In case you have nothing to do today but make Valentine’s Day cards, then have I got a job for you!
This a last-minute call to action to help Etsy.com reach 18,000 Valentine’s Day cards. The deadline is February 2nd, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have today and tomorrow. And what better to start your [...]
Archive for January, 2009
The first time I heard about Afghanistan, the Soviets were in control. After learning in school that the Afghan people had no contact with the outside world, I remember being upset that they wouldn’t have cameras and photographs. When the Russians left in 1991, I was happy and hopeful that things would be better, and [...]
It’s strange how certain images (and not others) imprint themselves on your brain. Lately, two images have been on my mind, two images that I discovered during a postmodern art course in either 1997 or 1998.
I guess you could say that without realizing it, these two images encapsulate two of the most important constructs [...]
Before today, there was only one other MLK Day weekend that had stuck in my mind. We were on a family ski trip and on the ride north we stopped at McDonald’s. They had the radio on announcing that the United States had just invaded Kuwait. It was a bit surreal being in McDonald’s of [...]
Growing up in the 80s, there was a lot talk about Rocky Balboa. My dad still breaks into song sometimes and sings Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” (No, really. Still.) One year we went to Philadelphia to visit my aunt, and we ran up the Rocky Steps and did this:
I know you weren’t there to [...]