I have been familiar with this bizarre sight from having wandered by it previously, but yesterday it struck me as particularly bizarre. You see, I had just left the House Committee on Foreign Relations meeting and was pondering the reason for such meetings — the seemingly strange way that both Congresspeople and the viewers act, [...]
Wow! Talk about exciting. I attended a full meeting of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday morning and got a good taste for how Congress runs. While there was plenty on the agenda for the meeting, it really all came down to discussion of saving the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Well, [...]
Now here’s something worth writing about! I attended an event at the Brookings Institution yesterday entitled Weak and Failed States: What They Are, Why They Matter and What To Do About Them.
In addition to reflecting many of the sentiments that I long to hear more discussion of, they were announcing the release of the new [...]
I have been searching for a hat for about two and half years.
An exceptionally kind friend of mine (ha!) gave me a hat just over a year ago that was exactly what I was looking for. I have since worn it in winter and summer — even though it was really too warm and fashionably [...]
I know I’m late on this post, but it was started late on Wednesday the 20th —
What nasty weather today! I went to all the trouble of traversing the city in the snow and rain to attend a very interesting lecture:
Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy Series: What is Global Inequality and Why it [...]
I actually accomplished something to day.
That’s not to say that I don’t accomplish something every day, but let’s be honest - fewer are the days that accomplishment feels like accomplishment than those that it drifts by as if nothing happened.
Today wasn’t like that.
Today, I can look back, see the accomplishments, and consider them as greater [...]
And so it begins anew…
I have begun working on the Capstone project again - I’m finally ready to finish assembling it for final submittal to the Center for Global Affairs, create and make the video of our final presentation publicly available, and put the whole thing up on the web in a more user-friendly format.
While [...]
