News from pakistan…

Dear S,
Thank you so much for your email and for thinking of us. This is probably one of the worst things that could ever have happened to Pakistan.  Regardless of whether one agreed or disagreed with her politics, this is absolutely awful. Everyone in Aahung is safe, and everyone eventually made it home or to [...]

No one should die like this

I’m not writing anything here that you aren’t going to hear somewhere else, but I have to write it. Pakistan has been on my mind a lot between convos with friends and activists that live there and all the craziness in the news. We know that Musharaf is gonna steal these elections, but damn, was [...]

Verry Merry Un-christmas…

So, there’s a spirit abounding. Consumerist and capitalist in its nature, it hordes the day, claiming in all its benevolence to be about love and family when in fact it is nothing more than a reminder of the 1974 fading plastic beach chairs that we sit on next to an empty swimming pool at the [...]

December rememberings

I am in the UN and I’m writing this. See, our lives are not easily boxed and packaged and delivered. I am here to do some negotiations and it’s an extraordinary time, but I must pause and remember people I love who left me in Decembers past. And as the years have rolled by and [...]