Comments on: Thousands of Miles Away from Home

By: Rima

Rima — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:16:11 +0000

hey simon, thanks for the comments! i appreciate you reading, really. the images that are conjured up are slightly beyond my control :)

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:35:07 +0000

This is such a nice piece; amazingly candid, sincere, nostalgic, and funny …
I particularly loved those tiny but wonderful and funny images, like: “riding on my grandpa’s back at just a year old with an unlit cigarette squeezed between my teeth”, “I was, being dragged – for the *whole* summer”, “unapologetic staring”, “Everything that I ate tasted like it was glazed with heaven-love”, “everyone poked me to tell them stories so that they could get a kick out of my slaughtering of the language”… it makes the reader live those moments, and laugh :)

By: mary

mary — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:46:47 +0000

this was nice to read….i remember the first time landing in 1991…there were guys doing the dubke on the way out of the plane! it was so amazing to be home for the first time…i will never forget it.

By: Miray

Miray — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:57:23 +0000

I almost forgot to tell you the pic of you guys is amazing, uncle Tony looks so young and Christine is so cute!

By: Miray

Miray — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:56:19 +0000

Wow Rima, that was incredible, just simply beautiful, got tears in my eyes and you got me missing my Lebanon even more now

By: Fouad

Fouad — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:18:41 +0000

Hey Rima

Lovely entry. I totally understand what you mean by that feeling you get flying over lebanon. I find it hard to breath when it gets that emotional. Then again, I’ve only been back twice in the past 9 years… Wonderful.

Maroun, for once give some feedback on the entry, we all know it’s Moussa’s castle… Ya kalb.

By: Silvia

Silvia — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:27:30 +0000

I reread your post and owe you an apology. I commend you on your courage to move to Lebanon.

By: Silvia

Silvia — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:18:57 +0000

Great entry…but I always wonder about Americans (particularly first generation), of all cultural backgrounds, who wax nostalgic and praise to no limits the lands of their ethnic roots. Why not permanently reside there if it’s so fantastic? Where is the critique?

An Immigrant to the US

By: tracy

tracy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:36:35 +0000

I loved this Rima. You captured some of my memories in there too. It makes me sad that people no longer clap when the plane lands. I remember once when there was a guy at the back of the plane even playing his oud when we landed.

By: Rima

Rima — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:38:12 +0000

Thanks Maria – that means a lot! (Though, sorry to add to your homesickness…) We’ll definitely catch up in December… xoxo