After seven days, 1,000 miles on the I-5, 10 BART rides, six Muni buses, two job interviews in the FiDi, four different beds, one trip to urgent care (a friend, a false alarm), three days of music, and 60,000 competitors for a spot in the Splash Zone at Jack White’s set, this little piggy is […]
The first thing my mother said to me this morning was, “Are you still going to see that movie?” Still stupid with sleep, cracking an egg against the side of the frying pan, I asked her what she meant. “There was a shooting in Colorado,” she said, incredulous that I hadn’t heard, as if a […]
Robert Hass’s Time and Materials was given to me by a friend who probably wanted it back at some point, but it’s been over two years and the book is now irretrievably out of said friend’s reach (parents’ house, Southern California), so I think it’s safe to mention it on the Internet. Time and Materials is one of […]
Disclaimer: I am a butthead for posting these iPhone pictures, but I didn’t have a proper camera ready, and the gallery website’s images are regrettably small. Lin Hairong’s talent, however, is not diminished, and if you spend some time with her oeuvre you might just start to feel some feelings. Today’s wanderings took my mother and me […]
Anne-Marie Slaughter, formerly the director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department and dean of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, currently teaches a full course load as a professor of Politics and International Affairs, writes for print and online publications, appears at 40-50 speaking engagements per year, and is […]
Allow me to preface this post by saying that I can’t cook. I had the grand fortune of living in a 126-person cooperative house in Berkeley, CA, and one of Casa Zimbabwe’s many lovable aspects was its communal dinners prepared by student cooks who knew a thing or two about what they were doing, lemme […]
The Fu Shou Yuan cemetery in the Qingpu district of Shanghai requires almost two hours’ commute by metro and shuttle from our apartment. The area’s large boulevards lined with trees, the visible horizon, the relative calm of the traffic, and the beng di accent of locals distinguish this place from the city proper. To live here, […]
