The kids and I attended the local celebration and it was great. There were three speeches by local school children, a dance performed by children in the local Hmong community and a step dance performed by members of the local Black Youth United group. Plus seeing the inauguration live in such a crowd [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘community’
January 6, 2009
Altered States
Sometimes I feel the need to make sense of our society’s drug policy. For a brief moment in the ’60s (or so I’ve heard, having not made my entrance into this world until 1970) there was a subculture of people experimenting with altered states of consciousness, often induced chemically. But besides that, we have all [...]
January 2, 2009
Friends
My parents never had any friends. I know you’re saying, come on, don’t exaggerate, but I’m being perfectly serious. They still don’t. It’s the two of them, punto final. They are not particularly anti-social, they just can’t be bothered.
So, having had no example, I’ve always had to make up the adult friend thing as I went [...]
December 10, 2008
More Facebook Insights…
Every once in a while a few new observations occur to me about this social networking site.
Or maybe the observations are simply about my own life.
For example, you can organize your friends into categories. I currently have five: people from high school, people from college, friends my husband and I met through his job in [...]
December 2, 2008
The world is still spinning…
And I didn’t have anything to drink! Just the whirlwind of vacation that leaves one needing a vacation…
Being around so much family made me want so much to bring it back with me somehow. I am getting to know some people in my new area but my level of community is nothing like when we [...]
November 26, 2008
Have a Fabulous Holiday Full of Food and Love…
…and football, if you’re into such things!
I’m going to be off-line until next Tuesday at the earliest… Even more than a premature jonesing for my daily internet fix, which I have survived many times, this is the first time in my life that I feel like I am actually going to miss my internet community. [...]
November 13, 2008
Never the twain shall meet…
I’ve been inspired by a post I read over at Idea Jump! and wanted to describe the garden path I ended up wandering down.
I have long pondered the split between one’s public and private life. My parents have always held this divide as sacred. Heaven forbid anyone should know what color the couch is. It’s [...]
October 20, 2008
Taking a ride downtown
Let me preface this post by saying, if your community has a police ride-along program, you should RUN not walk to the police station and sign up. It is must-see tv up close and personal.
I was worried that the officer would find my presence annoying, but he said that he enjoys the company, and by [...]
August 15, 2008
Tragic End to a New Life
I read a story online at CNN this morning about a baby who died from being shaken. Normally I try to avoid these tragic tales because I empathize so deeply that it colors my whole day a dark depressing shade of gloomy.
But in this case I feel the need to give testimony from my own [...]
October 31, 2007
Internet Community, or Just a New Way to Play With Yourself?
What does it mean when the people you interact with most on Facebook are the people you live with?
I like that I am connected to people in my past. And by past, I mean just the last couple of years. We recently moved across the continent, and all those folks I got to [...]
