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  1. Facebook Goes Public to the Tune of $104 Billion

    5/18/12 10:30am by lauriewrites
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    Facebook IPO (Credit Image: © Shen Hong/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)

    The social sharing network that Mark Zuckerberg launched in a dorm room graduated big-time today, to the tune of a $104 billion public offering on Wall Street, making it the third largest IPO in history, and biggest ever for a tech company.  Read more >

  2. Dim All the Lights: Disco Queen Donna Summer Dead at 63

    5/17/12 1:51pm by lauriewrites
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    Singer Donna Summer died today, her family said in a statement. She lived in Florida in recent years, with husband Bruce Sudano, but no cause or location of death has yet been reported. She was 63 years old.  Read more >

  3. Facebook Buys Instagram: What Does it Mean?

    4/10/12 8:02am by lauriewrites
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    instagram photo

    I was just about to upload a photo to Instagram today (I am not making that up) when Twitter exploded with the news that Facebook had purchased Instagram for one billion dollars.  Lilypads by mikultcarter via Instagr.am I forgot about Instagramming my picture and jumped into a Twitter stream whose general reaction can be summed up with the following:  Read more >

  4. "Why Is Rue Black?" Racism and the Hunger Games

    3/27/12 8:21am by lauriewrites
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    Amandla Stender as Rue in The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games opened this weekend as the third-highest grossing film of all time, behind only Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two, and The Dark Knight.  Read more >

  5. Kirk Cameron, 8, NOH8: Hollywood Speaks on Gay Marriage

    3/8/12 10:05am by lauriewrites
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    Kirk Cameron Courtesy of CNN Embedded Video

    Actor Kirk Cameron talked to Piers Morgan on CNN this week and told him he wasn't a fan of homosexuality or of gay people getting married. Specifically:  "I think that it's - it's - it's unnatural. I think that it's - it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization."   Read more >

  6. "Date Night" Inadequate Sentence in Domestic Violence Case

    2/13/12 1:03pm by lauriewrites
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    Red Lobster image by me and the sysop via Flickr

    If a man puts his hands on his wife's neck in anger and throws her against a couch, at least one judge thinks that a date night at Red Lobster, bowling, and some flowers are enough to set things right.  Read more >

  7. Girl Scout Calls for Cookie Boycott Over Transgender Inclusion

    1/12/12 11:36am 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 >

  8. Fighting the Ivory Trade

    12/21/11 9:01am 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 >

  9. Give Kids the World With Multicultural Gifts

    12/18/11 7:25am 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 >

  10. Author Anne McCaffrey Dead at 85

    11/23/11 12:43pm 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 >

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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