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Apr.25.2013
I recently asked that question at a family dinner and my granddaughter replied "God is on the side of good." Out of the mouth of children, as the scriptures say. What a perfect answer. In fact, God does not take sides. God is not on the side of Israel, nor on the side of the Palestinians. God is...
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Dec.28.2012
ASK THE AUTHOR
1. WHERE DID THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CHARACTER OF ARI COME FROM?
An infant boy was found abandoned and brought to the Baby Home where I worked in Jerusalem. I loved this little fellow, who eventually was adopted by a kibbutz family. The grown-up Ari is a figment of my...
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Oct.13.2012
Farsi, better known as Persian, was my first foreign language. I learned it out of necessity after moving to Iran to live with my in-laws. I made an awful hash of it; calling my sister-in-law "Grasshopper" instead of her name, both words sounding the same to me. Eventually, I learned the day-...
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Sep.15.2012
About the only country in the Middle East that isn't throwing a hizzy and storming the local USA consulate or embassy is the State of Israel. Let me remind you that the USA still has its embassy in Tel Aviv, despite the fact that every presidential contender promises to move the embassy to the...
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Jun.07.2012
Agatha Christie has written a seldom read memoir titled Come Tell Me How You Live. She writes about accompanying her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan, on his expeditions in Iraq and Syria. Agatha is older than Max by about ten years, as I am with my husband Patrick, who is also an...
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Feb.12.2012
When did the mantra “never again” become “here we go again?” Here is one nation (Iran) vowing to wipe another nation (Israel) off the map. This intended destruction is based solely on religious hatred towards Jews. Iran and Israel share no borders, and Israel is not intent on stealing Iran’s...
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Nov.17.2011
I recently read Charles and Emma, The Darwins' Leap of Faith, by Deborah Heiligman (Henry Holt 2009). This is a delightful and surprising love story about Emma Wedgewood and her cousin Charles Darwin. They fell in love and married at age thirty. Emma was very much like Jane Austin's Emma in...
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Sep.30.2011
Benny's birth mother abandoned him during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Who was she? God only knows. I was his baby nurse at theWIZO Baby Home in Jerusalem. Benny and I bonded instantly, each with our own need to give and receive love. Before Benny turned two, a good family adopted him and I have not...
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Aug.09.2011
My life is literally an open book as I have written and published a memoir. Nevertheless, I lead a very private life, last year living in the faculty apartments of the university of Haifa with my husband, the archaeologist, (who is incidentally the real Indianan Jones, having been born and raised...
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Jul.28.2011
For some writers this is no big deal. But for me, a first-class techniphobe, this is a big step. My hope is that my Redroom blogs, infrequent as they are, will now appear on my Amazon.com author's page. So I will keep this entry short and to the point. With a new book coming out this fall, THE...
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Jul.16.2011
Abraham could be considered the first geniune Muslim, according to a lecture given at King's College in London, where I recently attended the Biblical Society of Literature with my husband. Of course, as a novelist writing Middle East thrillers, I was keenly interested in the section called "...
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May.06.2011
This past weekend, I attend the OCCW conference in Irvine, California and I won 2nd place in the fiction writing contest. The award is a publishing package with Westbow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson. I will publish the second book in my SAMSON OPTION trilogy called THE TIME OF JACOB'S...
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Jan.26.2011
Where do I go when I want to create people, places and things that do not actually exist in real time? I go inside my head, which is to say I let my subconcious have its way. I place myself in a comfortable chair, with my laptop on my lap of course, and my ipod plugged into my ears, and I let the...
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Sep.17.2010
After one year of living on campus at Haifa University, I and my husband are now renting a wee apartment in a complex for people 55 and older in the beautiful little town of San Juan Capistrano. My head is still spinning as I adjust to dollars instead of shekels. I run, almost giddy, through the...
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Aug.05.2010
Back in the 60's I found myself imprisoned in Tehran for crimes I did not commit. My only offense was making my husband angry. A lovely American woman, whose husband worked for the Iranian/American Oil Consortium, came to my rescue, convinced my Iranian husband, and a plethora of prison officials...
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We spend our years as a tale that is told.”
—Psalm 90:9 KJV
About Sharon
A typical California girl marries an Iranian student in the l960's. Her dream of living as a Persian Princess turns into a nightmare when she finds herself trapped in Tehran. She finds faith in Christ and the courage to escape, but must leave her two young...
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