Monthly Archives: July 2012

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  aid worker underwear

  Posted on July 29, 2012 by nikki in aid work, rituals.

  I’m at it again. Packing. This time it’s for a one-month stint in South Sudan. The conditions will be tough, I’ve been warned. Shared sleeping tents, limited electricity, knee-deep mud, two latrines for forty people. I’ve already gotten much advice from the hardened colleagues already there: Bring vitamins, Ruby shared, because fruits and vegetables are […]

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  was nora ephron right? does getting older suck?

  Posted on July 23, 2012 by nikkimeredith in politics and religion.

  In the last essay in her book “I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman,” the late Nora Ephron expressed unhappiness about being older.  The tone, which borders on the desolate, is quite different than the lightness of the other essays in the book.   ‘The honest truth is that it’s […]

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