Click below to here just a snippet of the experience the Weathersby family had bringing their daughter Katie into their hearts and home. **Please note** This is a rough-cut, sample pilot episode, constructed in a very short period of time, so as to exhibit some sample content for my HIST 7040 final project. This will [...]
Not my mom. Translator Aya Watanabe has been translating tweets coming out of Japan in the weeks following the devastation they have been facing. I found her story, actually, also via Twitter, and she was reading some of her favorites. The translations are obviously longer than 140 characters in English, since in Japanese, far more can be [...]
If you ever complain about the price of your jeans, I want you to find a sewing machine and try to hem a pair. Granted, the industrial size and strength of the machines they use to produce them on a large scale is much greater than my personal machine, but I hemmed a pair last night and [...]
The Women’s Health Initiative, which has been researching and publishing findings on women’s health since 1991, has recently come out with some new results, involving the doses of estrogen and progestin that women who are menopausal should take in order to maintain healthy hormone levels–and so reduce risks of things like breast cancer and strokes. [...]
I have been thinking a lot about adoption lately. It is a subject that really fascinates me. I like the idea of scrambling things we think we know–like biology and genetics and “family”–and giving them far greater parameters. Over Christmas break, I read a book about the diaspora of Chinese daughters over the past twenty [...]