This memoir depicts a young girl's aspirations to attend college and spares no effort in achieving freedom to do so, seventeen years after graduating high school.
Raised in a restrictive environment in Cairo, where immigrant parents still observe old country traditions and limit their daughter's aspirations for higher learning, she decides to quit her paternal home and follow her own path to emancipation. She finds employment with the World Health Organization and manages to leave Egypt for a work assignment in Congo, a country in turmoil. Despite the risks she remains there for three years and starts a nest egg for her college education. She manages to travel to eighteen countries in three continents to visit relatives, do some sightseeing and look for a niche where she can feel at home. Seventeen years after high school graduation she sets feet at Columbia University in New York to realize her dream of becoming a writer.
Jamie was a healthy, active 12-year old who loved to skate and played hockey as well as any boy. Then one afternoon during a game, she suffered a stroke that changed her world. Her memoir takes the reader through her ordeal and her journey out of the
This book is an autobiographical account of the lessons I learned about life and how I was able to apply them to inspire, motivate and empower others in my own work as a firefighter, as well in my daily life as a husband, a father and a man. When I w
