Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
When, walking home from the party, you stopped and looked back were you making sure nobody was following you, or hoping to see somebody approaching? When you closed the door and turned the key were you welcoming solitude, or craving the world you left outside? In the stone house in the suburbs, were you...
My grandmother was a practical and successful business woman. She managed to live well without a husband for most of her life, opened a women clothing store with her sister after the war (in the South of Italy and starting from nothing), and successfully managed it for many years, through changes in fashion and...
I’m in Las Vegas on the way to San Jose. This must be one of the strangest places on Earth with the slot machines, the smokers gas chambers, and things that look good from a distance and cheesy at a closer look. My plane was 45 minutes early (go Southwest!) and I found the...
BlogHer, the conference “where the women bloggers are” is finally here; I am leaving for the Bay tomorrow. I am so nervous!! The conference is sold out: and there are so many people that I have been waiting to meet… I will try to leave home my usual conference-shy self and being sociable. I...
Andrew Hinton writes a thoughtful and passionate post about George Bush’s first veto that will prevent the use of frozen embryos for stem cell research. In his post, Andrew questions where life starts, where life ends, and who decides it. He also touches on the issue that I find the hardest to digest about...
It’s not yet established with certainty whether Mr. Bush likes black people or not, but we know for sure that in the past he has declined several invitations to speak at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 2004, he defined his relationship with the NAACP as “basically nonexistent.” But...
