On telling the muse, “Go bother someone else today”
My sister sent me a link to this TED talk, from last year, by Elizabeth Gilbert. Eat Pray Love wasn’t really my kind of…
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Confronting Rape as a Weapon of War: A Comprehensive Report
What expats really need
I was having coffee the other day with a media trainer the other day, who’s here with his family. It’s awkward to retell someone…
Read MoreThe Internet just got (more) awesome
Thank you, Oxford University Press. The scholarly publisher has just launched what one magazine I’ve never heard of but is published by Conde Nast…
Read MoreSharing the mission
This week, I start blogging at Change.org’s Global Poverty site. I hope you’ll come over, check out the site, and join in the dynamic…
Read MorePregnant and embedded: Not your usual Afghanistan story
I just finished reading this remarkable piece by Elizabeth Rubin, a foreign correspondent who’s been coming and going from Afghanistan for quite awhile. Her…
Read MoreWill Steve Jobs’ #iPad kill free speech?
I would have seen that headline and rolled my eyes, except for this: The man who just won the Pulitzer Prize for cartoons can’t…
Read MoreObama names Director of War Atrocities, croons to advocates, “Baby, it’s not how it sounds, I swear!”
It’s a mini-round up of the two most recent things I’ve read: One, Obama now has a war atrocities czar — formally known as…
Read MoreRules of the Road
Disclaimers, comment policy, and other sundry blog-admin things. All views expressed on this website are my own and should not be interpreted as representing…
Read MoreGood reads
While I’m distracted from writing by mundane daily life things, check out this stuff, which comes from the “Things I’m currently reading” list… Guernica…
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