Note: I’ve made two small updates below to reflect new or clarified information that I’ve gotten since writing this. As quite a few people are still coming to this post, I want it to reflect the latest information (6/1/10). As you likely know: A flotilla of activists was on its way yesterday to try to [...]
All posts for the month May, 2010
A few thoughts on the flotilla.
Posted by emilylhauser on May 31, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/a-few-thoughts-on-the-flotilla/
The hugeness of a little boy.
It’s another field trip! This time not to the fun and lovely Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen, but rather to the no-doubt noisy and crowded bowling alley/mini-golf joint — a treat for the boy’s class of out-going fifth graders. Out-going fifth graders! Next week is the last week of elementary school for the boy, now ten [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 28, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/the-hugeness-of-a-little-boy/
Calling all US Senators: Please support Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Dianne Feinstein is circulating a pretty strongly worded letter in support of President Obama’s efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks — or, from my reading of it, a pretty strongly worded letter urging the President to push “proximity talks” forward into something more substantive. There is no doubt the road to a peace agreement will [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 26, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/calling-all-us-senators-please-support-israeli-palestinian-peace/
The limits of awkward conversation (or: Bono, Obama, and me).
At some point in the past decade, I realized that, contrary to what I think is expected of the average American, I’m not actually all that interested in meeting people I admire from a distance. What would I say to Rachel Maddow, or Carl Kasell, or Eric Clapton? I’m fairly certain I would do nothing [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 25, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/the-limits-of-awkward-conversation-or-bono-obama-and-me/
Today/this week.
So… today, I gave presentations about the holiday of Shavuot (complete with cheesecake!) in each of my kids’ classrooms, in between also attending their talent shows. This after staying up until 1:15 finishing a work project, planning my presentations, and making the cheesecakes. This after spending the day working my butt off in the morning, [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 21, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/todaythis-week/
Since You’ve/U Been Gone – Aretha vs. Kelly
A week or so ago, there I was driving along listening to Chicago’s own WXRT, when what should come across the airwaves but a helluva song that I’d never heard before, Aretha Franklin’s “Since You’ve Been Gone.” Well now, like it or not, I am a member of the American Idol generation, and though I [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 20, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/since-youveu-been-gone-aretha-vs-kelly/
Miss USA Rima Fakih? I turn to my library.
So a few days ago, Rima Fakih, an Arab-American from Dearborn, Michigan was crowned Miss USA. She is, IMHO, quite lovely. And I am sort of predisposed to being all for anything that allows for greater integration of the Arab-American community into the broader American story. It’s time and past time, and well, hooray for [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 18, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/missusa-rima-fakih-i-turn-to-my-library/
Good stuff: For the Mideast geeks. (Holla!)
Indeed.
Posted by emilylhauser on May 17, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/good-stuff-for-the-mideast-geeks-holla/
Good stuff: Alternative transportation.
As @Chicagoist tweeted earlier today (yes, I now get all my news of the world beyond the confines of my skull from Twitter. What’s your point?): You look like you could use a video of a dog riding a turtle. (It’s actually a tortoise, but I’m not going to let that get between Chicagoist and [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 12, 2010
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/good-stuff-alternative-transportation/
