How we convinced Nostradamus not to cash in on his millennial prediction of gloom and doom for another thousand years…in order to SAFELY deliver the January issue of Seleda on New Year's Day.

Where you are given a chance-albeit limited-to throw a carnation stem or a dart at our feet and hearts.

TETEr QoTAris, alas, are no longer within arms reach. However, SELEDA's resident QAliCHa is sharing-free of charge-ten signs that will let you know when you're ready to go back to Ethiopia.

On the wonders and stupor of the first few months in the United States.

The SELEDA Bawza spotlights and, yes, reflects on the color Black.

Coming home after a quarter of a century away from home.

On an enchanted house where Indian ladies float on ceilings, ailing centenarians clash over turf, and children roam free.

An MBA student and an internet company CEO twist one other's arms and (fortunately for us) expose their second calling: philosophy!

Ethiopian musicians strike back and leave the plaintiffs... dumbstruck.

On Ethiopianess, Home and (dis)Connection: A New Generation Speaks.

A businessperson lives in Ethiopia for a few years and learns to love and appreciate the motherland…from a distance.

Where Seleda editors muzzle their yilugnta to unabashedly praise Ethiopian individuals and organizations that excel.

Readers sublimely indulge our crass attempts to quantify and distill Diaspora yearnings.

On oversized suitcases, ominous envelopes, WASP units of vacation and, most importantly, the reunification of a no nonsense pair of shoes that was separated at birth.

We never take them to heart but love to read them.

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