Category: Personal Essays
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From the Mouths of Grandmas: For a Happy Life, Sleep Naked!
Grandma Mickey was bold and outspoken. She went to the hairdresser on a weekly basis to have her hair permed and dyed a vibrant red. Looks were important. But living voraciously was even more important. Grandma Kaufman, in contrast, was more reserved and strict. But out of her quiet strength grew a family that knew the value…
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Majority of US public aid recipients are from working families
Originally posted on WORDVIRUS: By Zaida Green 25 April 2015 A recent report by the University of California, Berkeley, shows that 73 percent of people enrolled in welfare programs are from working families, surviving on poverty-level wages. An earlier study by the UC Berkeley reported that 25 percent of all workers in the United States…
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Chemical engineer develops sanitary towels to help girls stay in school (Day 335)
Originally posted on IChemE: Here in the UK and other developed countries, it’s all too easy to take some things for granted, such as access to education, to clean water and to sanitary facilities. When we look at the developing world, it can be difficult to comprehend the challenges people face on a daily basis. Photo Credit |…
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So We’ve Been Publicly Enlightened: What Jon Ronson Wants Us to Learn from Our Own Behavior
Originally posted on musing: Jon Ronson discusses So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show In So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson tells the stories of people who have been savagely pilloried for their mistakes, and — just like when these events unfolded in real life — it’s impossible to look away. There’s…
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breathe. balance. be.
“Practice being with yourself,” she said, as if I could be anything else. But then, I’m not always so good at being with myself as I imagine is a pretty common sentiment. And I’m sure that is why our yoga instructor pointed us in that direction. We have a predilection to involve ourselves in a…
Trynia Kaufman 