Pleasure and Pain is going on vacation
If you follow me on Twitter, you probably already know that I leave tonight for Birthright, a free 10-day trip to Israel for Jews between the ages of 18 and 26. I will be traveling with 40 or so other people through URJ KESHER, one of Taglit-Birthright’s 30 tour [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Digressions'
Leaving for Israel
July 27th, 2008 · 5 comments so far
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Pacific Northwest Roadtrip 2008
July 1st, 2008 · 1 comment so far
I’ve been absent from the blog for a while because I’ve been on vacation (one of many this summer). First I spent the weekend in San Francisco visiting friends from college, wandering around the city and hanging with my “community of practice” peeps (thanks to Josh Williams for organizing brunch and Lorri Nault for putting [...]
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The Experience of Being a Woman
May 21st, 2008 · 6 comments so far
I have always wanted to be the woman who doesn’t feel the need to talk about women’s issues.
I have always wanted to be the woman in business whom people describe as an astute leader and force to be reckoned with without ever being called a “woman in business.”
I have always wanted to be the woman [...]
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Finding Myself in You
May 18th, 2008 · 2 comments so far
Sometime this weekend I hit 10,000 unique visitors on this measly little blog. (Well, unique cookies at least.)
I have been writing here since January 10 of this year. I never expected to attract much of a following, let alone in just four months. Pleasure and Pain is now averaging 920 unique visitors weekly, and there [...]
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List of Firsts: Saturday, April 19, 2008
April 21st, 2008 · 2 comments so far
Saturday was a perfect day in Manhattan. It was the first real day of Spring that I could actually enjoy — so naturally I took my bike out of storage, pumped up the tires and went for a joy ride.
Every time I go bike riding I try to explore something new. Saturday was certainly no [...]
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