Here’s How You Can Invest in a Woman’s Future.
They come to my door sometimes, always unannounced, and always with some inexpensive sugary drink or snack to give to me, the […]
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What Christmas Songs Tell Us About Hate
It’s all around us this time of year, if we listen. Subversive, revolutionary ideas about how the world ought to be fill […]
Read moreOn Not Taking Things For Granted
We play a little thought game sometimes, my husband and I. It’s simple really. We take what we know about the people […]
Read moreHolding The Pieces
I sat on a pile of concrete fence posts across from her. She juggles her baby, almost a year old now, she […]
Read moreOf Darkness, and Hope, and How You Can Help Bring Light
Today I met a 14 year old girl, when I was visiting two of the mothers in my birth class. She was […]
Read moreFalse Alarms and Energy Drinks
She hands me a little plastic bag through the driver window. “Ah Sayama, chesu tin ba deh.” (Teacher, thank you, in Burmese.) […]
Read moreWe Are Small
Sometimes I want to quit. Pack it in. Go home. Sometimes I feel like all our work, all my efforts, are just […]
Read moreAn Embarrassment of Riches
She carefully hands me the coins she has swept up from the corners of my bedroom, this change I didn’t even notice […]
Read more7 Quick Takes – So much to say
Little bits from around the web that I thought worth sharing. I wanted to include pictures but my internet out here in […]
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