Becky Blab

Recently, I keep starting out my posts with numbers. Perhaps it helps me to establish the landmarks, to measure my success on this uncharted path. For me, these three years are the longest ever time that I’ve been settled in one place since I graduated from high school in 1999. I’m discounting the four years [...]

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Kelly shares an experience of sexual harrassment and culture-shock while living in Cairo: It took a long time for me to process that culture shock–perhaps I am still–but one thing I know is this: The conversation is dynamic between an individual and her environment and just as it would be absolutely absurd to respond in a [...]

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[youtube DV4lNLCQBKU] I’ve been feeling a bit nostaligic for France, and this video popped up as I was searching for French films. It offers some seemingly frivolous insights, which are actually at the heart of cultural differences between Americans, French, and whoever else. For example, Mireille‘s observation that American women don’t drink water (because they’re [...]

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Thanks mom for sending me this blog post by Suzanne Vega on her new song, “Daddy Is White.” You can listen to it, too.

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The Jaipur Times today has an article called ‘Penning their way to freedom’: Determined to find their own expression, women in Jaipur are increasingly taking up writing as a serious pursuit. Despite cultural challenges and family responsibilities, they are living their passion as successful authors. Today, most of them have to their credit, several books [...]

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