This is going to be different than my usual blog post, and it will be a little more personal. But I feel compelled to speak on the issue of Sterigenics and ETO. As you probably already know, I recently came home for a while after living away for the past few years. You may not know that home for me… Read more →
If you read my blog on a semi-regular basis, you’ll probably have noticed that it’s been nearly six months since my last post. This wasn’t intentional, and I will go back and kind of back-blog about the end of AmeriCorps. I still have a lot to say about that experience that I’ve told family and friends and my personal journal… Read more →
I think the problem that almost any social movement has is when one person or a few people try to speak for a whole demographic or community. Inevitably this is going to cause problems, because each person’s life experience is going to be different even if you share an identity (female, gay, black, etc.). If there is one thing a… Read more →
I am a feminist. I have always identified as a feminist, and I always will. I am not going to change that because some people associate the word with a certain radical “man-hating” attitude. I do regret that the word has this connotation, but the only way to change the meaning of a word is to reclaim it as your… Read more →
I think that most often the hardest things in life are the ones you don’t expect to be hard. They start off good and lull you into a false sense of security. That was how Sevilla was for me. I woke up Friday morning with plenty of time to get to the train station where we departed for Sevilla. This… Read more →
“College is the best four years of your life.” “You’re never going to have opportunities like these again.” The problem with college, and I’m pretty sure it’s the same no matter where you go, is that you are expected to be everything, see everything, do everything. There’s this immense pressure to make sure that your four years, which you are… Read more →
“Love is the whole thing.” That’s what the poster in my college floormate’s room said. She said the quote spoke to her, and quotes are funny like that. They’re obviously famous for some reason, but only certain quotes speak to certain people’s human experience or their way of thinking. She saw this quote as a blanket statement that love is… Read more →
If you’re lucky, you’ve got a dental hygienist who isn’t particularly chatty with you while your mouth’s propped open and drying out by the second. They might ask you what flavor fluoride you’d like, but besides that they just leave you to stare at the ceiling and listen to their lame-o soundtrack. When I visited my dentist on Tuesday, I… Read more →