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Making a home in Kabul: July 2007

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Making a home in Kabul. Insert deeply emotional and witty phrase here. Tuesday, July 17, 2007. I have written and re-written summaries of my 29th year and I bored myself (and I usually find myself fascinating). The plodding battles with my health. Red blankets wrapped around my knees. Cups and cups of tea. Headaches, hives, dust, heat, cold. Doing the right thing and then wondering if it’s enough. Doing the wrong thing and hoping it wasn’t too bad. Failure. I'm pretty friggin lucky. She pulled in her hor...

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Making a home in Kabul: August 2007

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Making a home in Kabul. Insert deeply emotional and witty phrase here. Tuesday, August 28, 2007. Not much, just a chance. I have been writing these entries at night but posting them the next morning, if anyone notices the time difference. I spent the night before holed up in my room, journaling and listening to Pema Chodron. I feel better now, not because I worked all the problems out, but because I let myself sit with the fear. It eased it a bit. Something positive.  . Monday, August 27, 2007. Together ...

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Making a home in Kabul: March 2007

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Making a home in Kabul. Insert deeply emotional and witty phrase here. Saturday, March 31, 2007. Blogs that make me go hmmmm. The very sweet Frida. Tagged me for a ‘meme’. I must admit, I have always wanted to be tagged for a meme (am I using this word correctly? Is it a noun or a verb? And this one was especially sweet as I have been tagged for a meme and also been given a Thinking Bloggers Award. 8211; I keep finding and then losing track of Safrang but each time I find him, I am struck by his insight ...

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Making a home in Kabul: Moving

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Making a home in Kabul. Insert deeply emotional and witty phrase here. Wednesday, September 05, 2007. To a new blog: www.homeinkabul.wordpress.com. Bear with me, it is slow going. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A little about this blog and me. I started this blog to keep in touch with friends and family while I'm in Afghanistan. I use this blog to vent and explain (to others and myself) why I love Afghanistan so much. I'm anonymous, so if you know my name - please don't use it. A Muslim A Day.

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Making a home in Kabul: September 2007

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Making a home in Kabul. Insert deeply emotional and witty phrase here. Wednesday, September 05, 2007. To a new blog: www.homeinkabul.wordpress.com. Bear with me, it is slow going. Tuesday, September 04, 2007. It is morning. I am sitting on my bed, half-dressed, listening to. This American Lifes The Center for Lessons Learned, which is about. The Armys attempts to understand post-conflict reconstruction. I should be getting ready for breakfast but I cant. After the Gulf War. Leading to another loose end.

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Crumbling Spires: 08 April 2007

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Dodging the hoofs of the swinish multitude whilst: blogging the UK's War On Terror, especially in Afghanistan and on the Home Front; and observing divers stuff and nonsense in British society. 13 April, 2007. Pakistani army in South Waziristan. The western mainstream media are beginning to pick up on the recent battles. Between the Taliban and al-Qaeda in South Waziristan. In the UK, the Daily Telegraph. Focuses on Pakistani army's "marriage of convenience" with the Taliban. Over the pond, the LA Times.

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Crumbling Spires: Safrang

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Dodging the hoofs of the swinish multitude whilst: blogging the UK's War On Terror, especially in Afghanistan and on the Home Front; and observing divers stuff and nonsense in British society. 17 April, 2007. A pointer to an informative blog on Afghanistan I came across recently. Safrang. Is well worth bookmarking. The About section says,. That has a familiar ring. A major reason for my starting this blog was the dearth of any serious press coverage in the UK, a void which needed filling. Safrang. Britis...

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Crumbling Spires: Here we go again.

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Dodging the hoofs of the swinish multitude whilst: blogging the UK's War On Terror, especially in Afghanistan and on the Home Front; and observing divers stuff and nonsense in British society. 10 May, 2007. Here we go again. Blogging will fully resume next week hopefully. 16 days ago the first morning news story I read in the DT print edition was about hospital death rates. Out of interest, I googled Chesterfield Royal Hospital, our local hospital, and found this old BBC report. View my complete profile.

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Crumbling Spires: Taliban Spring Offensive IV.

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Dodging the hoofs of the swinish multitude whilst: blogging the UK's War On Terror, especially in Afghanistan and on the Home Front; and observing divers stuff and nonsense in British society. 10 May, 2007. Taliban Spring Offensive IV. Afghacom continues Chronicling the Spring Offensive,. With Part IV covering April 19 - May 8. Once again the, by now, familiar pattern emerges of isolated suicide bombings which, although potentially deadly, are much less dangerous than the frontal attacks of last year.

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Crumbling Spires: 15 April 2007

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Dodging the hoofs of the swinish multitude whilst: blogging the UK's War On Terror, especially in Afghanistan and on the Home Front; and observing divers stuff and nonsense in British society. 19 April, 2007. Iranian arms for the Taliban. The International Herald Tribune. Reports on the revelatory remarks of Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Baltimore Sun. Posted by Henry Bolingbroke. 18 April, 2007. Problems looming for Iraq from North Waziristan. The foreigners said the...