Lines
by AggieSoon
Taken last year on our trip down to Melbourne to see my in-laws. Via the Daily Post Photo Challenge: Lines
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Syrian Almonds in Sydney
by AggieSoon
There is a small, 40 seat restaurant in Darlinghurst. Opened by two sisters, Carol and Sharon Salloum, the place has delighted Sydney-siders for more than ten years with delicious Syrian food. Called the Almond Bar, the sisters wanted to showcase Middle Eastern cuisine and change perceptions of what it had to offer through their restaurant. They wanted to introduce more than kebabs and hommus — to show there was more to the food than something we ate after a big […]
Six Word Saturday
by AggieSoon
The beach was busy that morning. Head over to Debbie’s blog to see more Six Word Saturday entries!
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Prolific
by AggieSoon
There once were daisies outside our home. They grew and grew on our street. Maybe the council did not like them, because they are gone now. Prolific no longer. via the Daily Post Photo Challenge: Prolific
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Lessons of care and friendship
by AggieSoon
She was married for six months when her husband got the call. He was offered a job in Australia and he was going to take it. It was 1957 and Australia was half a world a way from Suffolk, the place where M was raised. “I don’t think I would have come to Australia if my husband didn’t get a job here,” she mentions in passing. For more than 25 years, she has been volunteering her time to teach English […]
Awakening
by AggieSoon
The sun rising on the city that never sleeps. It was taken one morning from my brother’s place in New York. We woke to sunlight streaming into the room. I grabbed my phone and I went outside to take the shot. I wish I could say the neighbourhood was waking up, but I could hear the traffic below and see cars already on the roads. It felt like many people were awake for a while. Via the Daily Post Photo […]
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After school conversations
by AggieSoon
It’s a four year old conversation. Our boy was in Grade 2. His teacher was asking the class to prepare a short talk every two weeks. “So,” I ask. “What are you going to do for your school topic talk this week?” “What I would do if I ruled the world,” he responds. “Oh, I see.” It’s a big job and he had never, until then, shown an interest in taking on grand projects. Thinking he’d provide free chocolate to […]
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Sometimes a girl just needs to dance
by AggieSoon
My grandmother passed away many years ago. We spent most of our lives apart in different countries. I wish I knew her better. Of the things I received after she died were old photos that my mother had sent her through the years. She kept them all. This one makes me smile. It’s me striking a pose before Voguing was a thing. I hope it made my grandmother smile too. via the Daily Post Photo Challenge: Smile
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Amok Catering: Cooking up a future for Cambodian Australian women
by AggieSoon
I met her at the local library a few weeks ago. She was a strong Cambodian woman. A survivor of the Pol Pot regime. She fled her homeland with her family when she was nine years old and spent more than 10 years in various refugee camps near the Thai border before arriving in Australia via a stint in New Zealand. She never had the chance to gain a proper education. What little English she learned before she came to […]
Six Word Saturday
by AggieSoon
Sometimes it’s fun to look up For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday
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Sunrise
by AggieSoon
There was a time when I rose with the sun to go for a walk. It happens less these days. via the Daily Post Photo Challenge: Rise/Set
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When a t-shirt makes you feel like a fraud
by AggieSoon
So… this came in the mail. I watched the movie last year and was moved by its message of friendship and love that looked beyond outward appearances to the quality of character of one unlikely hero. My husband, hardened by years of packaging real stories of death and horror for the news, sat there unmoved as my son and I bawled over some of the scenes. Since opening in 2017, Wonder, based on the book by R.J. Palacio, has spurred on many […]
