confessions of a reformed tourist
Because someone expressed concerned regarding the girliness of Bean’s curls in the video I posted the other day. That video is over a year old. At the time the child was a few months shy of his third birthday and had never, not even once, had a haircut. That plus the moisture and warmth of [...]
I was really busy having this obscenely stabby stabby shouty shouty day. You know. The kind of day when you examine a stupid list and suddenly discover you’ve been unfollowed (don’t ask) by twelve (twelve!) of your favorite people in the universe. And then you curl up, fetal, in the shower, and bawl like baby [...]
“Howard Zinn didn’t want or need flowery eulogies. He wanted us to get out there and do the work he chronicled. In lieu of flowers, organize, document and tell the stories of that organizing so that others may, too, be inspired to do the same. That – and not a book on a coffee table [...]
Back in December, when I heard that Buju Banton had been arrested on federal drugs charges (intent to distribute more than five kilos of cocaine) I thought to myself, Self? This is precisely the kind of incident I’d love to blog about, except I plain just don’t know enough. You see, Buju Banton is one [...]
I crossposted yesterday’s “on accents” to my Tumblr, and two of the responses (reblogs) I got were so interesting I can’t resist quoting them here. The first to weigh in was adsinfinitum, who wrote: Another point of interest for me is how people are so determined to assign you an accent. How they feel the [...]
This story written for Bean and me as a gift from our friend coyotesqrl. He has a Twitter, a Tumblr and a more formal, serious blog. He’s also one of the other founding members of the round-robin writing project, Too Many Cooks. I find this story especially touching because although he has never met me [...]
As I wrote previously, my initial reaction to the news that Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was not only positive, it was profoundly visceral. I checked my email, saw an alert from The New York Times and got literal goosebumps. I was thrilled. And I know there were lots of people out [...]
YingYang wrote me a lovely TTFN post. Farewell, but not Good-bye « Blah Bloh Blog.
I’ve never particularly liked The New York Post, but I used to read it for sports news and gossip. Those days are over. Today, they published this despicable piece of trash by Sean Delonas. This “cartoon” is the most offensive, unconscionable and disturbing thing I have ever seen printed in an allegedly legitimate newspaper. The [...]
This list was inspired by a comment on YingYang’s blog. LifeOnARock blogs here and is another American living in Grenada. I’ve never met her. She commented on YingYang’s post about “indecent exposure” in Grenada, saying this: “When I first arrived in Grenada, I went out and about in St. George’s with camo shorts on. I [...]
