really going?

In two weeks, I’ll be living in an apartment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Looking around my current apartment it’s clear that something is happening.  I have never sorted and organized and tossed and saved so much at a time.  Each item in my apartment must be handled to ensure that nothing unnecessary goes.  But what’s [...]

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protect a tricycle

I have long been perplexed by the selection of advertising on the fringes of webpages.  Some of it seems to reflect my interests with eerie accuracy. Yes, I am a buckeye.  Yes, I think that boys are cute.   Other ads are more bizarre.  What have I done to suggest I want to buy jewelry [...]

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Safety Calculus

No, she insists, I never feel unsafe in the Bronx.  It’s on the Upper East Side walking alone, late at night, surrounded by drunk and entitled white men that she feels any unease.  She is aware of the coldness between 5th and Lex where no one but the occasional doorman would turn if she called [...]

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internot or the world wide wasteland

I’ve become skeptical of the value of information on the internet for sometime, and today marks a true low.  The idea that anyone can put their two cents up on the internet is great — I’m doing it now.  The fact that there are virtually no expert opinions on the internet, no central way to [...]

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