Back in the day, for several hundred days, I was the editor for three community newspapers and wrote a weekly column for a daily newspaper. That meant that everything I did that week came out on Thursday. It was the one day of the week I could take at least half a breath — and it was the day when it hit the fan. If I wasn’t getting calls about the column, then someone was accusing us of having personal vendettas against high-school kids because his kid’s photo wasn’t in the paper. Despite all that, Thursdays were actually kind of fun.
Shaking off a bad Attitude
Won’t normally cross-post from the tennis blog, but this has just been me, yo, right here: I’m not gonna lie – part of the reason my husband and I decided to uproot our family southbound was so that the kids could be outside more (that’s code for “we could be outside more playing tennis!”). We’re … Read more
Bloody Sunday really happened, you guys.
When I was in high school, I had to complete a public service project for one of my classes. I chose to take a Saturday morning and go to Fulton Avenue in Brooklyn, and try to get people to register to vote. It sounded easy enough. And it wasn’t physically demanding or in a particularly … Read more
#Oscarssowhite. duh.
Was it me or were the Oscars really awkward to watch this year? In the wake of accusations of racism against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it seemed like they set a new quota for this year — at least one person of color in each frame. The awards ceremony usually does … Read more