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What good things do guns and abortion serve?

What good things do guns and abortion serve?

After another person shot American children in a school, we’re back to the familiar swirl of adrenaline-raising memes and heartfelt posts. It’s frustrating, as Brian writes, when those in power choose not to use their power to improve policy… and

Cee February 2018April 2018 Spirituality, USA 2 Comments Read more

How to grieve a good move

How to grieve a good move

I wrote this a year ago as I was moving across the country. And yet I held it close, because it felt taboo. We’re supposed to get excited about what feels good in our bones, right? Instead, I felt the

Cee October 2015January 2018 Spirituality 2 Comments Read more

Stories from Kazakhstan: “I brought home love”

Stories from Kazakhstan: “I brought home love”

Low in a cardboard box in the entryway, Yucca shoves himself into the corner of his cage. Before him, fine hands scatter chopped lettuce (a precious commodity, here) and fill a dim platter with water. Stepping back from the turtle,

Cee March 2014January 2018 Kazakhstan No Comments Read more

Bailing out the American economy

Bailing out the American economy

Steven Gray’s article, Can the Black Middle Class Survive, has stuck with me. I remember his excellent work as a reporter on Detroit for TIME magazine. Yet after a painful layoff, he lays out the challenges that middle-class Blacks faced in the recent economic tremors of America:

Cee January 2014January 2018 Economics & Class, USA No Comments Read more

Oh pupil of my eyes: translating the most famous Kazakh song

Oh pupil of my eyes: translating the most famous Kazakh song

The video below lets you listen to perhaps the most famous Kazakh song, which I’ve caught myself humming recently as I’m doing the dishes, rather surprising my housemate. The song is called “Kozimnin Karasi,” which literally means “pupil of my

Cee December 2012January 2018 Kazakhstan 1 Comment Read more

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