Archive for June, 2010
Of all the browsers I have and regularly use – Firefox 3, IE 8, Google Chrome, Opera 9 – I most unfashionably like IE the best. Sigh. There goes my geek card.
Wednesday, June 30th
Posted in random confession, what is there to say?
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Part of repairing and recapturing the past is first insisting that it exists. So much of what we know, or think we know, is maybe not wrong so much as it is part of that oft told single story. Perhaps, through photos and memories, another part of the story can be told. Disney, in [...]
Tuesday, June 29th
Posted in culture and such, faces, repairing the past
| Tags: black history, Black princess, Disney, Princess and the Frog
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morning glories —- awakened in the middle of a dream CHIYO-NI (1703 – 1775) via Yellow sky over Chicago Ohara, Koson, 1877-1945, Y?gure no hansen Title,” Translation: Evening sailboats. (via)
Sunday, June 27th
Posted in random beauty
| Tags: Chicago, Chiyo-ni, Koson Ohara
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I wish, sometimes, that all I had to do was wander around and search out new things to read. And that I had time to read them all. What About Our Daughters says: STOP WHAT YOU”RE DOING AND APPLY FOR —>PBS Diversity & Innovation Fund Didn’t I tell you to stop what you are doing? [...]
Saturday, June 26th
Posted in hope, repairing the past, storytellers
| Tags: Cherrie Moranga, Gloria Anzaldua, PBS, This Bridge Called My Back
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Friday, June 25th
Posted in random confession
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For someone who plans on writing novels, I have an odd problem; fear of fiction. Or, I guess, fear of writing fiction, because I quite like reading it. When I was very young I wrote stories all the time, and sometimes even illustrated them. The older I grew, though, the less I wrote and the [...]
Wednesday, June 23rd
Posted in goodnight moon, journal, stuff, writing
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I’m sitting here with my headset on, but nothing coming through on them because I can’t figure out if I want to listen to/watch more TED Talks, or save some for later so that I can absorb the ones I have listened to. It’s better to save some but it’s like being parched and cracking [...]
Tuesday, June 22nd
Posted in learning stuff, telling our stories
| Tags: Chris Abani, Kavita Ramdas, Ory Orkolloh, TED Talks
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That last 1o or 15 minutes always seems to go so slowly you’d almost swear the hands on the clock were moving backwards. Just a few more minutes and you’re free to go, to get into the wind, to hit happy hour, to… but then the boss pops in with something that has to be [...]
Saturday, June 19th
Posted in (in)significant heroes, bone of my bone
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So, the book is finally taking shape – in my head, at least. I have the main plotline(s) down and the way it is set up is perfect for a series. If I can do it right, it will have all the elements that I was looking for; relevance to today’s world, yet lots of [...]
Thursday, June 17th
Posted in journal, random
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“We’re not keeping him long…. my mom’s going to take him back and get a new one that is not so bad.“ Said the five year old of the two year old – who got himself dressed and grabbed his supplies (a bottle and two diapers), in hopes he could go to school too.
Friday, June 4th
Posted in grandma blogging
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