What was the best thing you learned about yourself this past year? And how will you apply that lesson going forward? I learned some hard lessons this year. But I think the best lesson I learned was to ask for help when I need it. For most of the last decade, I have functioned either [...] [Posted: 20 Dec 2010]
How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst? Two friends changed my perspective on the world this year, both within the last month — one about 30 minutes ago, in fact. They came in bursts. M. decided that, at 30, she [...] [Posted: 19 Dec 2010]
Warning: Schmoop ahead. Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010. What do I want to remember about 2010? I want to remember the fear followed by nervous laughter as I begged Jason not [...] [Posted: 17 Dec 2010]
“New York is among a group of metropolitan where the Great Migration created large black ghettos, and where very high levels of segregation have proved very resistant to change.” That’s John R. Logan of Brown University as quoted in the New York Times article Region Is Reshaped as Minorities Go to Suburbs (log in required). [...] [Posted: 15 Dec 2010]
New Orleans was among metros with the largest decline in segregation among blacks and whites since 2000, due largely to the exodus of low-income blacks from the city after Hurricane Katrina. One of the findings from a Brookings Institution review of census data as reported by the Associated Press in Black segregation in US drops [...] [Posted: 14 Dec 2010]
What we’ve been dealing with ever since is a painful process of “deleveraging”: highly indebted Americans not only can’t spend the way they used to, they’re having to pay down the debts they ran up in the bubble years. This would be fine if someone else were taking up the slack. But what’s actually happening [...] [Posted: 13 Dec 2010]
When it comes to aspirations, it’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step? I am going to cheat here. I think I already answered this question in my 11 things post. I also answered it in my one word post. I am going to save myself some typing by pointing [...] [Posted: 13 Dec 2010]
According to my ass, I need to eat fewer of these. What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life? I’m going to answer this in listicle form: Things my life doesn’t need Constant anxiety. These [...] [Posted: 13 Dec 2010]