for all my fellow word-lovers out there:
- MoorishGirl
- Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature
- Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America
and for those of you who prefer pictures instead:
- Bendib Cartoon: Independent, uncensored, free-speech political cartoons
All links via Dove’s Eye View, another weblog you should read. Because I said so. So […]

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lather, rinse, repeat
The soap they use inside the carwash is blue and purple, and it smells like bubblegum.
(In desperation, I took my car through the carwash for perhaps only the second time in my life, but it didn’t do so hot a job after all, even though the car looks kinda sorta decent now. I […]

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sunshine
The latest tagline at the top of the page (traces of sun left in spines pour beautiful through eyes) is from this beautiful poem by Sriram Shamasunder, who even has a weblog that I most definitely recommend you read, including as many of the archived posts as you can cram into your day. Like, all […]

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something about the open road
While I was driving home on Thursday night, my rear passenger tire gave out. Thank God I was close to home and already in the far right lane in preparation for exiting. Twenty more feet, and I could have even been off the freeway, although, in hindsight, it would have been […]

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sanctuary speak-outs.
One of the courses I’m enrolled in this quarter is a Community & Regional Development class entitled “Ethnicity and American Communities.” If I had to pick one single class I were absolutely in love with during my entire university experience, this would most likely be it. Interestingly enough, the other likely contenders fall into […]

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re. “sore losers”
And one more thing, from a post by Leila, whose entire archives deserve to be read:

I think I need to clarify what I meant when I said I hoped we wouldn’t be sore losers. I did not mean that we should give up activism, our beliefs, or our place in society. I did […]

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still wearing my “i voted” sticker - for all the difference it made.
As always, Sofia said it very well:

Let me be like the Ahl Al Kahf and surrender to slumber for another century, or at least another four years, where God protects me for being a true believer, so that when I wake up the […]

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i voted today, and i hope you do, too.
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. […]

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