Category: culture

Charlottesville Is Not So Very Far From Home

ByRachel August 14, 2017 0 Comments
When I was about 8 or 9 years old, we heard that a chapter of the KKK planned to hold a white supremacy rally in my small Midwestern town. Whether this was planned or just rumored I’m not sure, but we took the threat seriously. My father heard that concerned citizens intended to protest the rally to show their disapproval of white supremacy, to show the KKK that they could not claim our town as...

80s Babies Lesson 2: Technology May Need Boundaries, But It’s Pretty Wonderful

ByRachel March 25, 2016 0 Comments
This is Part 2 of a series (inspired by the article “Why 80s Babies Are Different Than Other Millennials”) in which I argue that 80s babies are actually the magic Rosetta Stone of figuring out a healthy balance between using technology and unplugging. Due to our weird place on the timeline of technological development, we have a perspective the world needs. In Part 1, we established that...

What 80s Babies Know About Balancing Technology

ByRachel March 22, 2016 3 Comments
  Back in November, I wrote a blog post about how much the internet has taken over our lives, and never got around to Part 2. I couldn’t figure out where to go from there—until I ran across the recent article “Why 80’s Babies Are Different Than Other Millennials,” and realized that 80s babies are actually the secret weapon to figuring out this modern technology conundrum. No,...

My Facebook Announcement

ByRachel March 22, 2016 1 Comment
I made a drastic decision about Facebook today: I am taking control of my life back from social media. From now on, I will use social media for marketing and to communicate with friends about plans, but nothing else. This is the announcement I typed up, and will post once per day for a week to make sure all my friends know. Feel free to borrow this for your own purposes if you would like to join...

Breaking my silence on the New Year’s assaults on women in Europe.

ByRachel March 10, 2016 0 Comments
I titled this “breaking my silence” not because I kept silent about this on purpose. I just never got around to it. After reflection, I regret not getting around to it, so I’m going to say something now, three months later. Everyone probably remembers the New Year’s attacks on women in Europe that took the news cycle by storm. These attacks raised a big concern: that some refugees who...