She breaks her gallop, straddles the treadmill, and stabs at the phone keyboard in answer to the blinking update prompt: “2017, I’m going to fucking crush you.” Likes and hearts immediately balloon from her feed….
Browsing Category on politics
The gene of being.
(Thank you @Susie for the prompt.) Riva, dear Riva, Sweet, fierce, gorgeous heart and girl of 20-months of life. Can you feel our faces following yours? Your mama-moon and father-sun faces orbiting your every step,…
thank you for humble leadership
I consider it my highest mission as an intercultural educator to foster and encourage empathy, humility and vulnerability in my students. And as it is in both my personal and professional cultures to express gratitude…
goodnight lawn-mower
my 2-year old, every night, soothes himself to sleep by recounting the objects and events that have made an impression on his day… “goodnight motorcycle” “goodnight bumble bee” “goodnight thunder” “goodnight lawn-mower” (If you haven’t…
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. – Dr. Seuss
Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it By Douglas Rushkoff, Special to CNN updated 1:09 PM EST, Wed October 5, 2011 “The members of Occupy Wall Street may be as unwieldy,…
the guts to look inside
At this very minute, scouts from every major city in India are making their way to the site of the recent natural disaster in Bangladesh. There, they will pick through the rubble of the dead…
Footprints in Peru, Day 4: appeasing the apus
“I knew you were better as soon as your laugh woke me up,” declares Javier. Indeed, while my mental facilitates napped through a 13-hour siesta, my body, with the assistance of the antibiotics, regained control…
swallowing shame
Nothing strikes me as particularly interesting or memorable about the US embassy in Dakar. It’s a formidable building, with the same broad shoulders of those that neighbor it, identified by a simple gold plaque on…
& many things have happened contrary to the wishes and plans of governments"
Sorry. But my biggest pet peeve is having to search online for hours just to find the original transcript of a letter that all the American press has decided it “their duty” to decipher for…
dissident daisies
* This post references, and is in response to questions from, the prior. “Why?” Jerry asks, “did you use your social security number instead of your name?” And first may I just reassure, all those…