Farid Rushdi: My Life

[April 30th] -- The fall of 1977 was a very difficult time for me. I lived in Washington, D.C., and still suffered from post-Watergate traum...

[March 11th] -- There were many things that took some getting used to when my family came to the United States in 1959. Beirut was certainl...

[February 5th] -- I never did anything incredibly stupid as a kid. But I came oh so close .... I lived in the Lake Barcroft Apartments from ...

[January 28th] - I'm often asked by my Idaho neighbors what part of my suburban Washington neighborhood did I miss most. My answer is al...

[January 8th] -- I haven't worked since shortly after the 9/11 attack. Oh, I haven't been sick or anything. It's been by design...

[October 30th] -- Many friends and acquaintances who know that I come from the Middle East always assume that I came to the United States be...

[October 25th] -- When you look out your living room window during a January blizzard, the "sun and fun" of Florida's warm-wea...

[October 24th] -- These two photographs of me were taken on my birthday one year apart. The image on the left was taken in 1967, at the age ...

[October 23rd] -- The picture on the left is me at age five, in 1961. The image on the right is a typical 5 year-old today. Times, they are ...

[October 18th] -- I joined the Air Force in 1978 to get away from Washington D.C. as much as I did to see the world. After three months of b...

[October 13th] -- One of the nice things about having a father who was a top-notch photographer was having a great many quality pictures of ...

[October 12th] -- This picture of me was taken on Christmas Eve, 1962 -- I was six at the time -- in Alexandria, Virginia, just a "ston...

[October 10th] -- Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to be among the tens of millions who began a new life in the United St...

[July 25th] - The Skyline Apartments in Northern Virginia is today one of the most attractive complexes that were built in the mid 1970...

The first day at my first job was both scary and exciting. I really only applied at two places. The first was an ice cream shop, where the ...

Many people believe all of the Middle East is sun and shifting sands, with covered women and men wearing white flowing robes. Not so. This ...

Ah, Junior Prom, 1973. The steady girlfriend I had through all of my Junior year, Amber Day of Falls Church High School, dropped me just a ...

Oh, How Embarrassing Now, I have to admit that I probably goaded my Dad into taking this picture, but hey, he's the adult and should ha...

Dad and I never got over our problems. Ask me what happened, and you'll get a different answer from what my brothers might say. I think...

The 1970s -- yuck How in the world did we think we looked good in these clothes and that hair?? This photograph was taken on my 16th birthd...

Oh gosh, I was so young. This picture was taken driving along Interstate 15, somewhere between Ogden and Layton. Most Saturdays, Tracey and...

My Backyard in Beirut [circa 1959] I lived in a apartment house in Beirut. It faced the Mediterranean sea [I can't remember how close i...

Tracey and I had been married three weeks when we decided to look for a new car. I can't say that I remember why we did this. We didn...

I was three years old when we left Beirut Lebanon for Washington, D.C. While most of the memories are cloudy, a few distinct remembrances r...

All In The Family All in the Family came on to the scene in the early 1970s, and changed the way America watched television. Out was Ward an...

Basic Training in 1978 Basic training wasn't that bad. Really. I arrived on January 20th 1978, and for the next six weeks, it was like n...

Most any person who loves photography, and who loves sports, would like nothing better than to be able to take photographs of sporting even...

Well ... I USED to be cute. Compare this picture with the one shown in my profile. Sigh. "The times, they are a changing" 1969 w...

How I View Blogging This picture reflects my view of blogging ... with my fee up on the desk. No. Seriously. Blogging is [in my view] the mo...

Oops. Don't Ask Me For Investment Advice Many years back, oh, around 1972 I guess, I decided to save up and by a tape player for my ...