The closer and closer I get to being an Official Social Worker (May 2010!), license and membership card and all (hence the Official-ness), the more I think about how I’m going to actualize the important Social Work Values I believe in: social justice, economic justice, … Read More →
Author Archives: leah
My Letter to Congress
Dear Congress,
I am a 28-year-old graduate student living in Atlanta, GA. I grew up reading books – hundreds of books, because I loved to read. My family was middle-class, but not wealthy. They couldn’t afford to buy all the books I wanted to read, so … Read More →
9/11
and the shock was subsonic
and the smoke was deafening
between the setup and the punch line
cuz we were all on time for work that day
we all boarded that plane for to fly
and then while the fires were raging
we all climbed up on the windowsill
and then we … Read More →
Education
“Men take it for granted that their sexual organs can greatly increase in size and then become small again without being ruined. If obstetricians (and women) could understand that women’s genitals have similar abilities, episiotomy and laceration rates in North America might go down overnight.” … Read More →
Home Sweet Home
Before our move, I wasn’t totally convinced I would like living in Sandy Springs again. But you know what? I love it. I love our apartment – from the spacious bathroom, to the hammock on the balcony, to the big windows all around. And I … Read More →
School Daze
So I had an awesome birthday. Aside from the scary clown cake that greeted me at 6:00 Tuesday morning. (See, I’ve gotten Mark a birthday cake every year on his birthday. He’s never gotten me one. So I finally mentioned that to him, and this … Read More →
Birthday Musings
Our wonderfully talented and witty friend and fellow blogger JennyMac shares my love of birthdays and all of the celebration and reflection that comes with making another trip around the sun. Inspired by her touchingly hilarious birthday post, I am writing a letter to my … Read More →
OTP, Yeah You Know Me
So here we are, just a hop-skip-and-a-jump away (literally) from Sandy Springs, the neighborhood of my adolescence. Yes, we moved Outside The Perimeter of Atlanta, aka OTP. We used to make fun of folks who lived OTP. So far away from all the cool, non-chain … Read More →
Public Health Final
NPU-V Final from LeahAndMark.com on Vimeo.
Ha, I’m such a nerd that I’m posting my final project for my “Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health” class. We were supposed to look at social determinants of health in Neighborhood Planning Unit V, a primarily low-income, African … Read More →
Wedding Advice
Our wedding was so fabulous that we wouldn’t change a single thing about it… but we did learn a thing or two about pulling off a wedding in the process. Yeah, there are tons of wedding advice sites out there, with an overwhelming amount of … Read More →
Thanksgiving
Wishing our dear readers, friends, and family a very Happy Thanksgiving!