January 10, 2020 at 5:17 pm (Calls, Explorers, Links, plans, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: causes, inspiration, Stanford, summer, teaching
One Summer. 6 Students. 6 Bikes. 10 States.
This summer, six Stanford students will spend three months biking from San Francisco to D.C., teaching hands-on educational workshops to local middle school and high school students along the way.
Read all about the project here.
Stay tuned.
November 25, 2019 at 1:08 am (Books, Calls, Conversations, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: humor, reading lists, The Philippines
Anne Glenconner pinch-hits for an ill Princess Margaret in Manila, where she and her husband are wined and dined by Imelda:
“The singing sprees continued until 3 a.m., when she would drop us off at the house, only to arrive again at eight the next day. Colin continued to be an asset, although after enduring a few days of Madame Marcos’s intense entertainment, he declared, “I simply can’t stand this anymore. This is the most exhausting thing I’ve ever done. I’m going home.” — Lady-in-Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown, p. 211
And Colin is no slouch, either: among other things, he single-handedly turned the island of Mustique into a playground for the wealthy.
The thing about Filipinos: their hospitality is relentless. And if you shun them, they do bear grudges.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
November 9, 2019 at 7:33 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Calls, Conversations, destinations, Family, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Surprises)
Tags: advice, California, novel, reading lists, Redwood City, Saturday
Really love these Redwood City scenes (where Neelay bases his electronic game company), just sayin’.
Below, a scene self has just finished reading (Neelay’s just had a telephone conversation with his mother, who’s misconstrued his reference to his female caregiver as a reference to a fiancée):
“Goodness. These things take time, Neelay.”
When they hang up, he raises his hand in the air and slams it down onto the desk’s front edge. There’s a very wrong sound, and a sharp white pain, and he knows he has broken at least one bone.
In blinding pain, he rides his private elevator down into the opulent lobby, the beautiful redwood trim paid for by millions of people’s desire to live anywhere else but here. His eyes stream with tears and rage. But quietly, politely, to the terrified receptionist, he holds up his swollen, snapped claw, and says, “I’m going to have to get to the hospital.”
He knows what’s waiting for him there, after they mend his hand. They will scold him. They’ll put him on a drip and make him swear to eat properly. As the receptionist makes her frantic calls, Neelay glances up at the wall where he has hung those words of Borges, still the guiding principle of his young life:
Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe in the future he shall be.
Note to dear blog readers: Never ever let your mother have this kind of an effect on you. Or you may end up like poor Neelay here!
Stay tuned.
October 24, 2019 at 6:18 am (Calls, Family, Links, Recommended)
Tags: causes, medicine, politics
NOTE: Lest you confuse this with Ivanka’s Global Women’s Initiative WHICH DOES NOTHING, the Global Fund for Women has existed in Menlo Park for decades, and provided small grants to women establishing their own businesses, from small villages in India and Africa, to women’s clinics, all over the world.
22 October 2019
No politician should come between a patient and their doctor, no matter what country they live in — but that’s exactly what the Trump administration has done. This is about health and rights — which transcend partisanship and borders.
One of Trump’s first actions as President was to reinstate the devastating global gag rule, which denies funding to international organizations working on global health if they provide abortion service or even referrals. This means that 26 million women and families worldwide are denied access to contraception, cancer screenings, STI treatment, and safe abortion services. And just last month, the same laws were expanded to the United States under Title X, which will prevent millions of women from being able to access affordable reproductive healthcare.
Global Fund for Women supports women’s rights organizations that are expanding legal and safe abortion access for women and girls, and funds feminist organizations that are documenting the impact of the global gag rule.
You can read more about this excellent organization, here.
October 9, 2019 at 12:56 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Calls, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Links, Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: experimental, inspiration, Just published, Literary Magazines, news, websites
And the results are out now.
Read. Read. Read.
Thank you forever, Lillian Howan, for soliciting a piece.
July 22, 2019 at 5:43 pm (Artists and Writers, Calls, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: call for submissions, Calyx Press, causes, deadlines, history, Literary Magazines, memorials, Mondays
from Brenna Crotty, Senior Editor, Calyx:
Next year, in 2020, the United States will celebrate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, and CALYX Press will turn forty-four years old. I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing that Calyx has existed for nearly half the number of years that women have had the right to vote in this country, but “astonishing” seems like the right word for it either way.
In anticipation of the centennial, and in celebration of the labor and persistence that went into women’s suffrage, CALYX is open for a special extended submission period now through July 31, 2019. We are accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on women’s participation in the political process, the myriad means through which women engage with and experience socio-political movements, and the ways full citizenship and access have been denied to different communities. Equal rights forwomen have had a long and fraught road, and our celebration of that first monumental victory in 1920 is tempered by the awareness that there is still so much progress to be made.
September 10, 2018 at 6:51 am (Calls, Sundays, Surprises)
Tags: causes, news
Because the victim was black and was in his own apartment when the cop came in and shot him, there is nothing for it but to imagine the hashtag:
Stay tuned.
August 31, 2018 at 10:40 pm (Calls, Links, Lists, The Economist, The Guardian)
Tags: causes, Fridays, news, politics, The New Yorker
In two years, Trump has arranged two of the most bizarre summits in the world:
In the meantime, what has happened to Oleg Sentsov, who was jailed as a “terrorist” for “protesting against Vladimir Putin’s illegal annexation of Crimea and the war Russia’s president unleashed in eastern Ukraine four years ago” (The Economist, 10 June 2018)? No one knows. Here’s the latest article self found about him; it was almost a month ago, in The Guardian.
Trump instead calls for Russia to be allowed back into the G7, which expelled it “for the seizure of Crimea.” According to Trump, that “happened a while ago.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 25, 2018 at 2:57 pm (Calls, Lists, plans)
Tags: causes, elections, local politics, politics
— Charlotte Observer
Half of the officials who will take part in redistricting in 2021 will be elected this year, including governors who will have veto power over rigged maps.
This year, the National Democratic Committee is targeting:
Many of these elections are taking place in districts that are already gerrymandered, so Democrats are facing an uphill battle.
But the electoral fight IS winnable. It happened in Virginia and Wisconsin.
What do we want? We want “to see voters picking their politicians instead of politicians picking their voters.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 17, 2018 at 5:53 pm (Calls, Recommended, The New York Times)
Tags: causes, inspiration, politics, Protests
This letter was published weeks before the Trump-Putin Summit. Every word could have been published today.
Wake up, America! Our democratic institutions are under attack — from within.
To the Editor:
Many of us watch these developments in international relations with a mix of sadness, anxiety and extreme anger. It’s almost as if President Trump were saying to us, well, the system that enormously benefited me and my generation for the last 70 years was wonderful, but you don’t need it and can’t have it.
Most infuriating, many of the people now rapidly trying to destroy what took generations to build and maintain won’t be around to see the aftermath. But we will, and so will our children. We need to start voting all these people out in November and begin the hard work of repairing the damage.
D.P.D., Seattle
Stay tuned.
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