Though he responds to questions in a roundabout way, he always comes back to the answer, no matter how many entertaining detours he takes to explain himself (his dry wit is also in especially sharp form). With Trent currently toying with concepts for several projects he’d like to pursue ...
Should we resort to sanitized language to describe our oppression, the same way liberation has been replaced by equality? Notably, the individuals who say these sorts of things frequently criticize liberal feminism, usually on the basis that it’s fake feminism, which is exactly what they’re en...
I for one am tired of selecting a box from choices that don’t work. No more trying to fit all of my dreams into “Other”. I want “None of the Above” to mean that we create a new choice that doesn’t have to be acceptable first. And I want it to count for everything in ...
So I thanked them all again and moved on in to the reception, and took an empty seat next to a friendly married couple. They invited me to help myself to the festive treats, and eagerly asked me the standard Catholic question: “What is your usual Mass?” Orthodox people don’t ask ...
People in news like to describe a colleague’s departure, especially into a public relations or marketing job, as “going to the dark side.” When word of my resignation traveled through the newsroom, I heard “dark side” references over and over, always with a smile and a wink. I coul...
It’s like this, at the end of these days. Every day is a new chapter in our story. And only you get to decide how to tell that story. What I chose to remember and hopefully have time to write about, the moments that I describe and the lessons I take away, those are the storie...
I’m a natural talker. It wasn’t hard for me to narrate life. I’mstillwording the experience as we go. The more you talk around your children and describe what you are doing, the sooner they will have words to use. And the sooner they have words to use, the easier communication ...
playing around (there were times with one baby that I felt like we just had a little buddy we brought along to everything we did — now we have two little buddies, but that’s one buddy each, and not everyone loves an incessantly-talking-toddler-and-incessantly-grunting/screaming-baby ...
While a lot of people call the front steps to their houses their front steps, many New Yorkers call them their “stoop.” This word came to New York compliments of Dutch settlers who brought their word stoep, which way, way back in the 16th century was used to describe “a sitting benc...
s pleas were filled with knowledge and reason…he knew that the firebomb wouldn’t just possibly injure a policeman…but that it would explode in the face of all they were there to accomplish. Heartbreaking. In fact…that’s the best word to describe the whole situation…just heartbreaking...