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Essaouira Walking
http://www.essaouirawalking.wordpress.com
The adventures of loving from across the ocean, and an ode to the country that brought us together.
Recent Posts
Love—and an ode to our 5 weeks.
I’m back at home. Back in Jersey, wearing AK’s sweater and thinking of him, missing him to pieces. Back at home, with a mix of feelings that robs me from all energy. It’s always like that when I have to leave him back in Morocco, when I come b...
Morocco: and an ode to this month.
I am in Morocco. I have not forgotten about ESSAOUIRA WALKING. As a matter of fact, I am getting a lot of material to write about. I am having a blast. I apologize for disappering like that, but I will be back on rather soon. Thanks for hanging in th...
Happiness—and an ode to Pablo Neruda.
I can’t say that I like poetry. I don’t read it. I don’t enjoy it. But there are always exceptions. At least one. In my literature classes in high school, lessons on the work of Pablo Neruda were constant. An illustrious Chilean poet, one of th...
Happiness—and an ode to letting love drive you mad!
Pedro Calderón de la Barca once wrote “When love is not madness, it is not love.” I like him! I like him because I like letting love drive me mad to the point where I laugh to myself. I’m crazy in love today! I just called hi...
ESSAOUIRA WALKING—and an ode to its readers and visitors.
ESSAOUIRA WALKING is a very young endeavor, conceived only two months ago, exactly at the beginning of August. The idea for it came from a mixture of things: My relationship with AK is everything but ordinary and for that reason, I needed a channel ...
Books—Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and A House in Fez
I’ve just finished reading Hope. It’s an insightful, a heartbreaking story of what immigration does to people, not only to the ones that leap into the unknown country, but also to those who stay behind and wait for loved ones. In Hope, Halima, Fa...

