Category Archives: Family Challenges

The grassy keyboard and the glass shards remaining

Posted on August 14, 2012 by lizcameron

So submerged was I, that it wasn’t until the fiftieth glass shard ratta-tat-tattled tinkety way down into my lair below the typewriter keys and on down past the steel spines with noted curvature to the grass roots nestled just below … Continue reading →

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Of melekler and angels in the Haghia Sofya and beyond

Posted on April 6, 2012 by lizcameron

Last summer, M. and I stood with our niece in the Haghia Sofya in Istanbul, marveling at all of the art on the walls. Slipping her tiny hand into mine quietly, our niece said “I didn’t know there were angels … Continue reading →

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