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[book]
Wanderlust – A family memoir compiled with Heidi Sandler.
From the back cover:
"In the early 1900s, in a German village on the North Sea, a man named Wilhelm Schoon mistakenly thought he'd killed someone in a bar fight. Nervous, he slipped over the Dutch border and emigrated to Iowa, 'where you can just spit on the ground and the corn grows three meters high!'
Thirty years later his three granddaughters back in Germany inherited his land in America. One chose to emigrate; the other two stayed behind. Wanderlust chronicles the repercussions of their choices.
The daughter of a midwife recalls her childhood during WWII as her home is attacked by fellow Germans.
A nine-year-old boy watches his father learn the art of farming in 'Amerika.'
An American woman follows her German husband back to Europe and for the first time views the U.S. through foreign eyes.
A young man in East Germany devotes his life to the study of the violin, secretly hoping to gain a place in a touring orchestra so that he will have the chance to defect, but as the Berlin Wall falls he finds he must reevaluate his life and his ambitions.
Wanderlust is both a memoir and a travelogue, a story of work, family, love, and immigration."
[anthology contributions]
"Sex in Translation." In Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally. Angela Jane Fountas, ed. Seattle: Seal Press, 2005.
"Letters to Aisha." In Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts. Bee Lavender and Maia Rossini, eds. New York: Soft Skull, 2004.
"Watching Them Grow Up." In Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad. Christina Henry de Tessan, ed. Seattle: Seal Press, 2002.
"Are You a Terrorist, Or Do You Play One on TV?" In What Matters in America: Reading and Writing About Contemporary Culture (2005), Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader (5th edition, 2005), and The Contemporary Reader (8th edition, 2004), all edited by Gary Goshgarian and published by Longman.
[selected articles]
"Back to Baghdad: Nice Bombs Targets Life During Wartime." Film review in PopPolitics, Mar. 18, 2008.
An Interview with Hanne Blank, author of Virgin: The Untouched History: Part I & Part II. Author interview on HijabMan.com, June 25, 2007.
"Fraud is not always a bad thing." Op-ed in The Boston Globe, Dec. 11, 2006.
"No Hierarchy of Suffering: Talking with Bee Lavender." Author interview in Clamor, Fall 2006.
"Sleepless in Los Angeles: Showtime's Sleeper Cell." TV review in MuslimWakeUp! Dec. 25, 2005.
"Painting God in Romania." BootsnAll Travel, Oct. 14, 2005.
"Releasing the Hounds." Hip Mama, Dec. 13, 2004.
"Monica and Me." Hip Mama, June 24, 2004.
"The Necessity of Involvement." Hip Mama, Apr. 30, 2004.
"The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had." Book review in Home Education Magazine, Jan-Feb, 2004.
"The Secret Burden." Brain, Child, Fall, 2003.
"Resistance: My Life for Lebanon." Book review in Hip Mama, Oct. 31, 2003.
"From Minneapolis to Washington: Thomas Friedman's Vision for the Middle East." PopPolitics, Apr. 29, 2003.
"One Night in Baghdad." TV review in PopPolitics, Dec. 17, 2002. Syndicated on AlterNet.org.
"Are You a Terrorist, Or Do You Play One on TV?" PopPolitics, Nov. 20, 2002. Syndicated on AlterNet.org.
"Truancy for Everyone!" Home Education Magazine, July-Aug 2002.
"Like Breast Milk and Goat Poop: The Case for Using Open Source Software in the Third World." White paper for KITE, Inc. 2000.
"The Power of Mentors." Home Education Magazine, Nov-Dec, 1999.
[blogs]
Guest blogger/frequent contributor to PopPolitics.com and HijabMan.com
Travel writing at anthrotrek
[grants & awards]
Alviogut Foundation, Writers Cultural Exchange Program in Romania, 2005.
Pushcart Prize nomination, 2003.
