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About Me

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A few random factoids... I actually read Thoreau's "Walden" for fun (and loved it). I speak more languages than most Americans. It's not good coffee to me unless I can't see through it. I do most of my swearing when alone (not sure what that says about me). I enjoy jaywalking (especially in Rome). A few pet peeves of mine: freezer door left open, crusty dishes, tailgating. If you look closely, my hair is a multitude of colors - red, brown, black, blond. I love walking (kinda like Thoreau). I love good wine and beer. I fancy myself an artist.

Basically, I'm a twenty-something world citizen with a passion for grassroots social change and a love for art, music and literature.
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I enjoy meeting all sorts of people - people that teach me something, who share their rich experience with me, who laugh easily and forgive, who will stay loyal and true to a friend. I want to meet everyone who forms the dense tapestry of the American fabric, of the world's fabric.

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My Blog

Declare your independence!

I've been reflecting on the significance of Independence Day. Ostensibly, its meaning is that we are a nation that freed itself from tyranny and that we remain free so long as we uphold (and pursue) t...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:37:00 GMT

Accidental Mullet

Have you ever had a perfectly ordinary haircut suddenly turn into a mullet?I mean, for weeks you have a hairstyle that's a little shaggy and a little groomed - a little early Beatles meets latter-day ...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:27:00 GMT

Roadside Hallelujah

Driving today the brown section of Highway 395 between Stanfield and Hermiston, 4:30pm rush hour, bound for a chapter meeting - conversation, decision-making, business. The day-weary commuters returni...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:26:00 GMT

Taliban gives Toyota two guns up

By Noam de Jeu, The Hard Worker  (a.k.a. Shaun Daniel)Early today the Japanese car manufacturer, Toyota, announced an end to a decades-long top secret testing of its vehicles in partnership with ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:40:00 GMT

Bathroom Humor

The other day in the Pilot gas station outside of Stanfield, Oregon, I found myself at the urinals as the Dirty Dancing hit "Hungry Eyes" came over the speakers. As the first guitar strums and chime-l...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:49:00 GMT

The actual responsibility of the community organizer

The GOP's celebrity de jour, Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, said something last night that really raised my ire. She belittled my profession and said that community organizers don't have actua...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:40:00 GMT

Alice Walkers "Once"

It is true-I've always lovedthe daring onesLike the black youngmanWho triedto crashAll barriersat once, wanted toswimAt a whitebeach (in Alabama)Nude.
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:19:00 GMT

Valedictorian Speech: "River to the Ocean"

I came across this when shuffling through some files and memorabilia and thought that the folks I went to high school with - all 26 of them in my class - might enjoy reading my valedictory from early&...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Finding the transcendent in La Grande

The planets were aligned last Thursday night.   How else to explain the collusion of forces that brought me to the same town on the same night where my friends Finn Riggins would be pl...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:18:00 GMT

"I wanna hear an American poem..."

This from Ras Baraka: "I wanna hear an American poem, an American poem about sharecroppers on the side of the road or families in cardboard boxes, not about kings or majestic lands or how beautiful u...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:22:00 GMT