Elenamary

Yesterday, was Blog Action Day. Each year bloggers are given a theme and encouraged to blog about it. Last year the theme was the Environment. This year the theme was Poverty. Last year I participated, this year I had intended to participate and did not.

Which is not to say I haven’t been thinking about poverty. [...]

Día de la Resistencia Indígena  o también Día de la Raza, fue celebrado ayer el doce de Octubre.  Pero hoy en Ohio es día de festivo en mi universidad y en las oficinas del Gobierno, el dia que ellos celebran el Cristóbal Colon.  Mientras los jueces y legisladores descansan y piensan en Cristóbal Colon, ni [...]

It may seem unAmerikan but I like doing research on the candidates and issues before I vote.  I usually google all candidates, issues, and read the arguments of both sides, and review newspaper editorials.  Two of my big resources have have also been The League of Pissed off Voters and Progress Ohio.
After I do my [...]

During the debates I got angrier and angrier about Sarah Palin. When she was first announced as the VP Candidate I was annoyed but not surprised that a group of old white man thought this was their best plan. But as time has gone on, I am more and more insulted as an American, as [...]

I was working at a women’s health clinic doing medical interpretation.  The doctor and I had just seen a patient, a young woman from Oaxaca, Mexico whose Spanish had an indigenous language accent, I would guess Zapoteco but I have had Mixteco speaking patients as well. When we left the room, the Anglo doctor who [...]