Good Golly Miss Molly

# January 26, 2012 / 10:25PM 1,228 notes

This photo is making the rounds of the office with the subject line: “cupcaaaakes.” The three extra a’s all stand for “amazing.”

Obama and cupcakes are two of my favorite things!

Made these back in ‘08. Not as pretty, I will admit, but they were delicious!

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Writing lesson plans feels like composing symphonies. With each “instrument” or clef corresponding to a different domain of a child’s development and background.

— My friend [is going to be the best inner-city school teacher ever.]

# January 17, 2012 / 12:07AM

Let Freedom Ring! Celebration at the Kennedy Center honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. →

Tonight I had the privilege of being part of the Let Freedom Ring! celebration at the Kennedy Center as a member of the Georgetown University choir. The incredibly talented Bobby McFerrin gave an amazing performance and it was a great experience singing with him.

Additionally, the 10th annual Legacy of a Dream Award was presented to Clarence Jones, MLK’s former attorney and speechwriter who helped draft the “I Have a Dream” speech. (This guys is pretty awesome.) And to make it even better, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were in the audience!

Even though the video’s a little over an hour long, it’s definitely worth watching. The concert was a great way to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nights like tonight make me all the more committed to (and excited for!) my work in public policy and social justice and singing onstage at the Kennedy Center is an experience I will not soon forget.

# January 16, 2012 / 9:57AM 282 notes

Letter from Birmingham Jail →

longformorg:

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”

Martin Luther King Jr. | Liberation | May 1963

(via motherjones)

# December 29, 2011 / 1:41AM

reading notes from my senior yearbook (2007)

friend: I think he asked you on a date in your yearbook.
me: what?! no. I never noticed that. wait... do you think it's too late to accept?

# November 30, 2011 / 10:45PM

Me: The Hanson brothers are coming out with their own beer called MmmHop. I kid you not.
Friend: HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH this is the best thing i've ever heard.

# November 25, 2011 / 12:36PM

Nerd herd hits the radio waves for Cards Against Humanity on WGN Chicago.

# November 21, 2011 / 8:45PM 2 notes

totes bummed about my impending decapitation.

# November 13, 2011 / 1:43AM 600 notes

obamaisthenewknope.tumblr.com: pictures of Barack Obama with commentary by Leslie Knope.

THIS ONE WINS.

# October 22, 2011 / 7:24PM 1 note

Frank: Charlie, you can’t just start your own party… you gotta talk to people about this…Charlie: Yes you can. If you’re not as educated or as informed, what you do is you start your own party and you yell the loudest.
[Sweet Dee Gets Audited]

Frank: Charlie, you can’t just start your own party… you gotta talk to people about this…
Charlie: Yes you can. If you’re not as educated or as informed, what you do is you start your own party and you yell the loudest.

[Sweet Dee Gets Audited]