was born in Tula, Hidalgo – Mexico – and...
Read more25 Apr, 2015
another assassination…
25 Apr, 2015
July 2007: L: Sabeen Mahmud at T2F; R: I offer my first reading at T2F My mobile phone ringer goes off while I’m at a lunch meeting. I glance...
Read more14 Feb, 2015
“at home” is where you know people, where you have friends…
14 Feb, 2015
photo by Maha Shahid Based in Boston where my sister Beena Sarwar has been for the last four years, she’s happy to spend a week in Houston and get...
Read more12 Jan, 2015
i’d feel more at “home” here if there were more people involved in the arts…
12 Jan, 2015
In a conversation with one of my oldest and dearest friends, “Justin” (name changed for personal reasons), I’m not surprised to hear his words: My deepest feelings of “home”...
Read more16 Dec, 2014
no city feels like home…
16 Dec, 2014
My first afternoon in Delhi is at the IIC – the Indian International Center – at a lunch hosted by Professor Alok Bhalla and organized by writer Noor Zaheer;...
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