only+nina

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public policy graduate with a passion for social justice and eye for design.

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life-is-like-a-wineglass:

sigh.

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Beer Appreciation Blog: Sum’r Ale by Uinta

This is definitely a summer beer, intended to be drunk ice cold on a humid day. It’s a little more hoppy than I generally like, but...

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In which President Obama gives a fifth-grader the best absence note ever.

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Day 1 ACCRA

First day in Ghana and so much has happened! Where do I begin…

HI MOM! (because, lets be real, she’s pretty much the only one reading this) The plane flight was long...

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Olympic Hopeful of the Day: Diving phenom Jordan Pisey Windle, at just 13, is the youngest ever to qualify for the U.S. Olympic diving trials, which will be held in Seattle...

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A little bit of what I do during my days… so for Hopkins I’m taking this reading assessments course which is totally inappropriate for pre-k and feels like a general waste of my...

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Just call him Mr. 47 Out of 50.

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Anonymous asked: were you born in detroit? if not, why move to detroit of all cities in the us, especially given its bad reputation for violent crimes?

Bio Time! I wasn’t born in Detroit. I was born in San Diego and grew up in Tucson. My dad grew up in Detroit during the 50s all the way through the mid 70s. He stayed just off of...

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“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ...

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I was able to talk to him on the phone without my heart falling to pieces (completely). I can be strong. Slow progress.