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Some Snowfall Listening: My Favorite Podcasts
As the snow begins to fall here in New York, I thought it would be a good time for a post I’ve been intending for a while: recommendations of my favorite podcasts! I’ve found myself telling various...
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Does a Movement Need an Ask?
This past Saturday, I spent an inspiring few hours marching through New York as part of the Millions March NYC — a protest of police violence against people of color and of our failure to indict the...
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ULTIMATE EMOJI SMACKDOWN
Last night at about 2am I had a great idea: a bracket tournament for emojis. Which is the one emoji to rule them all — screaming cat? fingernails? ghost? Now it’s up to you to decide. I’ve assembled my...
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ULTIMATE EMOJI SMACKDOWN: ROUND OF 16
It’s on! The first round of voting has closed, and after some nail-biters, we have our top sixteen emojis. – The closest race by far was between prayer hands (aka high five?!) and praise hands, with...
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ULTIMATE EMOJI SMACKDOWN: ELITE 8
Wow. I’m shocked. The top-left corner of this bracket is not at all what I expected. – Who knew the heart emoji had such staying power? Good-bye praise hands — nothing for you to celebrate today. – And...
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ULTIMATE EMOJI SMACKDOWN: FINAL FOUR
Poop: flushed! That’s the closest thing to a headline I can think of for the Elite 8 results, which saw the flamenco dancer salsa-ing her way up the bracket (different dances, I know). Now she’ll meet...
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ULTIMATE EMOJI SMACKDOWN: FINALS!
It all comes down to this. Carthage v. Rome. Dewey v. Truman. Ruben v. Clay. And now… Flamenco Dancer v. Kissy Face! WHO WILL WIN IT ALL? The ultimate symbol of celebration and sass, or the absolutely...
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ULTIMATE EMOJI SMACKDOWN, FINAL TALLY: FLAMENCO BEATS KISSY FACE, 29-29
Then: Now: So, there you have it! Kissy face was heavily favored going into the final vote, but flamenco dancer was able to pull out a tie. It just goes to show, we’re both sassy/self-celebratory AND...
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Are Australians Better at Keeping Resolutions?
Wouldn’t it be great if the new year began during warm weather, rather than in the dead of winter? That’s what I thought this morning, nestled in my blanket cocoon, self-hating about my lack of gym...
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Pre-Lifetimes; Or, How The Past Is Crazy (And Closer Than We Think)
Yesterday I was talking to a guy who moved to NYC from North Carolina. When I noted that he didn’t have much of an accent, he quipped that there wasn’t anything too Southern about his upbringing in...
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Why I’m With Her — and What Comes Next
In 2003, I went to Washington, D.C. on a school trip. The mandate of “Washington Seminar” was to come face-to-face with politicians, staffers, and journalists doing the day-to-day work of making and...
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Why I’m Still Crying
It’s been six days since 11/9, and I’m starting to sob less. But it still catches me off guard. It happens when I read the stories about the spate of hate crimes we’re now seeing nationwide — the...
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Trump Terror: The Hierarchy of Fears
Late Tuesday night, and in the days afterward, friends and loved ones reached out wth emails, texts, and Facebook messages. They apologized that the election didn’t go my way after the work I put into...
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Where We Go From Here, Part 1 of 3: What Went Wrong?
Just about seventeen days ago, the 2016 presidential polls closed. Since then, we’ve mourned the result — tacking between shocked stupor and resolve to act. We’re stuck somewhere between anger and...
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Where We Go From Here, Part 2 of 3: What Do We Owe the Victors?
The Sunday after the election, I was at a meeting with a group of highly educated, progressive Jews. We were working, but we were also still processing the unimaginable. Rather than letting the...
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