Blog Title: Women Life Technology and the Pursuit of Happiness

You might have noticed that I suspended my blog…

At the beginning of October I decided to suspend my blog, and my life. I took a month off from work, packed my stuff, and jumped on a bus to Pennsylvania. I worked for a month in Norristown, the Headquarter of the Obama-Biden campaign in Montgomery County as a volunteer ...

Post-debate meditation on loneliness, greatness, and imperfection

Starting next week, I will be in Pennsylvania talking to undecided voters and getting out the vote. Just to be clear, this means doing all the things I'm not good at and scares the shit out of me. But I'll try to do my best, and to make a ...

An urgent call to action

Dear friends, I know that many of you are passionate about this elections as I am, and want to see Barack Obama elected in November with all your heart. (if you are reading this post and you are planning to vote for McCain, that's OK. But please, please, verify the information ...

I’m American and I’m voting this November

So it happened. Last Wednesday, with 65 other people from 40 countries, I became an American Citizen. And you can see that I'm quite happy about it. Because now, my dear friends, I can vote. Yes, I can. And so should you.

Pride!

Of things lost, of things found

I’m looking at my mother and touching her hand, but she doesn’t look back at me. She stays still, folded on herself, her back bent forward, looking down; then she shuts her eyes as hard as she can. She is trying to keep out the sounds and the images that ...

Dreaming things that never were, and asking why not

Politics is very much in my mind these days. Barack Obama is the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton has just given her concession speech, and the 40-year anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination has just passed. On a personal note, I'm dealing with the painful awareness of ...

Roberto Saviano in NYC

Roberto Saviano, author of the best selling book Gomorrah, spoke last Thursday at the Festival of International Literature in NYC. Gomorrah, a chilling account of the Camorra's deep connections with the "legal" Italian economy, sold more one million copy in Italy and has been translated in 33 languages. Alexander Stille, ...

An almost love letter to Haruki Murakami

Dear Mr. Murakami, the first time we met, I was very angry at you. I had just finished reading the Wind-up Bird Chronicle, which I had received as a Christmas gift. I'm a slow reader in English, but a mysterious force pushed me to go through the 607 pages of the ...

Well-behaved women seldom make history

I've been tagged by Nick Barrowman at Log base 2, with the historical figure meme. My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to pick a historical figure and list 5 random/weird things about this person. I had to think really hard to pick my favorite historical figure. I don't ...