Family Dinner

Hello blogosphere.  I went to a writing workshop tonight and was reminded how much I need to be doing this on the daily.  I’m gonna work on posting regularly again.
Here’s a piece I wrote in one of my grad classes.  The assignment was to write about a significant event in your life in three pages [...]

Protected: Chill Chicago Morning

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This guy (and gal)’s intense!

I haven’t been watching the olympics that much, but I really like the track and field events. Two pictures that inspired me this morning after my workout (that was interrupted by a fire alarm at the Bed Stuy Y!  There was something sort of comical about everyone filing out all sweaty and annoyed in their [...]

It’s getting kind of stuffy in here …

Blog back up again.  Sigh. The closet is lame.  I miss my forays in the blogosphere.  This whole blog up blog down blog up thing has made me not even want to read others because it reminds me of how awful it is to be hiding.  After conversations with an old dear friend and a [...]

Back Up

Blog is back up.  More posts to follow.

This is awesome

I’m an Asshole

So turns out the whole GW Carver pencil thing is true:
“He taught himself to read. His family was so poor, he couldn’t afford to buy a pencil, so he made a holder and used a pencil that was only 1/4 inch long.” got it from this website. Apparently so did my student who [...]

Umm …. yeah

I start my first day as an algebra teacher on Tuesday …
aahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

What got me out of bed this morning

“I beg you–to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.  Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, [...]

First Program Announcements for the 2007 Allied Media Conference

The 9th annual Allied Media Conference:
“Breaking Silence, Building Movements”
June 22-24, 2007
Detroit, MI
Be a part of it at www.amc2007.org
Hello, conference-goers. 72 days until the AMC.
Here they are: the first program announcements for the 2007 Allied Media Conference. We’ve posted 15 of the workshops, panel discussions, film programs, and caucus meetings you’ll have to choose from in [...]

Coalition of Immokalee Workers win agreement with McDonalds days before launching boycott!

Got this from a friend. Incredible news!! I wish I could go to Chicago next weekend for the CIW action.
Friends,
It’s true: The CIW has done it again! We’ve won our campaign against McDonald’s.
This morning McDonald’s conceded to all of the farmworker’s demands, including a penny more per pound of tomatoes, a strong grower [...]

“Born Female: Growing into Feminism and Movement Building”

I think this will be a very interesting event:
Grace Lee Boggs will speak on “Born Female: Growing into Feminism and Movement Building” on March 1, 12:00 pm, in Bernath Auditorium,
Undergraduate Library, Wayne State University.
Ms. Boggs, co-founder of the Beloved Communities Initiative, is an activist, writer and speaker who lives in Detroit. Her sixty-five [...]

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