Whatever happened to Benjamin Ragheb?

I was having a conversation with somebody I met last night and we were running through all the standard biographical interview questions: What do you do for work? Where are you from? How long have you lived in New York? I tried to think of somewhere more interesting to take the conversation, so I asked …

You can’t bear to throw out plastic bags because they are reusable. Unfortunately, you also accumulate them at a far faster rate than you use them, leading to a surplus of plastic bags laying around your home. What do you do? First, buy a reusable cloth shopping bag from your grocery store. They usually cost …

I am fortunate to have a friend who is a Congressional staffer and, more importantly, lives on Capitol Hill. I traveled to Washington, DC.. last weekend, ostensibly to visit her, but mostly to sleep on her futon so that I could be there for the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States …

Good morning. This is a poem by Langston Hughes. Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it …