(I had never seen this picture before today. A girlfriend shared it and a powerful message along with it. She said, “When it comes to women’s rights, to really see change it is going to take men to step up for their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters.”) This is Kathrine Switzer, running the Boston Marathon in 1967. As she […]
Pop Culture
Kanye West Goes Nowhere and More Pop Culture Updates
Always the last to know. It’s a sentiment that many expats face within their personal and social lives but also in their media lives. Media? You ask. Why does media matter? Media effects our conversations, our language, our ideas – anything from new terms like “man spreading” to who you’ll vote for can be guided by what […]
Is There No Place Like Home?
Dorothy clicked her heels together and repeated, “There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s…” Clickety-clack. She was back, smack down in the middle of Kansas, the place there was no place like. Fascinating! Not that the clicking of heels magically transported her home, or her journey through whimsical Oz, or her Get-Along Gang of […]