Salty observations about life, love, and living abroad
For a small nation, Denmark certainly looms large in the conversation. From hygge to Noma to Joe and the Juice, my current country of residence garners more than its fair share of attention. And now here we are in the midst of another presidential election--as if the last one ever ended--and Denmark keeps popping up as... Continue Reading →
SPOILERS BELOW: Women's roles, in literature and cinema, as well as in life, are more often about mending wounds than inflicting them. But sometimes, just sometimes, popular culture gets it just right. **** Take what I have to say with a grain of salt. I'm not a GoT super fan. I haven't read the books.... Continue Reading →
https://medium.com/@DinaHonour/maybe-thats-your-world-but-it-doesn-t-have-to-be-mine-3434fd960130 https://medium.com/@DinaHonour/maybe-thats-your-world-but-it-doesn-t-have-to-be-mine-3434fd960130 Maybe when you were six, skipping rope, a stranger showed you a part of himself you should never have seen. Maybe when you were eleven, one of the uncles who sat around your dinner table touched you in places you didn’t even know you had. Maybe when you were fourteen, Love’s Baby Soft... Continue Reading →
#Breaking: As part of Operation Kringle, President Trump today ordered the deployment of the newly renamed 1st North Pole Battalion to an undisclosed mid-west location to monitor and protect the Koch Tree Farm, the nation's largest supplier of Spruce and Fir trees. President Trump today, speaking from a dais festooned with holly and ivy, declared... Continue Reading →
No one expects a revolution. Oh sure, uprisings are almost always the result of powder kegs of inequity and frustration built up over time, but no one can accurately predict the stray match which lights up the night. Who would have predicted a dearth of French cake or a shipload of too-taxed tea would be... Continue Reading →
America is supposed to be better than this. Where is the country, young, scrappy, and hungry, that stood up to a mad king and against all odds, won its independence? The country which has a statue at one of its busiest ports challenging the world to give us its tired and poor, its huddled masses yearning... Continue Reading →
"Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he's fired. He's fired!" -Donald Trump Last year Colin Kaepernick, an American football player, refused to stand during the American national anthem. Several other high-profile athletes such as US soccer star Megan Rapinnoe followed suit. The backlash was quick. A year later, it hasn't... Continue Reading →
Not that long ago a friend pulled me aside and said, "You know, if you lived a few centuries ago, I think you'd have been burned at the stake." It was meant as a compliment, and I took it as one. Because what he meant was that outspoken women, loud women, women who didn't sit... Continue Reading →
There's a story I've been telling recently I think bears repeating. A year or two before my son started school, there was a buzz. Word on the playground was that a momentum was building. A group of neighborhood parents, priced out of NYC private schools and frustrated at the lackluster performance of the local public schools,... Continue Reading →
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