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Which Songs Can You Sing to Kids to Prevent Risk of Brain Atrophy (for yourself)?

April 7, 2011

The reason I had to get my nails done this weekend is because I was attending a birthday party for a one-year-old that was full of Russian women waiting to judge me. If a one-year-old does not remember a birthday party, did the party happen?  This is a philosophical question for another day, a day when I need more site traffic from BlogHer. What I’d really like to talk about is the quality of music at children’s birthday parties: Because ...

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How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire, plus Afghanistan

June 14, 2010

Mr. B and I were watching Afghan Star last night, which is about as sad and as inspiring as it sounds.  You should check it out. One of the things we noticed is that, in the beginning of the documentary, about 30 people would crowd around a TV set to watch the competition, like so: And Mr. B said, “I remember my dad telling me how they were one of three families in their town that had a TV and ...

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If you’re interested in if the world economy will ever recover

May 24, 2010

I wrote a piece for work for industry publication American Shipper, which you can read here, under “Trade Forecast 2010″ (requires registration but is free.) I’m pretty proud of it.

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Heavy Metal in Baghdad

March 25, 2010

So, I watched this documentary yesterday and realized I have nothing to complain about in life. You never hear about how real Iraqis, especially educated Iraqis, live, trapped, beyond the headlines.  The closest experience I can think of was living in Tel Aviv during the 2006 war with Lebanon and feeling for two months like the sky was going to come down on me any second.   At night, I couldn’t sleep because every car door slamming below my apartment window ...

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A conversation with my parents about India

March 8, 2010

As part of our continuing world travel plans, Mr. B and I are planning to go to India this spring because we’re bored of Europe (see: Prague) and ready for a little bit of third-world excitement. Little did we know that the excitement would start before we even bought our tickets. This weekend, we were in Philadelphia with my parents and my mother-in-law and the conversation came around to our travel plans. “I don’t like this idea at all,” said ...

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