I was really happy to hear about a new organization that was founded right after the Newtown shootings:  Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.  Reading about them gives me hope, for the first time, that maybe the tide could start to turn a little.  Just think about how effective Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been in working against teenage DWI…

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At 7:05 am that Saturday in early March, I caught the NYC-bound train from Baltimore with two friends, Shara and Clare. We were completely silly, taking pictures out the window, taking pictures of each other taking pictures out the window, taking pictures of the train. We all are terribly in love with train rides. I think that, if the plans for our day had just been to ride the train the whole time, we would have been almost as… Continue

Fall, 2009:



Finished rereading S&S last night and can I just take a moment to talk about how hard it is to squeeze in all of this reading? I love reading, don't get me wrong. I have often wished someone would pay me for a year to just read, but having a (sort of) deadline for a year of study creates so much pressure. I won't have gotten nearly as far as I hope to by then, I'm discovering. Marianne was going to read 6 hours a day for a 'twelvemonth.' Six hours! I can barely manage… Continue