Something to share

Wow, what the people really want is politics!  I've had three times as much traffic on my blog because of my last post--maybe I should turn over a new leaf and go all "Lilitico" every week...?  Umm, yeah, no.  Sorry to disappoint, but this post is back to my usual oeuvre with only a teeny, tiny touch of politics mixed in!

I've decided to start an occasional series sharing things I run across on the internets, what I liked or what interested me or made me stop and think or caught my attention or what have you.  There is no order, no structure, no agenda, just a random collection of bits and pieces I want to share.  It's a little like being inside my head while I'm surfing the web.  Crazy, isn't it?

• I identified so deeply with this article.  Her stroke happened in a different part of her brain and her experience was very different from mine, but some of her thoughts and feelings felt spot on, even after all this time.

• Ohmygoodness, I have seen every single one of these expat types.  Heck, at one time or another this past year I have BEEN every single one of them!

• Watch Maz Jobrani's stand-up routine at TED in Doha for a good picture of life in Qatar and the rest of the Middle East.  It's from 2012 so a tad out-of-date but still relevant.

• Almost every one of these kid hacks are sheer genius!

• Using bike riding as a metaphor to explain white privilege seems like it won't work at all, but it actually does.  An illuminating post.  (Not surprisingly, there was a lot of interest in this post, and the author wrote a follow-up here.)

• I don't really care much what celebrities say, because being a celebrity really doesn't grant you any special wisdom most of the time, but I was interested in what these famous women had to say about getting older.

• And, in case you missed it on my Facebook feed, this fabulous (satirical) take on writing a sentence.