Category Archives: Asia

A Powerful Noise

I don’t usually go to the movies. It’s just too darn expensive. But I am going tomorrow. I know this will be worth every penny. You see, tomorrow is International Women’s Day, and I am celebrating by going to see this movie. I watched the preview and I felt inspired. I hope you do too….

Slumdog Millionaire a Voice for Children

If you have not yet seen the movie Slumdog Millionaire, you’ve surely heard of it. One of the biggest movies of the year, it just swept the Golden Globes and looks poised to do the same at the Oscars. For good reason – it’s affecting without being affected, gives us great multi-dimensional characters, has phenomenal…

Child Slavery…Did You Get Your Chocolate Bar For Free?

I’m a recovering chocoholic.  I broke my one chocolate bar a day habit while I was pregnant for my 2nd child.  By a strange course of mercy, I developed a strong dislike for chocolate while carrying that baby.  In fact, chocolate tasted like quinine.  I call it mercy, because aside from that change in my culinary…

Doing My Protesting From Home

I can’t be in San Francisco today to protest China while the Olympic torch is being passed through. But I did want my voice to be heard and for my face to be seen. Last week I received an email from the Save Darfur Campaign that made me want to do my part. It easy….

This Business of…Waiting for the World To Change…

I admit it…I have a tendency to be impatient. Although, I love the melody of John Mayers song, “Waiting for the World to Change,” there is always something inside me that bucks against the message. Deep down inside, I distrust the notion that the world will simply change while we wait or because we hope…