Archive for October, 2008

ACTing

October 15, 2008

Look, I lead a busy life. I’m busy at work all day, crunching the numbers 9 to 5. And then there’s the long commute to take into account. So when I get home, sometimes, I just want to kick back, have a nice g&t and read the paper.

That’s my ’50s-style husband rationalization of the precipitous [...]

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October 8, 2008

That’s how many steps I walk up in Morningside Park each Wednesday. That park, I think, is a very effective divider between our gentrified neighborhood and Harlem. Good job geography? No, not really good job geography. Good job to people for using geography to support segregation.
Also, being a soccer mom is stressful, especially when it [...]