News Analysis
Free from this
I can't be the only one who really remembers 2016, right?
Personal
Still glancing back ..
I have been thinking a lot about diasporas lately. What it means to live long term in a society outside the one you were raised in.
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Why I'm excited to vote for Kamala Harris
She will be the standard bearer for a compelling alternate vision for the future of the United States.
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Still American
On loving and leaving the United States
Writing (Links)
A blog by any other name ...
I read so many Substacks, in fact, that it can take up my entire morning--reading my subscriptions on the app, then commenting, then noticing who has 're-stacked' one of my articles . . . Wait, what does this remind me of?
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Death by chocolate
I overindulged over the long Easter holiday - not in beer - as is the local custom - but in sugar. Family from home sent us a care package of yummy chocolate bunnies, eggs and truffles. And my 16-year-old daughter has discovered baking (thanks a lot, Preppy Kitchen!). She spent
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An open letter to Duolingo
Please make the early levels more tourist-friendly.
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This is your brain on menopause
I'm not wrong. It turns out menopause can break your brain.
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We moved to Berlin
It's funny where life takes you.
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Love song for a little house
By the time I publish this post, our 1952 brick ranch on a busy Decatur corner will belong to someone else.
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Help for Ukraine
I am having trouble focusing on work or normal life tasks even though the conflict is on the other side of the world.
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Waiting for spring
Someone said on Twitter that 2021 really came in with that "hold my beer" energy and they were not wrong.