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Semi-Coherent Rambling
About a week or so before the U.S. entered Iraq in 2003, I heard a radio interview between a journalist and an actor in Baghdad. He was rehearsing for a play that was scheduled to open sometime in...
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One last post of ’08. What’s it going to be? Well, if it weren’t for Holidailies (my solemn vow) I wouldn’t post at all today. Alas, I am committed. So, in search of a topic, I randomly thought, “End...
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First Snow
If I had my very own personal Ghost of Christmas Past, there is one night I would love to revisit: the night my family helped two men from across the world settle into their new home in the U.S.....
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3013 days and counting
When I was a girl, I was perpetually grateful for two things. One, that our country was not at war. And two, that I was a girl, because girls didn’t have to go to war. I held the idea of “War” as the...
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Quick: Write Something!
25 spare minutes in between morning-relaxing-time and shower-errand-movie-time and rather than supplementing my earlier breakfast with a bit more nourishment (ee-gads, woman, just say, “having a...
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This isn’t what John Lennon sang about
I think another part of me has died. Dramatic much? Yeah. probably. Here’s what just happened. I saw on Facebook (of all places) that President Obama “Declares End to U.S. Iraq Combat”. And then I...
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Traditional Veterans Day Post
I like to imagine Veterans Day as a global holiday, a day to send wishes for peace and comfort to people all over the world who have been called to arms. More than we would guess, these soldiers are...
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One Billion Rising: Do I Have to Dance?
I don’t have to dance, do I? I mean, this is, perhaps, a tiny fraction of what it’s all about, that I get to choose, right? I get to choose what I do with my body (and my mind, and my thoughts—wait....
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Open Letter to Everyone Everywhere Right Now
People, Hi. Oh my god whataweek. Fuck. Right? (Use your words, Ruth.) It’s kind of a cliche to say, “Like no other time in history . . .” But how else can anyone describe the experience each one of us...
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“We just ask the world not to forget us.”
“We just ask the world not to forget us.” Who said that? A mother in Syria? A firefighter in California? A teacher in Mexico? None of the above. The person who said that is a man in the Central African...
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