Prompt # 20 – history
May 3, 2018
Being born, we don’t realize we’re stepping into history. We think history begins with us. … More Prompt # 20 – history
Category: Family
A Creature of Speed and Air
October 25, 2017
Habesha dudes usually open with: Don’t I know you? I said, “Have you met me?”
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SD Vol 8: Username Unavailable
December 12, 2015
I find it super neat when I request my name, or some version thereof, for my username when opening a new online account and get the message that the username is unavailable. No way! Waaay! Awesome. Now that’s belonging. … More SD Vol 8: Username Unavailable
After Addis 2
July 16, 2014
Continuing from where I left off at the end of ‘After Addis 1‘, on the seven phases of the seven trips of this brown astronaut around the planet known as Ethiopia… Phase 1: immediately following migration, a time of feeling completely at ease with myself, it not even occurring to me to change to adapt to the norms … More After Addis 2
After Addis 1
July 13, 2014
Well, the satellite dishes were everywhere in full bloom in Addis, and I’ve learned that its impossible to be matter-of-fact not only about going to but also leaving from Ethiopia. The ‘going to’ always means something- if not to you-the-goer, then to the person who hears of it. Back in the spring and early summer, … More After Addis 1
The Pet Chronicles
June 11, 2014
Reader response to my last post has been that I write more about this topic: 5) Pets and habesha people: write a retrospective of my colorful personal histories with pets. “His name was ‘Yeneneh’. Things would have worked out much better between us if he himself was aware of that…” (Note: no pets were harmed in the … More The Pet Chronicles
Username Unavailable
February 24, 2014
I find it super neat when I request ‘Rebka Fisseha’, or some combination thereof, for my username when opening a new online account and get the message that the username is unavailable. No way! Waaay! Awesome. Now that’s belonging. I used to be smug about having a ‘secret weapon’ name but I’ve found that I like this … More Username Unavailable
Auntie SOSo
January 22, 2014
Depending the position of the sun when you ask me, I might be pro or anti-mommmyhood. Morning being generally an optimistic time, ante-meridiam will find me pro. By afternoon, reality has beat the sunshine out of me and it is I who is in need of superhuman patience and pampering. Auntiehood, as you may know, … More Auntie SOSo
Me and Yohannes Aramde
October 7, 2013
It wasn’t until 2007 that I discovered there was such a thing as Johnnie Walker Blue Label, when I saw the elegant box tucked away in a bathroom at a crowded grown-ups party on occasion of an upcoming wedding. Presumably, it was there for safekeeping until after the bulk of (less-deserving) guests had moseyed on home … More Me and Yohannes Aramde
Dirty Pretty Things
August 31, 2013
I hate having to explain technology. I can barely make it make sense to myself, so having to do that for anyone – correction, to anyone over the age of say, fifty, is torture. The best torture device in my opinion is the iPhone. Ooooh the iPhone. (Well, anything Apple for that matter.) Sometimes I … More Dirty Pretty Things
Rebecca Fisseha, Writer. 