Not here

For the next week, I will be sipping margaritas on a beach located about one hour south of Cancún. I will not check voice messages. I will not read emails. I will not blog, nor see a computer for the entire seven days. I do hope that, when I return, inspiration will accompany me. …¡Hasta!

Uninspired, but still here

I’ve been MIA lately and will be, even more so, next week when I’m on my way to Akumal, Mexico. Until then, here are a couple links for you to enjoy… Style Rookie: Jamie at Oh! How Lovely! turned me on to this blog, written by a 12 year-old (yes, you read that right). It’s mostly [...]

Links for you to click

Some good stuff around the interwebs lately… Nilsa at SoMi began a movement, of sorts, which she called “BlogSecret” — “you write a secret and have it posted anonymously on someone else’s blog.” Nilsa notes, ”It is said (through the results of lots of research) that the simple act of writing about a secret is highly cathartic [...]

In which she second guesses herself

I wake up, make my coffee and sit down at my desk. My work commute is a full four feet from my bed. I spend my entire day sitting in the same chair, staring out the same window, speaking to few. I both despise and need the solitary.  I listen to my mixes. Broken Social Scene. [...]

Brave New World

“I’m thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I’ve got something important to say and the power to say it — only I don’t know what it is, and I can’t make any use of the power. If there was some different way of writing…Or else something else to write about…” [...]

the a.r.w. recommends: The American Analog Set

At the beginning of my college years, I discovered Pinback through the campus radio station. They had just released Summer in Abaddon and I was lucky enough to find their other albums at a local record store. I consumed their music much like I now consume spaghetti — I wanted it all day, every day. [...]

In which she pouts and ponders

Last night, I dreamt that I was on a plane to South America.  It’s been too long since I had an adventure — an out-of-the-country, speak-in-a-foreign-language, spend-way-too-much-money adventure. In less than a month, I will be on a beach in Mexico. Adventure? Definitely. Nevertheless, I find myself waking up on this cloudy Monday morning with a sense [...]

A change has come

It does restore some sense of faith in our democracy, some pride that, perhaps, we can elect a leader who represents the people.    The best post I have seen today was at I am Fuel, You are Friends. The images alone represent my hope for our country and, dare I say, my pride.  Thanks Nico for the [...]

Recently Watched: Recount

Recount directed by Jay Roach — Remember the long past 2000 election in which we waited weeks to hear a verdict? This HBO film tells the story of what went on behind the scenes, while I was busy being a depressed freshman in college who hardly noticed that there was an election crisis on our [...]

Profile of an activist: Severn Suzuki

At only nine years old, she founded the Environmental Children’s Organization with her friends. Three years later, at age 12, Severn Suzuki stood at a podium and delivered one of the most memorable speeches at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. This particular United Nations conference marked the beginning of the Kyoto Protocol [...]