The year was 1995, my kids were in elementary school, and I was working part-time at a tax publishing house in Northern Virginia so that I could be there for them after school. We owned a house in Falls Church, VA and visited Florida to see Lew’s mom often. We got a dog and IContinue reading “How we got to Dhaka”
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Dhaka Dowry
Something about my own baby girl’s 35th birthday has made me remember an episode that she didn’t understand back when I was 35. It’s another true tale from our time in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1996 when my daughter Sadie was seven years old. Sadie was often as tall as grown-up Bengali women. I have troubleContinue reading “Dhaka Dowry”
The View from a Broad 