Dear SWM Blog Readers,
Greetings from Texas! I arrived here about two weeks ago after completing a series of flights from Cairo to Midland, Texas, which included stops in Amsterdam and Houston. From start to finish, the trip took twenty-four hours. Needless to say, I was a bit tired once it was all over.
I’m currently visiting my mom who lives in the off-the-beaten-path town of Big Spring, which is located out in West Texas, in an area often referred to as “the Permian Basin,” an ambiguous way of saying “That Part of the State Where They Drill Down into the Ground to Find Oil.” I’m spending most of my days catching up with friends and family, all those folks I haven’t seen for a year now. In the days ahead, I’ll be traveling down to the Austin area to visit with my dad, stepmother, brother, sister-in-law, and sundry others (all with familiar, smiling faces). I suppose this is a very roundabout way of saying that I’m spending less time in cyberspace than I am in real space right now.
As a result, I’ll keep this week’s blog short and sweet. I’ve decided to share a video from Fora.tv, a site I’ve blogged about in the past. This video makes a nice follow-up to what I wrote about last week. The video shows Debbie Rodriquez, author of The Kabul Beauty School, discussing her experiences in Afghanistan at the Book Passage in Corte Madera, California.
If you want to learn more about Debbie and her bestselling memoire, I’d like to redirect you to “Behind the Veil,” an article I wrote for Savvy that appears in the “beauty” section of the magazine.
Happy viewing and reading!
Tags: Beauty
