Earlier in the week, I tried checking out the TV for news about Haiti, but each time was confronted with pieces that disproportionately focused on white people, Wyclef Jean, and Israel. With regard to Israel in particular, the media seems to be focused on Israel’s highly effective field hospital in Port-au-Prince, which even Jewish papers […]
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1968
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 […]
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Twi-ddiction?
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. […]