Ten hours wasn’t long enough to see anything in Korea, especially at night. At least not for a single woman who didn’t speak Korean and was on her own. This post is one in a series of short posts including the number 10 in the first sentence, a requirement of the San Diego Writers andContinue reading “K is for Ten in Korea”
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J is for Ten in Japan
By the time I turned ten, I had read every book about Japan in my school library and the children’s section of the city library. I was determined to travel there some day. It took 16 more years for that dream to come true. This post is one in a series of short posts includingContinue reading “J is for Ten in Japan”
I is for Ten in Iran
I learned in Iran that referring to the future requires only three terms: tomorrow, after tomorrow, and in ten days. For the first year there, I persisted in behaving those terms meant the same thing as their English equivalents. Tomorrow to me meant the day after today. And after tomorrow meant a day or twoContinue reading “I is for Ten in Iran”
H is for Ten in Haiti
Haiti is in the top ten on the Global Slavery Index. Many of those in slavery in Haiti are children of poor families whose parents have given them to a host family with more resources, based on the assumption that their children’s lives will be better, with a possibility of receiving an education and goodContinue reading “H is for Ten in Haiti”
G is for Ten in Germany
Baden-Württemberg, the second largest of the ten German states that made up former West Germany, was the home of my maternal grandfather’s ancestors. I’ll bet the folks back there were scandalized when his father, my great-grandfather, returned from Iowa to pick up his girlfriend, eventually my great-grandmother, but he refused to marry her before theyContinue reading “G is for Ten in Germany”
F is for Ten in Fargo
I spent my childhood across the Red River of the North from Fargo, a city I had thought would always be on the bottom of the ten US cities others would never want to visit. I’m not sure how much the Cohn brothers’ movie Fargo had to do with the exceptional changes the city hasContinue reading “F is for Ten in Fargo”
Holidays Around the World: Ramadan
I chose Ramadan as the holiday to highlight in April not because it is so little known, but in order to share my personal experiences of living in countries where Ramadan is widely celebrated. These observations cover four countries in the world and span nearly 30 years. First, a basic description of the holiday asContinue reading “Holidays Around the World: Ramadan”
E is for Ten in Eritrea
Ten preteen boys surrounded me on one of the major streets of Asmara, Eritrea, as I waited for my friend Jewel’s tire to be changed. Not only was Jewel’s tire changed, but the remainder of my temporary duty time there changed as I spent every Sunday after that watching these boys and a few moreContinue reading “E is for Ten in Eritrea”
D is for Ten in Detroit Lakes, MN
Nothing really got going at the Pavilion in Detroit Lakes until 10 p.m. back in my late teen years. But my parents always insisted I be home by midnight. The 45-minute drive home left me little time to watch the activities, let alone get involved or in trouble. At least none I ever admitted. ThisContinue reading “D is for Ten in Detroit Lakes, MN”
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