Archive for July, 2008
Changing the world one pillow at a time — Danielle Sobol
While working at a pediatric cardiology clinic in Israel last year with Zanzibari children, grad student Danielle Sobol became fascinated with their culture. She went to Zanzibar and met a group of truly amazing women and discovered that while her basic computer skills were very helpful to them, they were making a difference themselves with their not-so-basic skills making pillows.
A walk on the not-so-wild side.
Novelist Diana Wagman published an op-ed piece in last weekend’s LA Times about unlikely connections that can be made while walking in her eclectic neighborhood.
Rocky Mountain Hi — Susan Sawyers
Among the holy hoi-polloi from Tibet who visited Aspen, Colo. for a three day “Celebration of Tibetan Culture,” Friday’s breakout session led by Sogyal Rinpoche touched my inner-being.
Dog bites man again. — Susan Kaiser Greenland
July 28th Note: For those who follow the progressive blogs, the online reaction to the John Edwards story is fascinating. Check out how Lee Stranahan is getting slammed in the comments for his post on Huffington why the progressive blogs need to get out in front of this story and also slammed in the comments on his crosspost on Daily Kos.
And now the Momocrats weigh-in On What’s News and What’s Not.
Read more on this story in the post John Edwards, Father of the Year?
Rocky Mountain Why? — Susan Kaiser and Seth Greenland
10:39amSusan
Hey Seth, did you see McCain is going to visit the Dalai Lama in Aspen today? Do you think he’s a seeker?
10:40amSeth
I think he wants to discuss the four noble truths, and how he can use them to beat Obama.
Way to go, Sue!
Sue Smalley’s article Reframing ADHD in the Genomic Era, is published in the latest issue of Psychiatric Times. For those of us interested in the investigation of non-pharmaceutical forms of support for children with ADD/ADHD, Sue voiced encouragement in this mainstream psychiatric journal.
True Mom Confession: I’m saying NO to YES. Romy Lassally
I confess, I started off the summer with a commitment to myself (and unbeknownst to them…my family) that I would loosen up and try to say YES more often than I did during the school year. It worked for a few weeks . . .
Lay off my big brother Angelo. — Lori Mozilo
My second confession is that I am the youngest sister of Angelo Mozilo who, up until recently, was Chief Executive of Countrywide Mortgage. I am writing because, although the Congressional hearings on the mortgage crisis did indeed stoke my sense of moral outrage, my anger, this time has been reserved for Henry Waxman and the Democrats on his committee. As for the truth, it has been in very short supply.
Mom to my mom, ever mom to me. — Trudy Goodman
So before I left, I held her. She rested against me, almost in my lap. Her body felt kind of shaky, and small, and she kept murmuring motherly things to me, her voice clear and sure, repeating them to me . . .
like a chant . . .
Why change is just a breath away — Sue Smalley
Perhaps death can be seen as another ’sort’ of experience. Religions provide a shared belief that can help each of us find a comfort zone for this inevitable experience, yet for many the experience itself (its naturalness in every moment of life arising and falling throughout all of existence) can be enough.
How I roll… — Anna McDonnell
It went something like this: “It is THREE O’CLOCK in the morning. He has to be up at SEVEN. That is FOUR hours of sleep. He will probably sleep through his alarm and be late for work. I wonder if I should I wake him up tomorrow or let him sleep through his alarm clock?
Consciousness, the field and the new age
On Intent Blog Deepok Chopra has been posting some interesting video blogs on interconnection and the concept of self. Can’t help but think of Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, where Alice cries:
Curiouser and curiouser!’ . . .
Anti-Chick Lit Author Rachel Resnick interviews Anti-Dick Lit Author Seth Greenland
The only tip I can give writers about writing and selling comes down to this: find your voice. That is the only thing you have that no one else can offer. By the way, this is not easy, and may take years. If there is anything else you think you might like doing, by all means do that.
Heat for a little while on a high flame. — Amy Spies
Cooking is definitely one of those mother-daughter bonding things. Obviously, since from the get-go, mothers are nurturing their children–feeding them literally from the womb, making their lunches, stocking their refrigerators.
Way to go Seth!
Seth’s novel Shining City comes out tomorrow and over the weekend both the Washington Post Book Review and the LA Times Book Review gave it high marks.
Bela & The Benz — Tom Teicholz
To imagine where their lives played out across centuries, to walk down those streets, to see buildings and synagogues and to be able to say my family walked these streets, my family members lived here, they were married in this place and buried here, it gives one a feeling that is larger than one’s self — a connection between present and past, a feeling of history.
God, country and the fourth of July - Susan Kaiser Greenland
With all of these other parades going on why was the lack of one on the Fourth of July so important to him? Because it was the largest and most public way he could honor a country that had given him and his family so much.