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  1. Girl Scout Calls for Cookie Boycott Over Transgender Inclusion

    1/12/12 10:36am by lauriewrites
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    girl scout cookie boycott

    If a 14-year-old girl named Taylor had her way, I'd have said "No thanks" yesterday when my friend suckered me into buying four boxes of Girl Scout cookies. (And by "suckered" I mean "asked." Thin mints? Twist my arm.) Taylor and Girl Scouts USA watchdog outfit HonestGirlScouts want to hit the Girl Scouts where founder Juliette Lowe likely never thought they'd live: a boycott of cookie sales. Taylor speaks at length in a YouTube video about the danger of the inclusion of a seven-year-old Colorado resident named Bobby Montoya in a local Girl Scout troop.  Read more >

  2. Fighting the Ivory Trade

    12/21/11 8:01am by lauriewrites
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    Elephants

    Elephants are among the most interesting, visually-appealing, task-oriented animals in the kingdom, called upon for everything from hauling human beings to shooting water on command. And, all too frequently, they are killed and maimed for their ivory tusks, skins, and meat, or abused in situations where they are called upon to perform stunts for human audiences. I don't think it's true that they never forget. How could they? I couldn't. Could you?   Read more >

  3. Give Kids the World With Multicultural Gifts

    12/18/11 6:25am by lauriewrites
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    Blue and Gold Globe Christmas, via Shutterstock

    It's Christmas all over the world, as the song says, not to mention Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, St. Lucia Day, Boxing Day, and Winter Solstice, to name just a few of the year-end milestone days in myriad cultures and faith traditions. While not all of these celebrations come with gifts as a primary component, several do, and especially as families and communities mesh more and more, the desire to recognize a loved one or a peer with a token of appreciation in December is certainly real and often practiced.  Read more >

  4. Author Anne McCaffrey Dead at 85

    11/23/11 11:43am by lauriewrites
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    Anne McCaffrey by Anna Creech

    Prolific and famed sci-fi/fantasy author Anne McCaffrey, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series, died Monday. She was 85.  Read more >

  5. Holiday Gifts for the Digitally Career-Minded

    11/13/11 6:14pm by lauriewrites
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    With the holidays arriving, even some of the most career-minded among us look forward to some time off (or at least more fun between workdays.) With a little thought, it's possible to send the worker bees in your life back to the office after the holiday with a thoughtful gift or two. And while it's nice to snag the shiniest new digital tablet, it's also possible to think beyond the iPad. (Although please Santa bring me one? Thanks.)  Read more >

  6. The Beach Trees: A Bittersweet Love Song to the Gulf Coast

    7/27/11 2:00pm by lauriewrites
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    Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?  Even if you've never been there, Karen White's The Beach Trees may make you feel like you do. This bittersweet love song to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana paints the region as an essential backdrop to any story that takes place within its borders, even this tale of multi-generational family love, intrigue, and death.   Read more >

  7. Can You Keep a Blog a Secret?

    7/19/11 5:00am by lauriewrites
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    A woman keeping a secret

    I still remember how I felt the first time a real-life-first friend commented on my blog. I have no idea what she wrote in her comment, but I know that when I saw her name and personal reflections on my words, I felt unexpectedly uncomfortable.  Read more >

  8. Daniel Radcliffe Stops Drinking Because He Can Stop Anytime He Wants

    7/6/11 10:54am by lauriewrites
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    Daniel Radcliffe Stops Drinking

    Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, 22, says that drinking alcohol is a problem for him, and he has stopped. The boy wizard's alter ego and the face of his wildly popular character for all of the films based on J.K. Rowling's legendary series, says that as he began coping with the pressures of fame, he drank too much to "enjoy stuff," and this is no longer the life he wants to lead. He told GQ UK:   Read more >

  9. July 4th Celebrations Create Republican Kids?

    7/4/11 6:00am by lauriewrites
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    4th of July

    Is a kid who attends 4th of July celebrations more likely to become a Republican?One study out of Harvard says so. The findings indicate that a child who attends at least one rain-free 4th of July celebration before the age of 18 is 4 percent more likely to vote Republican before the age of 40. And when eventual voting behavior is not considered, these children are still two percent more likely to identify as conservative.  Read more >

  10. Burning 'The Book of Negroes'

    6/29/11 11:30am by lauriewrites
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    The Book of Negroes

    Canadian author Lawrence Hill won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize in 2008 for a book that has recently received more attention and controversy for its title than its content.   Read more >

Laurie White

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Laurie White
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About Me: 

My name is Laurie.

I have always loved words, pictures, stories, and people. I read and write obsessively. Over the years I've kept paper journals, written quotes obsessively on scraps of paper and in notebooks, gotten in trouble in class for writing back and forth when I should have been learning some theorem or the other, sent heartfelt and sometimes-ill-advised letters, fallen in love over e-mail and broken up as a result of - and also in the early days of - instant messaging. I'm an Internet freak but admittedly came (relatively) late to blogs.

Music, books, and photography are very important to me. I love to travel, and experience other places and cultures. At heart I'm a beach bum, but anywhere compelling will do. I've so far only been to a fraction of the places I want to go. I also enjoy traveling alone, which I've found freeing and not at all lonely (99 percent of the time.)

Photography is inseparable from my trips, and I love great photoblogs. I live in Maryland, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.. I grew up here, but spent five years in Ohio for grad school and my first job. As a result, I sometimes consider myself, oddly, a transplanted Midwesterner. I 've had a million jobs, but most often work as a writer and a teacher.

Right now, you can find me online at LaurieWrites, and my photos on Flickr. 

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