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Facebook has suggested a friend to me. It’s someone who I share no ‘friends’ with on Facebook, and have ever only corresponded with via my gmail account. I checked their profile page and while it is set to high privacy, the country that they live in gives it away. Why would Facebook know to suggest [...]
I still read PostSecret, and usually they are simply entertaining. In this week’s batch, there is a very simple one, just handwritten words on lined paper. It reads: I want to thank my 2nd grade teacher for giving me her lunch on that class field trip when I told her we had no food at [...]
Lessons from the Rape Culture by Shaker SugarLeigh There are a million ways to try to make a woman shut up. And they’ve all been used on me. Now suddenly I’ve been given the gift of those who are willing to listen and I barely know where to start. I’d like to start with what’s [...]
An excerpt from the article: Belo, a city of 2.5 million people, once had 11 percent of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost 20 percent of its children going hungry. Then in 1993, a newly elected administration declared food a right of citizenship. The officials said, in effect: If you are too poor [...]
Maia went to doggy daycare for the first time today! I have to keep her crated while I am at work and it bothers me. It bothers my mother too, and she was the one who suggested doggy daycare, and is going to give me some money towards it. There is a facility that is [...]
I am planning a trip to Australia sometime in the next year and a half. A girlfriend of mine got accepted to med school in Brisbane and that is giving me the opportunity I needed to travel down under. I have 100,000 points saved up on my Aeroplan Visa, which will fly me in the [...]