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Linnea Ashley on December 23rd, 2005

i’ve been thinking politically lately. maybe that isn’t the right word. socially conscience? aware? something…anything. not that i was little miss oblivious before. anyone who knows me knows that i have my subjects. i have things that rile me up and get me talking a mile a minute and going on and on about the […]

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Linnea Ashley on December 22nd, 2005

my life has been in transition for the last few months. i guess i could argue that my life has been in transition for as long as i’ve been alive. short spurts of one thing before it is traded in for another. and i love it. i get the chance to start new things…to start […]

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Linnea Ashley on December 15th, 2005

AUSTRALIA: NEW POLICE POWERS TO CURB RACE VIOLENCE   Sydney, 15 Dec. (AKI) – An emergency session of the state parliament in Sydney, Australia, has approved greater powers for the police, after the city has been struck by racial and mob violence. The New South Wales assembly decision means police will have more power to […]

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Linnea Ashley on December 12th, 2005

I’ve been in a panic this last week. Trying to pull my New Zealand stuff together has proved more daunting than I expected. I’ve done visa applications before, but this one was crucial. All of a sudden I had to provide my work history, my medical history. All of a sudden my gypsy lifestyle has […]

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Linnea Ashley on December 7th, 2005

don’t panic, your favorite crash test dummy has not had another run…knock on wood…but i did watch crash. more than crash i’ve lived crash for the last few days. if you haven’t seen it, it is a movie about people in their everyday lives and how race crashes up against those lives in expected and […]

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Linnea Ashley on November 30th, 2005

it is the only tulane shirt i own. a gift from someone even before i enrolled in school…a gentle nudging in the public health direction. that’s neither here nor there… the point is that i was wearing jeans and a tulane school of public health t-shirt. green. simple. unrelated to sports. as i walked toward […]

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Linnea Ashley on November 25th, 2005

i am tired these days. given the option, sleep is a beautiful thing for me…something that signals the end of a long day of doing and thinking. signals a chance to recharge for whatever the next day has to throw at me. but in the last few months sleep has been less about recharging and […]

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Linnea Ashley on November 24th, 2005

home is getting more and more ambiguous for me. not because i’m currently displaced, but because what or where i consider home has shifted over the years and not true replacement has taken hold. when i was in college home was easily my folk’s house. houston. that was where my stuff was…where i went for […]

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Linnea Ashley on November 23rd, 2005

i’d like to blame the feeling i have on anyone but myself. my sense of otherness…my sense that i need to decide what i want with my life this very instant. i’d like to blame the sincerely curious questions and those that ask them ,for the feeling of dis-ease that overtakes me when i try […]

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Linnea Ashley on November 22nd, 2005

i find it insulting to make rules and then to change the rules you make because they don’t have your desired results. when i was younger my parents always made sure that i understood that even if they gave me a chance to express my opinions on something that they ultimately had the last word […]

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