42 years ago: a revolution on the brink. 1968: the year of protests. the year that rocked the world. the year that Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were brutally murdered*. I was born 14 years later, too late to understand the intricacies of the time. I showed up too late for the […]
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I have a wee bit of an addictive personality. Fortunately, it doesn’t manifest itself in any particularly nefarious ways (anymore, anyway – I quit smoking in March!), but I’m still a bit of an all-or-nothing gal. That’s why I’ve decided to take a long break from Twitter. […]
Haiti is not within my typical geographic area of interest, but it is (and should be) impossible to ignore the catastrophe there: as many as 100,000 people killed by a 7.0 earthquake which occurred on January 12. As many as 1/3 of Haiti’s 9 million people are in need of aid. For a country that […]