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Light & color: making marks
Posted: July 2, 2014 Filed under: Art & Healing, Child Centered Activities, Chronicles of a First Time Parent, What is an Art Farm 3 CommentsFairy Condos
Posted: May 7, 2014 Filed under: Art & Healing, Child Centered Activities 4 CommentsAdding some pint size (maybe more half-gallon) magic to the property this spring with milk cartons, acrylics, Sharpies, stickers, varnish, sticks and glue gun…
Question Box
Posted: March 3, 2014 Filed under: Art & Healing, Child Centered Activities 8 CommentsThe older I get, the less able I am to multitask. Or, perhaps it's not age but hours of sleep I miss each night (see previous posting :). Either way, after tending to the household tasks, little ones' needs, and work prep, by the end of the day I can only focus on one thing at a time.
It's possible that this is in fact the time of day when my daughter's charming curiousity cuts loose and needs the likes of Google-for-preschoolers to sate her questions: "Why do princesses have so many dresses? How did the creator create the world? Where did I come from?" Truth be told, there have been times I've just had to ask her to stop talking so I can finish the thought in my own head.
Several days ago I vented to our beloved Auntie Beth who, without blinking, offered up the idea of a Question Box – a special place to hold the question until I have time to give her the attention she seeks.
Using cardboard scraps and a glue gun, I constructed a small box with a piggy bank type slot on the top and a flap on the bottom to access the question cards.
Elena decorated the outside of the box with tissue papers and aluminum foil. While the glue dried, she furiously worked on index cards drawing symbols and letters to record her thoughts. Thankfully, collecting her questions in the box will allow me a little time to prepare my responses. "Why did the creator make bananas? Was that before the dinosaurs?" and "How does Peter Pan fly?". I've got some research to do.
Birth Story Revisited
Posted: February 15, 2014 Filed under: Chronicles of a First Time Parent 12 Comments
I am blessed. Let me say it again, I am blessed. I have two beautiful children, an amazing husband, and an overall rich and full life.
I am also sleep deprived. Like, from the last 8 months, sleep deprived.
Ever since we tried transitioning our 14-month old son from co-sleeping in our bed, three out of four of us haven't slept more than 2-3 hours at a time, sometimes up repeatedly for hours during the night. Thankfully our oldest sleeps soundly.
I've read books, talked with moms, spoken to the doctor, vented and cussed and struggled overall with how to help our boy. Pick him up, don't pick him up, let him cry it out, don't over-stress him…And until this week, I now realize, I was looking at the entire problem through the wrong, foggy-eyed lens.
We went to a sleep specialist, who is actually a pediatric nurse practitioner with a holistic philosophy. I find her utterly fascinating. I've known about her for some time, went to her once with our first-born, have friends who use her and am awestruck at how she weaves her understanding of biology and chemistry, perinatal psychology, energy therapies, nutrition and more, all within the family context of what she calls the "heart centered relationship".
Milo wakes up often each night, in a highly agitated state. The specialist stated it was neither comfort seeking nor night terrors. She looked deeper and further back. She asked about his birth story.
Ever since his birth, December 10, 2012, I have looked back with great pride to the water birth, the one hour delivery from the time my water broke and the two pushes that carried him out and up into my arms. It was so fast that his head did not mold.
I never considered what his experience was. Could it be possible that what I considered -from my perspective- a beautiful successful birth was, for Milo, likely traumatic?
According to our specialist, an abrupt transition from the womb into the water was for my baby likely rough and rushed, flooded with adrenaline. She spoke of the cranial nerves which carry the impulses down from the brain and have ties to the nervous system. She mentioned that the presence of adrenaline will diminish the body's natural release of oxytocin, the calming hormone.
Because of the nature of Milo's birth, a pattern was set early for tension, hyper-vigilance, and adrenaline imbalance. This helped explain some of the early behaviors we have observed as well, extreme sensitivity to noise, need to touch my skin while he slept, hyper sensitivity to diaper changes, and a strong desire to be held.
Where do we go from here? We have a list of behavior modifications to try such as earlier bed time, increase melatonin rich foods to help stabilize sleep cycles, massage and joint compression to help him feel comfortable in his body, and more. We were also encouraged to visit an Osteopath who could provide manipulations to assist in calming Milo's nervous system. Paramount here is to pattern behaviors that reassure our young Milo that the world is a safe and secure place.
Being a therapist, and advocate for children it was hard to realize I had overlooked Milo's experience at birth and the ripples it could produce. We all are sensitive beings and our feelings, behaviors and physiology are connected to the experiences we have had. From the perspective of an infant entering the world, it is no different.
Spontaneous Art Making – 101
Posted: January 18, 2014 Filed under: Art & Healing, Child Centered Activities 4 CommentsJust before bed time last night, our daughter was inspired to make her 1 year old brother a pirate boat out of wood. In the basement wood shop she had her first lesson with her dad on using power tools. Furious that there was no time left to paint the boat before going to bed, we urged her to come up with a color plan. We drew a picture of a boat and encouraged her to plan out her colors. Off she went to bed and continued to draw, filling her notebook with countless drawings of pirate boats. Today, she had her first color mixing lesson and finished the boat. A most charming experience to watch.
Sheet Mulch: where the Princess meets permaculture
Posted: January 6, 2014 Filed under: Art & Healing, Permaculture & Home Renovation 4 CommentsThere are three stages to the life cycle of corrugated cardboard: it arrives as a shipping container, becomes an enchanted fairy princess castle, is put to use restoring the soil. Each has its purpose, but the last pays dividends for a long, long time.
During our renovation, new appliances arrived packed in lots of cardboard. I was as excited for the packaging as for the appliances. The cardboard was repurposed quickly, as a fairy princess castle was ordered. I was up to that challenge. Many years back, I transformed, for my Nephew, some boxes into an underwater cave surrounded with schools of fish.
These days my ambitions are less grand and a few cuts with a sharp knife sufficed here. The rest was left to our daughter's imagination. Of which she has plenty.
Eventually that castle became part of the clutter in her room, and I was beginning to plan a large sheet mulch project. I carefully broached the topic that her castle would become a part of the garden. To my relief, she said, "That would be fine, Daddy."
The corrugated cardboard became a key layer of the 12-inch sheet mulch for the 600 sf vegetable garden that we are preparing for next season. We layered the materials in October to allow them to decompose over the winter.
I first learned about sheet mulch from David Homa, of Post Carbon Maine. He is a local maven of permaculture and gave me this list of ingredients: lawn, stone dust, crushed shells, seaweed, leaves, finished compost, newspaper, straw.
Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden, has an excellent discussion of sheet mulch. His material list for "the perfect sheet mulch" is:
- newspaper, corrugated box cardboard without staples or tape. cloth, old clothing, or wool carpet, provided they contain no synthetic fabric, but these take far longer to decay than paper.
- Soil amendments: lime, rock phosphate, bonemeal, rock dust, kelp meal, blood meal, and so on.
- Bulk organic matter: straw, spoiled hay, yard waste, leaves, seaweed, finely ground bark, stable sweepings, wood shavings, or any mixture of these, ideally resulting in an overall C:N ratio of 100/1 to 30/1 about 4 to 8 cubic yards of loosely piled mulch for 100-200 square feet
- Compost, about 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 cubic yard (6 to 12 cubic feet).
- Manure: 1⁄4 to 1 cubic yard,
- A top layer of seed-free material, such as straw, leaves, wood shavings, bark, sawdust, pine needles, grain hulls, nut husks, or seagrass. You will need roughly 1 cubic yard
There is a wealth of information available on the web, including this site with photos showing each step in the process:
My own recipe was based on the materials on hand. My first layer was about three inches of horse manure applied directly on top of the lawn.
I scattered stone dust and then layered the corrugated box cardboard. The cardboard was placed above the manure to create a barrier preventing hayseeds from sprouting. Newspaper was used to fill in the gaps between the pieces of cardboard.
Wood chips were spread thickly on top of the cardboard, and then, for bulk organic matter, we put maple leaves, grass clippings, end-of-season cuttings of comfrey, hosta and other perennials. The brown – carbon – side seemed to be dominant, so to boost the nitrogen side, I mowed my neighbors lawn (with fallen maple leaves) and added that into the mix. My neighbor was thrilled – and a bit incredulous – at my generosity, but I still think I got the better side of that trade.
I would have liked to add seaweed into the mix, but I never found the time to get down to the shore. Our final layer was loam, primarily as a weight to keep the leaves and clippings from blowing during late autumn storms.
I would have liked to top dress everything with a layer of finished compost, but that can wait until spring.
Gone are the days of "double dig" garden beds, and whether the rationale is carbon sequestration or protecting the soil structure, my back definitely was better off for following the sheet mulch approach. We are building the beds directly on top of the existing lawn. I have no idea what our final C:N ratio was but I remain steadfast in my belief that nature is forgiving. We were close enough, and will continue to add layers of rich organic mulch annually.
We have made a big step forward toward our sun-loving vegetable garden.


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The party's over…
Count me as one of those who couldn't decide which was better: To watch the Democrats destroy each other on a daily basis… Or to watch the Clintons finally tuck their political tail between their legs and walk out (dis)gracefully.
Now it's time for John McCain to find himself a good CONSERVATIVE second fiddle so the base can get excited about showing up to vote in November. Just be prepared for all out racial war from here on out… not because we're all racists, but because racist Democrats will try to paint it that way. Every ad, every speech, every comment will be taken as having some racial connotation to it. Just get ready.
Either way, today is a special day. Good riddance, Clintons.
UPDATE: Ok, so even the disconnecting of vital life support systems won't stop her from denying her's is a lost cause. Awesome. Keep fighting and make your exit even more embarrassing… and shred your party in the process. Gotta love the Clintons and their inability to see the world as anything but revolving around them.

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kaising 3/7/2003 21:09 |
I pray to God to bless all His children in this world with good health and happiness. Let them learn how to love and share and be able to show love for the elderly and their parents and loved ones. Its great to see everyone feling happy and healthy. May God answer my humble prayer this day and let the people of the whole world enjoy Your blessings. Amen. |
annaeh 5/4/2003 14:54 |
Lord I know it is the devil who puts fear into the hearts of people of my generation. It is easy to feel that love and devotion take too much work, and to take the easy route of temporary flings and sin. I pray that you would reveal to my peers everywhere the joy and lasting hapiness that comes through sharing every part of yourself with the one person you will become a part of, through marriage. I pray that you would cast the fear off their eyes so that they may see the awesome possibilities that lay before them if only they could believe and discipline themselves to the ways of love. I pray for strength, integrity, love, joy, peace, and enlightenment for these people, in Jesus' name, Amen. |
insatiable_1975 6/20/2003 10:46 |
Father God I pray that all of us here in this troubled world learn to appreciate You and the love You have for us, and by essence learn to love and appreciate themselves and each other. I myself need this prayer as well. I pray for healing of emotional wounds and past hurts inflicted by family, friends and past/present mates. I pray that we all find our soulmates and live our lives abundantly, the way that You and Jesus intended it to be. Father i express my love for you and thank you for being here for me through all of lifes experiences-good and bad. In Jesus' Holy name, Amen. |
starrdusk 7/15/2003 04:06 |
Father heal the hurts of so many of our children who have not seen a "single" comitted relationship, but have watched their own parents fall apart. Give them new hope,and a strong courage to turn the tide towards faithful, true commitment. we trust in you. They are yours. |
tankkitty 8/6/2003 14:17 |
Mother Within and Mother Without, see your children all about. Help your children to begin to let healthy, adult love in. So mote it be. :) |
Lstauduhar 8/11/2003 10:07 |
Dear Lord - guide and bless us adults so that we may better teach, by example, what is commitment and love. Lord, forgive me my divorce 6 years ago and let me be ale to continue to talk with my now 16 year old son, such that he will benefit from my mistakes and still reach for love. Also Lord, please show me your will with Tom, who has lost his first wife to murder and his second to divorce. Help him to overcome his fear and pain... and if it your will that we be together or apart, let it so be. I pray this in your name. |
jaynette 9/8/2003 11:12 |
I pray for marriage. I am divorced. It the laws of men would make it so that divorce takes 5 years instead of one, I would still be married. May that true love come into your heart. When you marriage young, you don't really know what commitment means. When you are divorced, you learn just what it meant and that you gave up marriage for nothing better. |
weirdfish13 11/15/2003 03:44 |
Lord and Lady, you who have spent eternity together, please help all of us to be courageous, wise, and strong when facing matters of love and commitment. We so often get caught up in the little things, or become afraid to do the work that makes a relationship worthwhile. So many people are jumping from new relationship to new relationship without growth or depth of happiness. Families are growing up shattered as a normal state of being. We love You, You love all of us, help us to love each other...please? |
nafriend4life 12/5/2003 20:06 |
GOD says its better to marry than to burn. So I pray that the lord would send down to every young person seeking a mate, whatever the lord has in store for us. |
mom2ericha 4/7/2004 10:43 |
I pray that with God's help, I can rid myself of the fear of commitment. I've suffered in past with a distructive marriage and suffered abuse and I am afraid to commit now. I have met a wonderful man and would love to spend the rest of my life with him, but I am just afraid to give my whole self to him. I pray that God will help us to work this out. I thank God for helping me to become more spiritual, and come "Home" to my church after years of absence. |
venuspider 7/13/2004 11:00 |
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. - Proverbs 3:5-6 |
mountaintop77 8/17/2004 00:11 |
I pray that we all might know love- that there are many of many different ages that do not know love. That you might make us strong and that you will lead us to our spouces and not be afraid of the greatness and safty that comes from having a family. We love you so that we might be able to love others. HELP. JML |
dua1000 1/3/2005 00:07 |
Love is the most wonderul feeling and marriage is the path that leads to our righteous destiny, and in this way, we would be able to live our life to the fullest....may Allah bring happiness to all others and give the true understanding of Love!!! |
tru3love 3/2/2005 11:53 |
I pray that since I have found the love of my life I will not be jealous but understanding and to always remember love covers of multitude of sins. I pray that God changes my heart and the heart of my beloved. I pray for love and joy and the continuance of God's love and grace on my and others lives. I pray that he continues to help me through life's journeys. |
queendaleth1 3/7/2005 23:24 |
GOD, Our Father bless tru3love to know that the only unconditonal love comes from Jesus. If this relationship be your will, allow it to flourish honoring your name. Lord, we as a nation are in great need of salvation. We have no love, we are materlialistic, lustful, murderous...we NEED JESUS. Help us ... restore us. AMEN AND HALLELUJAH |
aj31275 5/16/2005 16:07 |
I have entered a new relationship, and I pray that I may treat him with respect and love in all things every day. If he is meant to be my husband, it will work out. In the meantime, please let us both show each other that we care and help us lift each other up. Relationships are meant to enrich our lives and make us better - let us always remember that. |
MyLord2005 7/22/2005 09:38 |
I do pray for our youth in every situation they face today! They have so much more to deal with now then even 10 years ago. I just ask God to lead the young people, who want His guidance and protection, in the direction of the purpose He has made them for. I interceed,in prayer, for those who don't know the Lord. I interceed for their families who do not know how to show them or teach them the right way of life. As I do with my small children, I cover today's youth with the annointing and protection of God that they will be open and committed to doing and living the way He would have them live. Our youth are in trouble because the enemy has deceived us all. I wage war on the enemy on behalf of our children at any age. We must band together, as believers, and fight together in the name of Jesus! Thank you for this important prayer circle. I love this one because it will benefit my children as well! |
silintli 7/30/2005 18:53 |
I am 19 and want so badly to be married. I pray for myself, and I pray for my friends and family that are unmarried. May eveyone have someone to help them through the worst of times. |
aj31275 8/1/2005 12:24 |
I pray for those who are currently married: Be good to one another and remember to do right by each other. Be loving and kind, and serve as a good example to your children. |
ladysings2 9/23/2005 10:58 |
I can't believe I posted this prayer more than four years ago. A lot has happened in my life in that time. I am still searching for the right person with whom to share my life, and I know that God has someone wonderful in mind for me. I just pray that I am ready for him when he comes, and that I continue to count my blessings in the meantime. When I do meet him, I pray for a beautiful relationship based on trust, love and respect. I also continue to pray for everyone who is seeking a special person in their life. May we all know the joy of love in our lives, and may we all grow spiritually and emotionally through our healthy relationships. |
bequeen 5/1/2006 23:05 |
Father God I ask that You would bless our children and help them to let go of their fear of love and commitment. That You would allow them to love and respect themselves more so that they may share that love with others. Open their hearts and minds to love and commitment and to honer You with marriage in Jesus name I pray Amen |
MidnightsJinx 6/9/2006 02:37 |
May the Maiden bless those who are young with loving families, so they may learn what love is. May Her hands guide them as they experience their first loves, and their first losses. May those under Her care understand that marriage is a solemn promise, to be neither rushed into nor shied away from. |
simplethings18 2/18/2007 20:51 |
I pray that our generation will find love, and care for it. I pray that they will happily marry and be happily married to their soulmates. I pray that we all find the love and happiness we need in our lives. Amen. |
Anni D 1/31/2008 05:59 |
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Fourth in Nashville…
Slick + I spent the 4th of July in Nashville, his old law school stomping grounds, where he tried for four full days to convince me that it is a cooler city than Austin. (It was a losing battle from the beginning, but I humored him + applaud his effort.) While I'm not sure if any city could impress me as much as Austin does each visit, Nashville gave Austin a good run for its money + it was a solid 4th of July road trip.
We stayed in a downtown hotel (which was a converted bank + strategically selected as it was located next door to historic Printer's Alley) with a bunch of Slick's law school buddies. Our hotel was in the middle of all of this:
The first night, we walked down to Broadway St. + had dinner at Jack's Bar-B-Que. I had a pulled chicken salad that was just delightful and it sufficiently helped me to cushion the impressive amount of alcohol I was later to consume.
Our night consisted of four stops on Broadway to hear live music: Legends Corner, Robert's Western World (my fav.), The Stage (Slick's fav.), + Paradise Park Trailer Resort. I had a BLAST – and hitting up these touristy honky-tonks was actually a really great way for me to get a feel for the city.
Broadway reminded me of a tamer 6th Street in Austin with more live music + less drunken debauchery. Everyone was very clean cut and there to hear truly impressive music. I had a lot of fun and strongly recommend checking out each of the four stops we visited.
As far as food was concerned on this trip, the approach we took was to eat stuff that would help us to drink in large quantities and not get sick. This mostly led us to some particularly noteworthy meat + threes. M+Ts are not typically my preference, but I was on board for anything and I certainly did not turn my nose up at them. We FEASTED at Sylvan Park Cafe + Nashville-famous Monell's Restaurant in Germantown. We also had large + very satisfying meals at Sam's Sports Bar & Grill + Bosco's Restaurant & Brewing Co. (both in Hillsboro Village), sushi in The Gulch, + Mafiaoza's Pizzeria in Belmont. All were good, but I definitely recommend checking out Monell's.
Once well-fed, we headed to Tin Roof in Demonbreun where we partied it up + got to see Chris Young take the microphone for a song. THAT was very cool – and exactly what I'd imagined the Nashville experience to be like. Inspired by Mr. Young's vocals, we headed back downtown to Printer's Alley to karaoke it up at Nashville-famous Lonnie's Western Room + Karaoke Bar. We were in and out of Lonnie's for the following three days… Ahhh-mazing.
Here are the boys in action:
Other highlights included walking around the locally-owned stores in Hillsboro Village, having a pool afternoon at a friend's house in Belle Meade, + driving around the Vanderbilt campus to see it through Slick's eyes. We really had an awesome trip.
Even the drive home was gorgeous as we were scream-singing "Proud to be an American!"
I'm still exhausted and desperately need a diet + detox, HOWEVER, I had a blast getting to know Nashville and strongly recommend visiting. Music City is a totally driveable weekend road trip from Atlanta and sure to be a good time. (It's no Austin, but it's much closer + has a whole lot to offer.) Hope everyone had a fun 4th, too!
xx, L
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Burgers by Boat on Lake Lanier
Slick + I spent a gorgeous day at Lake Lanier over Memorial Day weekend with our friends Seth + Loren (SeLo).
Although I have been living in Atlanta for the past seven years + have done a pretty swell job – if I do say so myself – of exploring our great city, I somehow avoided ever spending time at Lake Lanier. My lake trips have been confined to a work-related event I throw each year at Lake Burton – which is a calm + peaceful, relatively uncrowded lake that looks like THIS:
Lake Lanier, however, looks like THIS:
Eighteen boats tied up next to each other to form a massive party on the water! How have I missed this awesomeness?! Shame on me. Shame on me! The fact of the matter is that I HAVE been missing out.
Anyway, as I was saying…we spent a phenomenally beautiful day on Lake Lanier with SeLo. About halfway into our Firefly + diet lemonade drinking, sunscreen-protected sunbathing afternoon, we were pretty hungry and wanted to stop to grab lunch. SeLo highly recommended a restaurant located in Aqualand Marina (a little trivia: AM is the world's largest inland marina) where they had recently eaten the "best burger they've ever had." Slick is kinda on a hamburger kick for some reason + I really needed to check out this "best burger" for myself, so we docked for lunch at Dockside Grill.
Behold its wooden quaintness:
And, freshly-laminated menus:
I started to believe the bold burger rumor a bit more as we sat down + glanced over the menu which proudly announced that Dockside Grill was voted "best burger" by Southern Living. Not quite as skeptical, I ordered a huge burg and out came THIS guy:
The picture doesn't quite do it justice. The burger was MASSIVE + super juicy. I devoured it in every sense of the word. It was, indeed, a great burger. And best of all, it reminded me of the burgers my dad used to grill when I was a kid. It tasted homemade + like home – which may sound silly, but really added to the dockside burger-eatin' experience. It was the perfect way to cut the alcohol, get us out of the sun for a bit + satisfy a burger craving without grease dripping everywhere and a mandatory post-lunch nap.
I ate so much that I felt like I needed to wear my cover up on the boat for the rest of the afternoon, but I didn't mind one bit. That meal was worth it + it certainly didn't stop Slick from enjoying the rest of the day on the lake…
Lake Lanier: I'll be back for you, new friend!
Dockside Grill: Your burger is pretty darn amazing. I can't think of a place I'd rather eat at on the lake. Keep up the excellent work! I'll be back for another burg soon!
xx, L
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Warning: Serious Update OVERLOAD!
Oy. You might need to sit down for this one.
I didn't post for an entire week + now I feel like there's almost too much to update you all on and it's not exactly stringing together clearly… So bear with me, folks. I'm just going to lay it all out there + make of it what you will.
The weather is getting gorgeous, the hemlines are getting shorter + there are more and more reasons to play outside, try new restaurants + spring into summer! (I feel like I just wrote an Old Navy commercial.)
Ready or not – here I go! Wheeeee…..
Ms. Reynolds, Sayako + I recently recruiter summit-ed at Victory Sandwich Bar in Inman Park, which has been all over Urban Spoon, etc., and we really enjoyed it!
Pictured below are our sandwiches, all of which are meant to be eaten in multiples (i.e. you don't order just one sandwich – they are small-ish) at only $4.00 a piece.
We tried the New Bomb Turkey: turkey, arugula, avocado spread + baconaisse; The Hambo: prosciutto, mozzarella, arugula, apple + reduced balsamic; and the Castro: slow-roasted pork, ham, fontina cheese + yellow mustard.
I love this place for a casual lunch and strongly recommend trying it out!
Victory Sandwich Bar
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Next up, Bloomingdale's just started showing some gorgeous turquoise-y blue stone necklaces. So cute for summer! Here's a shot of the one I bought on Monday. It's my new favorite accessory.
Moving right along…
On my Palm Springs/ L.A. flights, I started reading John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces." I will admit that I fall in love with most books I read + can't put them down until they're finished, and that remains the case with this Pulitzer Prize winner. It's so thoughtfully written and a great (albeit very wordy) read. The story of how the book came to fruition after JKT's suicide is super interesting, as well.
Let's talk food trucks.
Slick + I got tacos at Tex's Tacos recently, the new food truck in Buckhead, which urbandaddy.com dubbed the "Antonio Banderas" of food trucks. Cute.
Tex's is a fully-equipped kitchen + restaurant on wheels serving up an array of "Nueva Texicana" eats w/ "style + grace."
While I'll admit that they weren't the best tacos I've ever eaten, they did the job. Tex's will be a goldmine for late night Buckhead frat boys who need to cut through the alcohol a bit before stumbling into bed. And it's not just stationed in Buckhead, which is why food truckin' is so exciting. Check out Tex's schedule here: http://www.texstacos.com/
Speaking of food trucks… When I was in Palm Springs, the Nom Nom truck drove up from L.A. and I got to try it! Not familiar w/ the famous Nom Nom truck?
It's a L.A.-based mobile food truck specializing in Vietnamese food, especially banh mi. Nom Nom was the runner-up in season one of the Food Network's The Great Food Truck Race.
Their food is RIDIC.
On Easter Sunday, Slick + I had a date night at Ecco, one of my favorite Midtown restaurants to order up a load of small plates + drinks. (Also, to potentially spot the Vampire Diaries cast…)
As usual, our meal was predictably delicious. To accompany it, I ordered a glass of pinot gris. Slick, however, ordered one of the most interesting cocktails I've ever seen. Here's the description of it from the menu:
ZAFARAN: Gabriel Boudier Saffron Gin, housemade Shindeldecker tonic + a custom icy hot cube will remind you that, while temptation is a reality, there are repercussions in all things we do.
It was so different and had a very special, unique flavor. You guys have to try it!
I've said it once, I'll say it again. I'm obsessed with mochi ice cream. Recently, I've been satisfying my sweet tooth with an all natural strawberry flavor found at Trader Joe's. Um, yum!
Y'all, today is Thursday which means…
So, back to food trucks + street food. Can we? Thanks.
My favorite Midtown Street Food Thursday vendor is definitely The King of Pops!
I get so excited when I see the Pops cart! And you know who else does…
He LOVES KoPs! Our favorite flavors are: Mexican Chocolate, Banana Pudding, Sea Salt Chocolate + Pineapple Ginger. You must, must try a pop!
It really is perfect popsicle weather, too. Speaking of perfect weather, I had it in California. The entire week was truly gorgeous! Although the main purpose of my trip was to meet Mrs. Wolkove's adorable new addition to her family, I did have time to enjoy the outdoors when I went on a hike at Fryman Canyon Park located in the Santa Monica Mountains with Mrs. W's madre. The views were amazing + the workout was seriously intense. I work out quite a bit in Atlanta, but I almost never go hiking. I have to say that my legs were throbbing the morning after our hike. If anyone knows of good hiking spots in Atlanta, please let me know.
Even while hiking in the heat, my hair looked pretty perfect. (OMG, what a bragger!) But, I have to credit that to Daniel Carter at Mint Salon who does my 2-day keratin treatments. (LK goes to Mint, too, for hers.) Daniel is a fantastic stylists who has also started to do my cuts + color. If you happen to be looking for a new stylist, I highly recommend Daniel! Tell him you heard about him on the Q+DD!
Mint Salon
Stylist: Daniel Carter
Since we're focusing now on "maintenance," I'm really looking forward to my spray tan today at RAW Organic Bronzing Studio. (LK is a fan, too!) I adore the owner, Tiffany Terranova, and have been very pleased with my tans! They are made from 100% organic ingredients that are actually beneficial to the skin. Read more about RAW Organic Bronzing Studio here: LK's post about RAW.
And, RAW is conveniently located right next door to Victory Sandwich Bar in Inman Park! Bringing it all together.
Skipping around skipping around…
I'm in the market for a french press. I drank french pressed coffee several times during my L.A. trip + don't think I can go back to my Keurig any more. It's like two entirely different planets of coffee! This Bodum one is pretty cute. (Hint, hint.)
OH! And isn't this the most precious picture you've ever seen or what?! Mrs. Wolkove, her one week old (who obv. cannot fit into those yet) + I all rock the glitter TOMS! Love.
We'll focus on this much more as it draws closer, but who's pumped for the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival?!
THIS event is going to be nothing short of incredible. Can't wait!
More info here: Atlanta Food & Wine Festival
And finally (have I worn you out yet?), the Q+DD has some very special news to share! One of our best readers, Jessica Gorman: Concierge at the Ritz Carlton – Buckhead, was featured in the newest edition of The Atlantan Magazine!
Click here to see the article mentioning Jess on page 36 of the new issue today! (Reading Instructions for the Online Version: Click on the link mentioned in the previous sentence. Type in page 36. Full screen view + click magnifying glass to zoom in. Silly technology…) We are very proud of you, Jess!
So…did you get all that?! It was pretty beastly. (TWHS? Sorry, mom…)
There WILL be a quiz later. It's great to be back!
xx, L
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The Replacement.
Hi! Hello.
I'm back from California + I'm happy to report that my week was pretty blissful.
It wasn't too shabby to wake up to THAT every morning, I have to admit…
Constant sunshine + dry heat weren't too hard to deal with either. I'm going to brag: my hair looked amazing.
Anyway, prior to my departure I had a bit of an issue to handle. Merely days after professing my love for my iPhone to the world, it was taken from me. Stolen! Just like that.
I filed a police report + am now in like Flynn w/ the hard working folks at Midtown Blue. (And, God bless 'em!) I worked with my insurance company – PSA: if your iPhone is not currently insured, insure it today! – to recoup $$$ to purchase a replacement phone. While in CA, my check arrived in the mail + yesterday during lunch I ran to the Apple store in Lenox Mall to grab a new one.
I got the pearly white iPhone 4. Please behold its beauty:
(Which you are likely to only see here b/c I have since covered it with a supa-flashy neon orange + pink Kate Spade cover.) What did you expect? Really.
It's new – they just got it in last week. It's bright, loud + slightly obnoxious. So, it's perfect. (And, they discontinued my old, relatively-understated case…) A colleague referred to it as a "sherbet lego." I loved that.
I am hoping to have better luck with this iPhone. I plan to treat it with the deepest respect + not leave it sitting out on a table at The Warren so that it could easily get swiped again. iPhone, I've changed. You'll see.
xx, L
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California Vacay Hiatus…
Today, I am headed to Palm Springs + L.A. for an entire week! Can't. even. WAIT.
The weather is supposed to be between 65 – 90 degrees + sunny every day I'm there, so my over-sized suitcase is bursting at the seams w/ new sundresses and espadrilles! (If I don't come back w/ a golden tan…something went terribly wrong.) AND…best of all, I can't wait to see Mrs. Wolkove + meet the newest addition to her family, her baby girl – Sadie Rae!
I'll catch you all next Tuesday. Have an awesome week!
xx, L
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Organization that is not part of any government. A key distinction is between not-for-profit groups and for-profit corporations; the vast majority of NGOs are not-for-profit. In some countries, particularly socialist ones, some NGOs are government-organized. The purposes of NGOs cover the entire range of human interests and may be domestic or international in scope. Many NGOs are key sources of information for governments on issues such as human rights abuses and environmental degradation. Some NGOs fulfill quasi-governmental functions for ethnic groups that lack a state of their own. NGOs may be financed by private donations, international organizations, governments, or a combination of these. In Britain, quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organizations, or "quangos," are organizations that have nonelected boards and receive public funds which they also disburse. Seealso Amnesty International; Greenpeace; World Wildlife Fund.
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Institution drawing membership from at least three states, having activities in several states, and whose members are held together by a formal agreement. Only a few existed before 1850; several thousand were active in the early 21st century. Some are intergovernmental (e.g., the United Nations), and some are nongovernmental (e.g., Amnesty International). Some have multiple worldwide or regional purposes (e.g., the European Union), and some have single purposes (e.g., the World Intellectual Property Organization). One effect of their proliferation is a stronger sense of interdependence among states, which in turn has stimulated recognition of the need for cooperation to address international and global problems.
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Public or private organization providing comprehensive medical care to subscribers on the basis of a prepaid contract. HMOs deliver a broad range of health services for a fixed fee. In the prepaid group-practice model, physicians are organized into a group practice with one insuring agency. A medical care foundation, or individual practice association, usually involves multiple insurance companies and reimburses members of a loose network of individual physicians from subscribers' prepaid fees. Originally viewed as a way to control health-care costs and meet increased demand for health services, HMOs have become controversial because some limit care by refusing to pay for tests or treatment against their own doctors' advice.
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International organization based in Geneva that supervises world trade. It was created in 1995 to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Like its predecessor, it aims to lower trade barriers and encourage multilateral trade. It monitors members' adherence to GATT agreements and negotiates and implements new agreements. Critics of the WTO, including many opponents of economic globalization, have charged that it undermines national sovereignty by promoting the interests of large multinational corporations and that the trade liberalization it encourages leads to environmental damage and declining living standards for low-skilled workers in developing countries. By the early 21st century, the WTO had more than 145 members.
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Public-health agency of the UN, established in Geneva in 1948 to succeed two earlier agencies. Its mandate is to promote "the highest possible level of health" in all peoples. Its work falls into three categories. It provides a clearinghouse for information on the latest developments in disease and health care and establishes international sanitary standards and quarantine measures. It sponsors measures for the control of epidemic and endemic disease (including immunization campaigns and assistance in providing sources of pure water). Finally, it encourages the strengthening of public-health programs in member nations. Its greatest success to date has been the worldwide eradication of smallpox (1980).
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Regional defense organization (1955–77) comprising Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Britain, and the U.S. It was founded as part of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty in order to protect the region from communism. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos were not considered for membership, and other countries in the region preferred membership in the nonaligned movement. SEATO had no standing forces, but its members engaged in combined military exercises. Pakistan withdrew in 1968, and France suspended financial support in 1975. The organization was disbanded officially in 1977.
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Umbrella political organization representing the Palestinian people in their drive for a Palestinian state. It was formed in 1964 to centralize the leadership of various groups. After the Six-Day War of 1967, the PLO promoted a distinctively Palestinian agenda. In 1969
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International organization formed in 1948 to replace the Pan-American Union. It promotes economic, military, and cultural cooperation among its members, which include almost all the independent states of the Western Hemisphere. (Cuba's membership was suspended in 1962.) The OAS's main goals are to maintain peace in the Western Hemisphere and to prevent intervention in the region by any outside state. Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, the OAS has more actively encouraged democratic government in member states, in part by organizing missions to observe and monitor elections. Seealso Alliance for Progress; Inter-American Development Bank.
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International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. A 1948 collective-defense alliance between Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg was recognized as inadequate to deter Soviet aggression, and in 1949 the U.S. and Canada agreed to join their European allies in an enlarged alliance. A centralized administrative structure was set up, and three major commands were established, focused on Europe, the Atlantic, and the English Channel (disbanded in 1994). The admission of West Germany in 1955 led to the Soviet Union's creation of the opposing Warsaw Treaty Organization, or Warsaw Pact. France withdrew from military participation in 1966. Since NATO ground forces were smaller than those of the Warsaw Pact, the balance of power was maintained by superior weaponry, including intermediate-range nuclear weapons. After the Warsaw Pact's dissolution and the end of the Cold War in 1991, NATO withdrew its nuclear weapons and attempted to transform its mission. It involved itself in the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty stated that an attack on one signatory would be regarded as an attack on the rest. This article was first invoked in 2001 in response to the terrorist September 11 attacks against the U.S. Additional countries joined NATO in 1999 and 2004 to bring the number of full members to 26. In 2009 France announced its plan to rejoin NATO's integrated military command.
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U.S. women's rights organization. It was founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan to promote equal rights for women, particularly in the area of employment. With some 500,000 members (both women and men) and 550 chapters, it addresses, through lobbying and litigation, issues such as child care, pregnancy leave, and abortion and pension rights. In the 1970s its major concern was passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, though the amendment failed in 1982. NOW has been more successful at the state level, where it has lobbied for state equal rights amendments and comparable-worth (equal pay for equal work) legislation.
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Temporary specialized agency of the United Nations system (1946–52). The IRO assisted refugees and displaced persons in Europe and Asia who could not or would not return home after World War II. Taking over the work of its principal predecessor, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, it also assumed responsibility for the legal protection and resettlement of refugees previously carried out by the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. It was succeeded by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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International organization whose purpose is to fight international crime. Interpol promotes the widest possible mutual assistance between the criminal police authorities of affiliated countries and seeks to establish and develop all institutions likely to contribute effectively to the prevention and suppression of ordinary crime. The organization traces its history to 1914, when a congress of international criminal police, attended by delegates from 14 countries, was held in Monaco. Interpol was formally founded in Austria in 1923 with 20 member countries; after World War II its headquarters moved to Paris and, in 1989, to Lyon, France. By the early 21st century, its membership exceeded 180 countries. Interpol pursues criminals who operate in more than one country (e.g., smugglers), those who stay in one country but whose crimes affect other countries (e.g., counterfeiters of foreign currency), and those who commit a crime in one country and flee to another.
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UN agency whose purpose is to improve nutrition and eliminate hunger by coordinating the efforts of governments in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. It also assists countries through research, training, development, and field missions, and it has helped with disaster and emergency relief. The FAO was established in 1945. Beginning in the 1960s, it concentrated on developing high-yield grain, eliminating protein deficiencies, supporting rural development, and encouraging agricultural exports. In the 1980s and '90s, the FAO emphasized strategies for sustainable agriculture and rural development that were economically feasible, environmentally sound, and technologically appropriate to the skill level of the host country. The organization, which has more than 180 members, is governed by the biennial FAO conference, in which each member country, as well as the European Union, is represented. Its headquarters are in Rome. Seealso World Food Programme.
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International scientific organization established for collaborative research into subnuclear physics. Headquartered in Geneva, CERN includes extensive facilities at sites on both sides of the Swiss-French border. The results of its experimental and theoretical work are made generally available. It was established in part in order to reclaim European physicists who had emigrated to the U.S. as a result of World War II. In 2000 it had 20 European member nations and several nations with observer status.
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Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was an American radical left organization founded in 1969 by leaders and members who split from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) (or claimed to be the actual SDS).
The group is most famous for a campaign consisting of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots, from 1969 through the middle 1970s. The "Days of Rage", the group's first public demonstration on October 8, 1969, was a riot in Chicago coordinated with the trial of the Chicago Eight. In 1970 the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, under the name "Weather Underground Organization" (WUO). The bombing attacks were mostly against government buildings, along with several banks. Most were preceded by communiqués that provided evacuation warnings, along with statements of the particular matter to which their attacks were allegedly responding. For the bombing of the United States Capitol on March 1, 1971, they issued a statement saying it was "in protest of the US invasion of Laos." For the bombing of The Pentagon on May 19, 1972, they stated it was "in retaliation for the US bombing raid in Hanoi." For the January 29, 1975 bombing of the Harry S Truman Building housing the United States Department of State, they stated it was "in response to escalation in Vietnam."
The Weathermen grew out of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting off to pursue a more radical agenda. It took its name from the lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," from the Bob Dylan song Subterranean Homesick Blues. They also used this lyric as the title of a position paper they distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18, 1969. The founding document called for a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other radical movements to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and achieve a classless world: world communism."
They largely disintegrated shortly after the US reached a peace accord in Vietnam in 1973 , which saw the general decline of the New Left.
The group emerged from the campus-based opposition to the Vietnam War, as well as the Civil Rights Movements of the late 1960s. During this time, United States military action in Southeast Asia, especially in Vietnam, escalated. In the U.S., the anti-war sentiment was particularly pronounced during the 1968 U.S. presidential election.
The origins of the Weathermen can be traced to the collapse and fragmentation of the Students for a Democratic Society. The split between the mainstream leadership of SDS, or "National Office," and the Progressive Labor Party pushed SDS as a whole further to the left. National Office leaders such as Bernardine Dohrn and Mike Klonsky began announcing their emerging perspectives, and Klonksy published a document entitled "Toward a Revolutionary Youth Movement" (RYM). RYM promoted the philosophy that young workers possessed the potential to be a revolutionary force to overthrow capitalism, if not by themselves then by transmitting radical ideas to the working class. Klonsky's document reflected the growing leftist philosophy of the National Office and was eventually adopted as official SDS doctrine. During the Summer of 1969, the National Office began to split. A group led by Klonsky became known as RYM II, and the other side, RYM I, was led by Dohrn and endorsed more aggressive tactics, as some members felt that years of non-violent resistance had done little or nothing to stop the Vietnam War. It was also during this time period that the Weathermen sympathized with the radical group Black Panthers. The death of Panther Fred Hampton prompted the Weatherman to issue a declaration of war upon the United States government.
After the summer of 1969 fragmentation of Students for a Democratic Society, Weatherman's adherents explicitly claimed themselves the real leaders of SDS and retained control of the SDS National Office. Thereafter, any leaflet, label, or logo bearing the name "Students for a Democratic Society" or "SDS" was in fact the views and politics of Weatherman, and not of SDS as a whole. Weatherman contained the vast majority of former SDS National Committee members, including Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Bernadine Dohrn. For this reason, the group, while small, was able to easily commandeer the mantle of SDS and all of its membership lists. For a brief time, affiliations with regional SDS cadre were maintained from the National Office, but with Weatherman in charge the relationships did not last long, and local chapters soon disbanded. By February 1970, the group had decided to close the SDS National Office, concluding the major campus-based organization of the 1960s.
The Weatherman group had long held that militancy was becoming more important than nonviolent forms of anti-war action, and that university-campus-based demonstrations needed to be punctuated with more dramatic actions, which had the potential to interfere with the U.S. military and internal security apparatus. The belief was that these types of urban guerrilla actions would act as a catalyst for the coming revolution. Many international events indeed seemed to support the Weathermen's overall assertion that worldwide revolution was imminent, such as the tumultuous Cultural Revolution in China; the 1968 student revolts in France, Mexico City and elsewhere; the Prague Spring; the emergence of the Tupamaros organization in Uruguay; the emergence of the Guinea-Bissauan Revolution and similar Marxist-led independence movements throughout Africa; and within the United States, the prominence of the Black Panther Party together with a series of "ghetto rebellions" throughout poor black neighborhoods across the country.
The Weathermen were outspoken advocates of the critical concepts that later came to be known as "white privilege" and identity politics. As the unrest in poor black neighborhoods intensified in the early 1970s, Bernardine Dohrn said, "White youth must choose sides now. They must either fight on the side of the oppressed, or be on the side of the oppressor."
One of the first acts of the Weathermen after splitting from SDS was to announce they would hold the "Days of Rage" that autumn. This was advertised to "Bring the war home!" Hoping to cause sufficient chaos to "wake" the American public out of what they saw as complacency toward the role of the US in the Vietnam War, the Weathermen meant it to be the largest protest of the decade. They had been told by their regional cadre to expect thousands to attend; however, when they arrived they found only a few hundred people. According to Bill Ayers, "The Days of Rage was an attempt to break from the norms of kind of acceptable theatre of 'here are the anti-war people: containable, marginal, predictable, and here's the little path they're going to march down, and here's where they can make their little statement.' We wanted to say, "No, what we're going to do is whatever we had to do to stop the violence in Vietnam.'"
Shortly before the demonstrations, they blew up a statue in Chicago built to commemorate police casualties incurred in the 1886 Haymarket Riot. The blast broke nearly 100 windows and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below. The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, only to be blown up by the Weathermen a second time on October 6, 1970. The statue was rebuilt once again and Mayor Richard J. Daley posted a 24-hour police guard to protect it.
Though the October 8, 1969 rally in Chicago had failed to draw as many as the Weathermen had anticipated, the two or three hundred who did attend shocked police by rioting through the affluent Gold Coast neighborhood. They smashed the windows of a bank and those of many cars. The crowd ran four blocks before encountering police barricades. They charged the police but broke into small groups; more than 1,000 police counter-attacked. Many protesters were wearing motorcycle or football helmets, but the police were well trained and armed. Large amounts of tear gas were used, and at least twice police ran squad cars into the mob. The rioting lasted approximately half an hour, during which 28 policemen were injured (none seriously). Six Weathermen were shot by the police and an unknown number injured; 68 rioters were arrested.
For the next two days, the Weatherman held no rallies or protests. Supporters of the RYM II movement, led by Klonsky and Noel Ignatin, held peaceful rallies in front of the federal courthouse, an International Harvester factory, and Cook County Hospital. The largest event of the Days of Rage took place on Friday, October 9, when RYM II led an interracial march of 2,000 people through a Spanish-speaking part of Chicago.
On October 10, the Weatherman attempted to regroup and resume their demonstrations. About 300 protesters marched through The Loop, Chicago's main business district, watched by a double-line of heavily armed police. The protesters suddenly broke through the police lines and rampaged through the Loop, smashing the windows of cars and stores. The police were prepared, and quickly isolated the rioters. Within 15 minutes, more than half the crowd had been arrested.
The Days of Rage cost Chicago and the state of Illinois approximately $183,000 ($100,000 for National Guard expenses, $35,000 in damages, and $20,000 for one injured citizen's medical expenses). Most of the Weathermen and SDS leaders were now in jail, and the Weathermen would have to pay over $243,000 to pay for their bail.
In December 1969, the Chicago Police Department, in conjunction with the FBI, conducted a raid on the home of Black Panther Fred Hampton, in which he and Mark Clark were killed, with four of the seven other people in the apartment wounded. The survivors of the raid were all charged with assault and attempted murder. The police claimed they shot in self-defense, although a controversy arose when the Panthers and other activists presented what was alleged to be evidence suggesting that the sleeping Panthers were not resisting arrest. The charges were later dropped, and the families of the dead won a $1.8 million settlement from the government. It was discovered in 1971 that Hampton had been targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO.
In 1970 the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, using for the first time its new name, the "Weather Underground Organization" (WUO), adopting fake identities, and pursuing covert activities only. These initially included preparations for a bombing of a U.S. military non-commissioned officers' dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey in what Brian Flanagan said had been intended to be "the most horrific hit the United States government had ever suffered on its territory".
The group was investigated for a bombing that took place on February 16, 1970, in which a pipe bomb filled with shrapnel detonated on the ledge of a window at the Park Station of the San Francisco Police Department. Brian V. McDonnell, a police sergeant, was fatally wounded in the explosion, and Robert Fogarty, another police officer, was severely wounded in his face and legs and was partially blinded. The Weathermen, along with the Black Panther Party were initially investigated for the murder, which was never solved. An investigation was reopened in 1999, and a San Francisco grand jury looked into the incident, but no indictments followed.
The bomb preparations have been pointed out by critics of the claim that the Weatherman group did not try to take lives with its bombings. Harvey Klehr, the Andrew W. Mellon professor of politics and history at Emory University in Atlanta, said in 2003, "The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence. I don't know what sort of defense that is."
They wanted to convince the American public that the United States was truly responsible for the calamity in Vietnam. The group began striking at night, bombing empty offices, with warnings always issued in advance to ensure a safe evacuation. According to David Gilbert, "[their] goal was to not hurt any people, and a lot of work went into that. But we wanted to pick targets that showed to the public who was responsible for what was really going on." After the Greenwich Village explosion, no one was killed by WUO bombs.
On May 21, 1970, a communiqué from the Weather Underground was issued promising to attack a "symbol or institution of American injustice" within two weeks. The communiqué included taunts towards the FBI, daring them to try and find the group, whose members were spread throughout the United States. Many leftist organizations showed curiosity in the communiqué, and waited to see if the act would in fact occur. However, two weeks would pass without any occurrence. Then on June 9, 1970, their first publicly acknowledged bombing occurred at a New York City police station, saying it was "in outraged response to the assassination of the Soledad Brother George Jackson," who had recently been killed by prison guards in an escape attempt. The FBI placed the Weather Underground organization on the ten most-wanted list by the end of 1970. On May 19, 1972, Ho Chi Minh's birthday, The Weather Underground placed a bomb in the women's bathroom in the Air Force wing of The Pentagon. The damage caused flooding that devastated classified information on computer tapes. Leftist groups worldwide applauded the bombing, illustrated by German youth protesting against American military systems in Frankfurt.
In April 1971, The "Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI" broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. The group stole files with several hundred pages, 98% of the files targeted left wing individuals and groups. By the end of April, the FBI offices were to terminate all files dealing with leftist groups. The files were a part of an FBI program called COINTELPRO. However, after COINTELPRO was dissolved in 1971 by J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI continued its counterintelligence on groups like the Weather Underground. In 1973, the FBI established the 'Special Target Information Development' program, where agents were sent undercover to penetrate the Weather Underground. Due to the illegal tactics of FBI agents involved with the program, government attorneys requested all weapons- and bomb-related charges be dropped against the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground was no longer a fugitive organization and could turn themselves in with minimal charges against them.
After the Church Committee revealed the FBI's illegal activities, many agents were investigated. In 1976, former FBI Associate Director W. Mark Felt publicly stated he had ordered break-ins and that individual agents were merely obeying orders and should not be punished for it. Felt also stated that acting Director L. Patrick Gray had also authorized the break-ins, but Gray denied this. Felt said on the CBS television program Face the Nation that he would probably be a "scapegoat" for the Bureau's work. "I think this is justified and I'd do it again tomorrow", he said on the program. While admitting the break-ins were "extralegal", he justified it as protecting the "greater good". Felt said:
To not take action against these people and know of a bombing in advance would simply be to stick your fingers in your ears and protect your eardrums when the explosion went off and then start the investigation.The Attorney General in the new Carter administration, Griffin B. Bell, investigated, and on April 10, 1978, a federal grand jury charged Felt, Miller and Gray with conspiracy to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens by searching their homes without warrants, though Gray's case did not go to trial and was dropped by the government for lack of evidence on December 11, 1980.
The indictment charged violations of Title 18, Section 241 of the United States Code. The indictment charged Felt and the others
did unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other to injure and oppress citizens of the United States who were relatives and acquaintances of the Weatherman fugitives, in the free exercise and enjoyments of certain rights and privileges secured to them by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America.
Felt and Miller attempted to plea bargain with the government, willing to agree to a misdemeanor guilty plea to conducting searches without warrants—a violation of 18 U.S.C. sec. 2236—but the government rejected the offer in 1979. After eight postponements, the case against Felt and Miller went to trial in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on September 18, 1980. On October 29, former President Richard M. Nixon appeared as a rebuttal witness for the defense, and testified that presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt had authorized the bureau to engage in break-ins while conducting foreign intelligence and counterespionage investigations. It was Nixon's first courtroom appearance since his resignation in 1974. Nixon also contributed money to Felt's legal defense fund, Felt's expenses running over $600,000. Also testifying were former Attorneys General Herbert Brownell, Jr., Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Ramsey Clark, John N. Mitchell, and Richard G. Kleindienst, all of whom said warrantless searches in national security matters were commonplace and not understood to be illegal, but Mitchell and Kleindienst denied they had authorized any of the break-ins at issue in the trial.
The jury returned guilty verdicts on November 6, 1980. Although the charge carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, Felt was fined $5,000. (Miller was fined $3,500). Writing in The New York Times a week after the conviction, Roy Cohn claimed that Felt and Miller were being used as scapegoats by the Carter administration and that it was an unfair prosecution. Cohn wrote it was the "final dirty trick" and that there had been no "personal motive" to their actions. The Times saluted the convictions, saying that it showed "the case has established that zeal is no excuse for violating the Constitution". Felt and Miller appealed the verdict, and they were later pardoned by Ronald Reagan.
Despite the change in their status the Weather Underground remained underground for a few more years. However, by 1976 the organization was disintegrating. The Weather Underground held a conference in Chicago called Hard Times. The idea was to create an umbrella organization for all radical groups. However, the event turned sour when Hispanic and Black groups accused the Weather Underground and the Prairie Fire Committee of limiting their roles in racial issues. The conference enhanced a division within the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground faced accusations of abandonment of the revolution by reversing their original ideology.
East coast members favored a commitment to violence and challenged commitments of old leaders, Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones. By the end of 1976, the Weather Underground would collapse. Within two years, many members turned themselves in after taking advantage of President Gerald Ford's amnesty for draft dodgers.
Mark Rudd turned himself in to authorities on January 20, 1978. Rudd was fined $4,000 and received two years probation. Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers turned themselves in on December 3, 1980, in New York, with substantial media coverage. Charges were dropped for Ayers. Dohrn received three years probation and a $15,000 fine.
Certain members remained underground and joined other radical groups. Years after the dissolution of the WUO, former members Kathy Boudin, Judith Alice Clark, and David Gilbert formed the May 19 Communist Organization, which eventually joined with the Black Liberation Army. On October 20, 1981, in Nyack New York, the group robbed a Brinks armored truck containing $1.6 million. The robbery turned violent, resulting in the murders of two police officers and a security guard. Boudin, Clark, and Gilbert were found guilty and sentenced to lengthy terms in prison, considered the "last gasps" of the Weather Underground.
Widely-known members of the Weather Underground include Kathy Boudin, Mark Rudd, Terry Robbins, Ted Gold, Naomi Jaffe, Cathy Wilkerson, Jeff Jones, David Gilbert, Susan Stern, Bob Tomashevsky, Sam Karp, Russell Neufeld, Joe Kelly, Laura Whitehorn and the still-married couple Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. Most former Weathermen have successfully re-integrated into mainstream society, without necessarily repudiating their original intent.
Weatherman was referred to by some in its own time and afterwards as "terrorist". The group fell under the auspicies of FBI-New York City Police Anti Terrorist Task Force, a forerunner of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces. The FBI, on its website, describes organization as having been a "domestic terrorist group", but no longer an active concern. Others either dispute or clarify the categorization, or justify the group's violence as an appropriate response to the Vietnam war. In his 2001 book about his Weatherman experiences, Bill Ayers stated his objection to describing the WUO (Weather Underground Organization) as "terrorist". Ayers wrote: "Terrorists terrorize, they kill innocent civilians, while we organized and agitated. Terrorists destroy randomly, while our actions bore, we hoped, the precise stamp of a cut diamond. Terrorists intimidate, while we aimed only to educate. No, we're not terrorists. Dan Berger, in his book about the Weatherman, Outlaws in America, comments that the group "purposefully and successfully avoided injuring anyone... Its war against property by definition means that the WUO was not a terrorist organization."
Bill Ayers, now a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was quoted in an interview to say "I don't regret setting bombs but has since claimed he was misquoted. Brian Flanagan has expressed regret for his actions during the Weatherman years, and compared the group's activities to terrorism. Flanagan said: "When you feel that you have right on your side, you can do some pretty horrific things. Mark Rudd, now a teacher of mathematics at Central New Mexico Community College, has said he has "mixed feelings" and feelings of "guilt and shame".
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Note: In honor of Opening Day & my not-so-little-boy's birthday today, I am reprising this post. As much as I would love to be at Nationals Park watching President Obama throw out the first pitch, I am instead taking Gatorade to his 30 classmates. Woot!
Baseball's Opening Day holds a special sentimental place in my heart.
My son was born on Opening Day.
A year later, my daddy died on Opening Day.
I'm not sure why I mark these events by the opening of the baseball season, but for some reason I do.
I'm not exactly sure why or how my attachment to Opening Day started. It's not that I have memories of growing up and going out to the ballpark. I grew up in a city without a MLB baseball team. We didn't even have a decent minor league team. In New Orleans, we loosely followed the Astros, the Braves, or in my case, the St. Louis Cardinals.
No, I think it must have started once I was a grown-up (hah!) and moved to DC/MD. As an Orioles fan, I had Cal's streak to root for and Johnny Miller's most-awesomest voice on the radio. I spent many evenings driving home up Rock Creek Parkway with the top down (when I was cool, before kids, and had a convertible) listening to the O's broadcast as a way to wind down and leave work behind.
Books have been written about the rituals and tradition of baseball. I won't try to replicate them or make this Field of Dreams. But, opening day games used to be a big deal. They were played in the afternoon and were special. There is nothing quite comparable to playing hooky from the office to spend the afternoon at the ballpark sitting in the sunshine.
It makes me more than a little sad that Opening Day isn't such a big deal anymore. Blame it on the media, blame it on moving Opening Day to Sunday night, blame it on President Obama. Who knows why? But it is.
Still, it's a big deal to me. Ten years ago in April, which was also Easter Sunday, I went into labor with my son. My second child, I expected him to come quickly after my water broke, but he decided to take his time. I went to the hospital overnight; they said it was too soon for an epidural but they gave me drugs to "take the edge off" (please no chastising from the peanut gallery – it is what it is).
All I know is that one minute I was watching SportsCenter, the next minute I was hallucinating. I slept a little, watched more SportsCenter, slept a little more through contractions.
The day after he was born, I was still in the post-partum fog and remember watching a seemingly endless O's game. Doze, nurse, watch baseball, change diaper. Repeat.
The kid, who was named after my Dad, and I watched a lot of baseball those first few weeks. Oh, and the coverage of Columbine (but that's a different story).
the kid - about 18 months old
A year later, on a Thursday evening, I got a call from my Mom that my Dad had had a heart attack. The doctors were still running tests and she said I didn't need to fly in until they knew more. The next morning, my sisters called and said, basically, "…get your ass down here."
Daddy had had a quadruple by-pass ten years earlier and a stent and angioplasty in the meantime. It didn't look good.
We spent the weekend with him in the ICU. We listened to LSU basketball on the radio and watched the NCAA tournament on TV. He was alert, but in pain and seemed to enjoy having us with him. The doctors were still running tests and were noncommittal about his status. A nurse warned my sister and me that the prognosis might not be good.
On Sunday evening, my sister and I said good-bye and planned to fly home to our respective cities Monday morning. We would be back in a couple of weeks for Easter. Daddy passed away overnight; my Mom was with him.
Daddy on his boat - as a much younger man
I don't remember much, but I remember that it was Opening Day that day.
I remember, too, holding it together to go to the Funeral Home with my Mom and sisters to make arrangements. I remember losing it shortly thereafter and being pissed at God, at myself, saying through my tears, this is why Jews don't name their babies after people who are alive. My mom, bless her heart, responded that Daddy was honored that my son had been named after him.
I found out later that that doesn't hold true in all Jewish traditions, but still there is that little bit of doubt that somehow I put the gris-gris on him.
Two days later, we buried my dad on my son's first birthday. It was necessary at the time, but it still stings.
I try to remember the good things and be thankful that at least he got to meet him. I try to look at the big picture and consider the circle of life and all that. I'm grateful that Daddy didn't have to live through Katrina and see his house destroyed.
My family and friends have suffered a lot of loss these last ten years. But, we've also had a lot of joy – new babies, weddings & new family members to welcome in, birthday parties, Mardi Gras, JazzFest, and the rebuilding of the city.
Perhaps Opening Day serves as my reminder that for everything, there is a season.
Come on, we can be corny now, you know the words…
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time for every purpose under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
- The Byrds
Rita - no worries. thanks for visiting - it's kind of a perfect baseball day, isn't it?
Lainey - thanks. I haven't managed to transfer my love of baseball to him yet, but still working on it. And, yeah, that precious little boy is playing football this fall with 11-12 year olds. oh my, how time flies!
Happy baseball season to you.
I'm stopping by here to tell you I sent you a PM, and I don't know if you will get notification of that. I recommending a novel I just read. It takes place in NO and is really worth looking into. It's called: One D.O.A., One on the Way, by mary Robison.
Since I was visiting anyway, I just read this post. Sometimes it is tough, the way things fall. You have a beautiful son, and I am sure your dad was/is delighted to have him bear his name.


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Widener Law is pleased to announce it has received a $500,000 gift that will endow an annual scholarship and award in corporate law.
The gift from Prickett, Jones & Elliott P.A. will create the William Prickett Corporate & Business Law Scholarship Fund. It will provide up to a year's tuition annually for one highly qualified law student who has demonstrated academic excellence in both corporate law and civil procedure. It will also provide an annual graduation prize for outstanding achievement in corporate law to a graduate who is preparing to take the Delaware Bar.
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The gift honors William Prickett Jr., grandson of the firm's founder and the third member of the family at the firm. Mr. Prickett's longstanding association with Widener Law includes serving on the law school's Board of Overseers in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is also a Widener Law parent; his son William L. Prickett graduated from the law school in 1989.
"We are pleased to create this endowment in honor of Bill Prickett," said Paul A. Fioravanti, Jr., the firm's managing director. "The scholarship and graduation award will continue Bill's legacy at Delaware's law school, and we are proud to support Widener's commitment to excellence in corporate law."