Fàilte gu Alba [July 30, 2019]
It was in a zombie-like state that we landed in Edinburgh on account of little-to-no sleep (the usual conditions of flight), teenager-induced fury (can you be fined for leaving your light on, shuffling a deck of cards on a darkened airplane), and Air Canada Rouge (no more need be said).
Still, we were excited (and, in my case, relieved to have avoided murder-by-card-shuffle)… [more]
[On language, February 18, 2019]
The beauty of a phrase like
(خط کشیدن (دور
to draw a line (around)… is the easy image–the visualization of a purposeful (and complete) mental boundary… [more]
[On family, August 20, 2018]
I didn’t know until I opened it that it was my grandparents’ dictionary–those neat rows of page numbers corresponding to each English letter; the characteristic script, easily identifiable among Russian immigrants of a certain age… [more]
[On homecoming, October 26, 2017]
This was not supposed to be an emotional trip, but there it was. There it was: unexpected heartache, nostalgia, loss.
Everything began and ended in Vienna… [more]
[On blizzards, December 15, 2016]
during this first and sudden blizzard,
when a normally 30-min drive home took 2.5 hours… [more]
[On Quebec, September 10, 2014]
It was a lovely place–beautiful, serene, and French–and we had a wonderful, peaceful time, eating under the sky and roasting potato on the fire. But on the way there, almost everything that could go wrong, did… [more]
Danish Odyssey [May 21, 2014]
My leg of the odyssey began in the airport with the calling of passengers “Jensen” and “Benson”… [more]
Jewish Christmas during a power outage [December 30, 2013]
I should be clear: We did not lose power during the freak ice storm of yesterweek… but the rest of my family did, along with a very large and unfortunate number of others… [more]
the blizzard that was [January 7, 2012]
halifax beckoned in late november with a conference for one and a much-needed change of scenery for the other… [more]
Photo by Davood Ashrafi
Inna Rasitsan 