Journalist-reader-writer-watcher-worrier-joker
Editor @theworld.org
Formerly: Real Humans, Central Standard & Midwesternish @KCUR + freelance for Nieman Reports, PRX, Mass Humanities, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Boston Globe, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Gina Kaufmann
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Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should try so to live that our name getting scraped off a building brings no pleasure to the world.
- John Steinbeck, "East of Eden" [adapted]
The Onion
Gina Kaufmann
Zach Everson
Me reading your takes:
*** “we’re”
Jane Yolen’s death has me feeling something hard to name. She gave me and my young child some beautiful moments. I still remember the first time I read Owl Moon. For some reason I was sitting on the kitchen floor with my toddler on my lap (this isn’t so strange in early parenthood).
Today I learned that humans are the only species that has a chin. For a split second, I was like "nuh uh, what about cats" then I pictured a cat and realized their "chins" are the same as their "mouths."
How have I gone so long not realizing this?
Took a yoga class where the teacher’s periodic mention of “option to sigh” prompted some hearty exhales and made me think we should bring that phrase into more settings.
I’m gonna try it next time I lead a newsroom pitch meeting, when the story ideas were kicking around feel especially bleak.
