Historical Archives
Via Leslie, I watched this poignant video chronicling the last month of the paper. What I was thinking as I was watching it was that the value of good reporting has never been highlighted by anyone very well. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, the “news” that many people watch and pay attention to has never been about…
Image via Wikipedia There’s been a bit of discussion about this NY Times article about the humanities needing to prove they’re worth the money in such trying economic times. I should say here and now that I have a degree in English from a SLAC, so I hope that gives me some credibility. Tim Burke…
Image via Wikipedia I just finished watching “The Biggest Loser” and opened up my reader to find this post by Horace at To Delight and Instruct. Although I personally judge myself and compare my body to others’, I’d never thought of how the medical profession might contribute to this. Horace describes the way his doctor…
Day 56: My Street, originally uploaded by lorda. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
The above video was one of two videos we showed near the beginning of our presentation for Northern Voice. Nancy White started off by having everyone draw pictures together. The idea was to have them feel a little uncomfortable working together. I did get upset with Barbara for making a squiggle where I didn’t want…
I’m on the way home from Northern Voice and there’s so much to process and say. It was really great to reconnect face-to-face with my old friends Barbara G., Leslie M-B, Alan Levine, and Brian Lamb. I admire and respect their work, and find it really invigorating to be around them. They both support and…
Holy cow! Have I really not blogged since Monday? Well, I’ll chalk it up to the first batch of papers plus a lot of mother-work to do. Anyway, I’m traveling today, headed to Vancouver for Northern Voice. I have a long layover here–another hour to go and I’m sitting on the floor with another woman,…
Occasionally I have a shopping trip that is nirvanic. It can feel like an escape from the real world where all you have to do is focus on food. But most of the time, it feels like a real burden. First, there’s the fact that the grocery stores around here are small, which would be…
Last week I hijacked Jim’s blog, bavatuesdays, by making a fairly innocent comment about how his top commenters were (or at least seemed to be on the surface) all men. I was not trying to claim Jim was sexist or anything (as I think Jim knows), but it’s a pattern I happened to notice and,…
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