Author Archives: seeandconnect

Despite the fact that I want to Vassar College, where you might expect that flew a feminist flag and gladly embraced open discussion about what it is to be female and to be feminine, I would have cringed back in the day to have entered a discussio… Continue reading →

I’ve just spent nearly six months living in Mexico (including a few weeks spent visiting Guatemala). I have plenty to write about in relation to that experience and how it has influenced my thinking on social activism. I’m thinking a lot about, fo… Continue reading →

Over the years, I’ve heard the words “It takes a village to raise a child” bandied about by various US political leaders – Hilary Clinton tends to come first to mind when I think of this saying. Yesterday, I was talking to a friend who told a stor… Continue reading →

What do you think of when you light a burner on your stove? If you are in the US, likely nothing – press knob in and turn. That is how the vast majority of stoves work – as far as I know – in the US. Having lived in England for twenty years, I’m f… Continue reading →

This is my first post for 2013. I am writing it in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico having just returned from three weeks in Guatemala. What is in front of my mind is love. I remember back in 2011, a friend introduced me to one of his c… Continue reading →

For some time now, I’ve been inclined to say “I don’t believe in progress.” I think if I were to be more precise, I would say “I don’t believe progress occurs in a linear fashion.” The word progress has its etymology and literal definition in the … Continue reading →

I started a post the other week on the theme of violence. I’m sure I’ll come back to it, but in the meantime, I’ve come back to a recurring theme in my work/life: invisibility. Invisible means unseen. The word invisible is an adjective – and can b… Continue reading →

My first day in San Cristóbal de las Casas, I nearly ended up in the hospital. I was walking down the street – on the sidewalk, struggling to send a text on my newly acquired, very basic (yet somehow repeatedly confounding me) cell phone. All of a… Continue reading →

Wow. So much to write about when it comes to seeing and connecting to self, others and the creative process in different ways. Right now, the theme that is capturing my attention most strongly is values. I have been having numerous discussions thi… Continue reading →

I’m now writing from San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico. This is a colonial town – a base for the Spanish colonists. This is a town surrounded by communities of indigenous peoples. The context of social activism here – indigenous peoples standing up f… Continue reading →