26 Feb 2015
2 Comments On Saturday night, I had the privilege of hosting three of my 13 year-old son's friends for a sleep-over. They are lovely boys, and all I have to do is feed them and ignore them. I don't mention things...
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19 Feb 2015
3 Comments Solar year, 2015---celebrated in most of the Western world--- is small potatoes compared to its lunar counterpart starting today: The Year of the Goat, 4713. Today, in many countries across Asia,...
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16 Dec 2014
1 Comment In October, several #WorldMoms attended the ONE Girls & Women AYA Summit at the Google Headquarters in Washington, DC. One of the many powerful panels we heard from was entitled Change Through...
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11 Dec 2014
2 Comments When I was eight years old, my mom moved from our home, outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to start a new life for herself in Los Angeles, California. Growing up on the East Coast of the US, in the 1970's,...
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04 Dec 2014
1 Comment This month marks our third anniversary of living in Jakarta. Considering how empty our house was when we first arrived here, I am staggered at how much stuff we have acquired in that short time. We...
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03 Dec 2014
3 Comments What is To the Market and how did it get started? TO THE MARKET | Survivor-made Goods (TTM) combines the powers of commerce and storytelling to empower the world’s most courageous survivor populations....
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20 Nov 2014
1 Comment Big changes are taking place in Indonesia lately with the new President Joko Widodo (or as we Indonesians lovingly call him, Jokowi) taking office last month. Six days after he took office, Jokowi...
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1 Comment Taking responsibility for our actions is not always easy to do. It is funny how you see someone go on about the enemies in her life, who have denied her the success she so deserves. People spend more...
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17 Nov 2014
1 Comment Imagine the scene: an eight year old girl with a Facebook account – allowed for by her parents. I will call her Maria. Maria’s parents both work full time and after school she stays at home with the maid....
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05 Nov 2014
16 Comments Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? I live in Kimberley, the diamond capital of South Africa. Kimberley is a smallish, dusty town that gets extremely hot in summer – living...
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