Well, it’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I started blogging. I’ve really enjoyed it. I’ve written 178 posts in 12 months, which I feel is a healthy but manageable pace. Most important, it has not felt like work. My family reads my blog regularly, and they’re the reason why I started blogging
Category: Personal
Google Analytics Data and My Blog’s 1-yr. Anniversary
Well, it’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I started blogging. I’ve really enjoyed it. I’ve written 178 posts in 12 months, which I feel is a healthy but manageable pace. Most important, it has not felt like work. My family reads my blog regularly, and they’re the reason why I started blogging
Help 7 yr.-old Zane Get Healthy
A 7 yr.-old shouldn’t have to wonder if he will die. A friend told me about Zane (see left), a little boy in Missoula, MT, who is suffering from brain seizures. She knows folks who know the family. A tough situation: a very sick child, limited health insurance, and little income. Here is a note
What’s Your ‘Sunday Routine’?
One of my favorite parts of the Sunday New York Times is the “Sunday Routine” articles, wherein New Yorkers are interviewed about their weekend rituals. Today’s column features a pro-basketball player, New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler. Here’s what I do on Sundays: SLEEP IN, BUT RARELY I’m usually up at 6 a.m. on weekends.
My Trip Back to Indonesia in 2nd Grade
I just read an interesting piece in today’s New York Times. Here’s an excerpt: In America, all men are believed to be created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. But Nigerians are brought up to believe that our society consists of higher and lesser beings. Some are born to own and
On This MLK Day
Sometimes you work, and you don’t see the benefits. Sometimes you toil away, and the hoped-for goals continue to elude you. And, sometimes, the impact you have happens after you’ve gone. I think the work of Martin Luther King, Jr., is one such example. When he was alive, social justice was elusive. Gains were hard-fought.