My family and I have just returned from an unforgettable vacation, which, given the firestorm in the U.S. press, I’m a little embarrassed to admit, and feel I need to justify: We went to Spain – at the same time as Michelle and Sasha Obama and girlfriends, and to many of the same spots (though…
My family and some friends recently watched Alamar, the new Mexican-Italian feature by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio (available through FilmMovement.com), on one of our countless, steamy east coast evenings. As we adjusted our over-stimulated, short-attention span watching habits to this near-documentary, it seemed a calm, cool peace from a simpler corner of our planet gradually washed over…
I received an email today from the Tahirih Justice Center, an outstanding non-profit organization dedicated to protecting immigrant women and girls fleeing violence, about critical upcoming legislation that every mom will care about. The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA), groundbreaking bipartisan legislation that will dedicate US resources and leadership to fight violence against women…
The euphoria of the final World Cup match is over and so many people around the world don’t know what to do with themselves. Summer 2010 has been marked by one nation after another facing off in the stunning World Cup, with the entire world (especially the Americans, more than ever before in the game’s…
THE GAMES THAT UNITE US When my family was living in West Africa, we became accustomed to seeing almost anything that had been thoroughly exhausted as a source of food or fuel get kicked toward a goal. Bottle caps, tin cans that could no longer be reused as containers, rotted cashew shells, abundant unripe mangoes—all…
Soccer is the world’s game and can connect us with a world community. For one month every four years it culminates in the World Cup, this June 11-July 11. This list is abridged from the longer list located in the Play! Chapter of Growing Up Global. 1. Do the WAKA WAKA and tap in to…
