By CJ Callen Rosencrantz: What are you playing at? Guildenstern: Words. Words. They’re all we have to go on. — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard Words matter and strike at the heart of what it means to engage in respectful dialogue with others. Alas, respectful dialogue remains elusive in our Hollywood black…
By Edd Conboy January 26, 2011 For darn near as long as I can remember there has been a meme afoot (do memes have feet?) about the global village, how small the world is, how flat the earth is becoming, and so forth. More recently, a contravening force, or at least an alternative view, has…
By John Esterle January 20, 2011 Following up on yesterday’s post about the blog being a place where the TWI community can share what we’re reading, here are three articles I received this week that folks wanted to share: From Ellen Schneider of Active Voice comes a New York times article on a U.S. State…
By John Esterle January 18, 2011 As Pia noted in her recent post, TWI starts 2011 with a recommitment to seeding our blog on at least a weekly basis. Why? Because we think it can be a way for the TWI community to stay connected with what we’re thinking, feeling, and doing; what we’re reading,…