My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.
I feel a great kinship with my origins, even though I only learned a few words of Arabic.
I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it.
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.