A Note to My White Family and Friends by Tim Ghazzawi: As an English teacher, I know a thing or two about punctuation. Periods and commas, dashes and parentheses, semicolons and quotation marks. We use these things for different reasons, but mostly to give closure to our ideas and make […]
WiFi Passwords of the World by Tim Ghazzawi: I collected 77 different WiFi passwords over the course of my recent travels. Passwords from hostels, hotels, restaurants, cafés, airport lounges, and bus stations that span five different continents and eight months of time. I don’t remember why I began to save […]
My Journey Back to the United States by Tim Ghazzawi: I smiled and said, “Good afternoon,” though I didn’t expect or even want the same in return. All I hoped for was to pass as normal and ordinary and problem-free. I wanted to seem boring but not strange. Nice but […]
A Former Nazi Hideout – Murphy Ranch in Los Angeles, California The place is difficult to get to. I guess that was the idea. Murphy Ranch. Located along the Rustic Canyon trail, behind the Riviera neighborhood of Los Angeles. One Google reviewer describes it as: “A good place to go […]
Color in Sedona, Arizona and Patagonia, Chile by Tim Ghazzawi: Despite the fact that the most notable rock formations in Sedona are named after rather everyday things (bell, coffee pot, court house, and steamboat to name a few), its setting is anything but ordinary. Nor is it easily defined. Sedona […]
Stock Yards and Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas by Tim Ghazzawi: It’s what the sculpture’s called. Conjoined. At the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas. In the garden where patrons might wander after their visit. It’s designed by Roxy Paine and consists of two silver metallic trees […]
Visits to the Houses of Frida Kahlo and Pablo Neruda by Tim Ghazzawi: From the outside, her house is a high-walled compound, painted in a shade of blue similar to one Frida Kahlo herself once described in her diary as “electricity.” Its green windows and doorways are closed and barred, […]
A Boat Ride in Xochimilco, Mexico by Tim Ghazzawi: Their names are Gloria, Maria, Stephanie, and Yolanda. Painted in a neon rainbow explosion of color, these wooden trajineras (or gondolas) dock at the Xochimilco Canals outside of Mexico City, where they await their passengers for the day. It’s the floating […]