The little ones ran through the back yard last night with sparklers in their hands, screeching with delight and anxiety. It’s a rare for their parents to allow them to hold anything on fire. Monty the Saint Bernard stood among them, panting, somehow seeming in charge of the situation. The teenaged girl had long since […]
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Welcome to America
My daughter Lejla became a citizen Monday. The ceremony was at the federal courthouse downtown; she joined 29 other immigrants from 17 nations in taking the oath of citizenship. (Lejla was born in Switzerland , the child of Bosnian and Croat refugees. Since Switzerland neither allows refugees to stay very long nor grants citizenship to […]