The Ice Cream Flavor Where We Are Moving (and It is Not Milwaukee)
A year ago, my husband received a call from an HR chick who had actually called him eight months...
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Tag: Cultural Anthropology
Joe’s New Bed: A Short Story
This short story was prompted by the following image: Joe’s New Bed His clean-cut world had been transformed, now shocking lit and stale with color. Even the newfound friendlings were over-the-top raucous,...
Read MoreParents and Advocacy: Teaching Children to Celebrate Diversity
Maybe its no surprise, but I was one of those kids whose parents thrust them into multicultural settings, hoping that I would think it was normal. I guess it worked. Racism is actually very hard for me to grasp, although I think...
Read MoreBeing an Advocate: What is our Responsibility to Help?
Today I was listening to a women talk about Hoops of Hope, a great organization which exists to give average people a practical way they can earn money to help orphans in Africa. It is a noble thing, really. And her plea to help...
Read MoreIslam Vs. Americanism: French Halal Food Feeding Terrorism and Fears?
I guess what it comes down to, is that I really believe loving Muslims, showing Jesus to them, is more sustainable than getting worked about about halal.
Read MoreLabel Me: A Housewife, A World Changer, and the Organization L2F Needs Network
I am part of an organization, L2F Needs Network. Actually, a best friend (the director of L2F) and I spend the majority of our non-essential-household-taking-care-of-time (there has got to be a better way to say that) running L2F. . . It’s like we are Robin Hood, but we don’t have to steal from the rich. Which is good, because I would probably have some moral qualms about that.
Read MoreQur’an Burning: America’s Response to the Spread of Islam
Burning hairspray is cool. Burning bras- that was cool in the 60’s. Burning books? Um, didn’t we learn in American English from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 that book burning is the end of society as we know it? But burning one fifth of the world’s population’s holy book!? Dude, we don’t burn cows as a public outcry against Hindus! We only burn cows if we like our steak very very well done! But that is a whole different thing.
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