In the book Eat Pray Love, the author says that every city has a word that describes it. For her, Rome’s word was sex (because of the sexy people, sexy clothes, sexy art, Venice, passion, etc, etc.). I agree that places and people can be summed up in one word. When I first came to [...]
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What are the possibilities when building a community from scratch?
Last week I got the opportunity to participate in the Naked Development Forum hosted by Serenbe and Kalu Yala. The entire day was focused on exploring the different ways to answer the question: How does one build community? I attended a session led by Ed Everett (who is the city manager responsible for the awesomeness [...]
In Honor of World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day was yesterday and over the course of the day, I thought about how HIV/AIDS have affected my life. It wasn’t until today that I actually got a chance to get anything on paper. When I was in middle school my uncle, who lived with my family, started to go blind. It started [...]
