R E S P E C T Find out what it means to me. It means: equality. Feminism, it’s a scary word: why? Because a lot people assume that comes with man-hating. Do I hate men? Quite the contrary, I just dislike that as a woman, I am not always offered the same opportunities […]
Every 13.3 minutes, somebody in America takes their own life. Suicide. It’s something we joke about sometimes and something we avoid talking about sometimes. It’s a dark topic, but this Sunday (10/26/14), at the “Out of Darkness Walk for Suicide Prevention” in Manhattan, activists, loved ones, and survivors are uniting to emerge from the darkness […]
They giggled and shared joy as if their connection ran deep. “What year are you guys in?” Him: “Senior” Her: “Sophomore” Him: “goddamn” Her: “You didn’t know that? Him: “No….” [learn_more] [/learn_more]
As a gamer you could spend forty minutes or forty hours with a game and still have an idea about whether you like the game or not. On the occasion that you might discuss the game casually with a friend you might say something like “the story sucks” or “what’s up with the camera angle, […]
If I told you that we would see the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants in the World Series before this season started, what would you have said? You would probably call me crazy. You would point at the Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, Baltimore Orioles and Detroit Tigers and tell me […]
Walking through campus, it is almost impossible to find someone without a cell phone, computer, or tablet glued to his face. Except this man. Instead, he sat on a bench, leaning forward with his elbows to his knees. He held his hands together on his chin, and his eyes searched the sky as […]
You’ve seen it before. Maybe you use it all the time. Maybe you haven’t touched it since high school or college. But it is likely that, early in your education, the = sign showed up in some nasty column of homework problems. In that context, “=” seems like a prompt for the answer.
With the younger generations, environmentalism goes through phases. Sometimes “going green” is what all the cool kids are doing, and sometimes talking about recycling is the best way to ward off unwanted dates. A couple of weeks ago, the inaugural People’s Climate March took place in New York City, just days before the UN’s Climate […]
Walking down Main Street this week, I was overcome by an unusual redolence. The scent, extremely pleasing to my olfactory senses and bearing hints of citric and floral notes, permeated the air throughout the day. This is Kew Garden Hills, I unfortunately had to remind myself, not the Caribbean. Looking at my calendar, I immediately […]
