Minecraft is Where Learning is Happening

Minecraft is not only creating youtubers: its creating movie makers, storytellers and turning every kid into a teacher, with skills in programming, English, chemistry, physics, biology, math, geography, history and engineering. Today, against my best judgment, I sat with my hypnotized kids to find out why these YouTubers playing Minecraft are so mesmerizing. I have […]

What Is Your Worth?

Once, I witnessed a woman make a fiery statement during a discussion among friends: “(…) It is indeed necessary to make it very clear that we women, precisely because we are strong, beautiful, and independent, are not sitting on a shelf waiting for some man to choose us (poor little things) and grace us with […]

Pushing the Limits

Once I did something almost unthinkable for me: I bought a magazine off the supermarket shelf while waiting in the checkout line. No, it wasn’t a gossip magazine—that would be too much! It was the surf magazine TRIP. The gorgeous Annelyse Schoenberger was showing her left nipple and inviting readers to delve into the main […]