Tag Archives: poverty

On Being a Refugee

Posted on October 16, 2022 by Joel D. Hirst

I never expected to become so heavy of heart as I have found myself recently. I suppose it should not have come as a surprise, though it did. When we are growing up we are imbued with optimism. Our parents … Continue reading →

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The Arriving Ordeal

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

The Harmattan billows above blotting out the sun, dust coalescing with diluted traces of the acrid garbage fires that warm the ditch beyond the potholed road and the wood smoke from the last trees of the plains burned to cook … Continue reading →

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Book Review “No One Writes to the Colonel”

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Joel D. Hirst

Having read with some alarm my book review of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, my wife – who hails from Latin America herself – gave me for Christmas this year a copy of Gabo’s short story “No … Continue reading →

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