Pages from a CNA’s Notebook [1] JOMO wrote this about her job and her organizing at a nursing home in Washington State in 2010. Given the COVID19 crisis, we are reposting the piece with an intro from JOMO. **** In a few short days, the greater Seattle region became the epicenter of Covid 19 here […]
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Regina and the Racist
“When my son was murdered, I read Job,” Regina said. Regina was my ride-share driver, fifty-something, and a seat-full of voluptuous curves. She was chatty and she talked with her hands vociferously, which was only a little scary. After each burst of information, they’d reclaim the steering wheel. Usually, Regina told me, she has a […]
Adventures in Cruiseland
Cruise ships are big—the ships are incredibly large and the number of worldwide passengers grows steadily. Many of the big ships are four football fields long, a half football field wide and almost a football field high (imagine the field standing upright on an end zone). Estimates for 2019 are that 20 million people went on […]
A Short Note on May Stevens
In August of 2018, I posted an article titled “The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens” about the life and work of Ms. Stevens. I recently learned that she had died at the age of 95 in December of 2019. According to a long obituary in The New York Times, she died of Alzheimer’s disease after a long stay […]
Warding off Loneliness at Walmart: the Misadventures of a Former Urbanite
Since my move to Tennessee besides acclimating to my new job, my life has revolved around ordering items on Amazon Prime, swiping left on Tinder and driving to the local Walmart Supercenter. Tennessee ranks eighth in the nation for the number of Walmart Supercenters. There are 117 Supercenters in Tennessee, about 14 for every-one million […]
Interview with Matt Peterson of Woodbine
What is Woodbine? Woodbine is a common, autonomous, experimental space in Ridgewood, Queens, opened up by a group of friends in the beginning of 2014. The idea behind it was to open up an organizing space in a neighborhood where we ourselves would simultaneously relocate and live. Woodbine has never simply been about […]