Category: Daily Survival

  • Cut made by a thrown plastic object that struck me just at the eyelid.

    July 9, 2010
    Content note: Blood Wednesday was my first day with the rising 9th grade (the students who have just completed 8th…
  • Chalkboard dissecting a line from "Mystic Pad"

    June 16, 2010
    "As I got to know my adjunct colleagues better, I began to see these largely invisible, voiceless laborers as a…
  • Drawing with clock-hands in the center, labeled RIP.

    June 1, 2010
    Last Wednesday, there was a shoot-out at our site. A few coworkers, kids, and I had entered the center. I…
  • Banner displayed during Lasantha Wickrematunge's funeral procession, reading "We salute a brave journalist and trusted colleague. From Friends at Time Magazine."

    May 16, 2010
    This month marks the first anniversary of the Tamil genocide, which culminated in the Mullivaikkal massacre. On May 18, 2009,…