Can We Really?

Three years ago, around 11pm Eastern time, the news went out around the world that Barack Obama had won the 2008 U.S. Presidential election and had become the first African-American president of this country. Three years later… Obama is still president, gearing up for his 2012 re-election campaign – a campaign that might have seemed [...]

Ten

I remember crowding into my dorm’s common room to watch the news coverage on the big screen television. I remember attending a spontaneous mass in the middle of the day, because there was literally nothing else we could do. I remember watching Pretty Woman later that night, when my friends and I were burned out [...]

Two

(A bit delayed, thanks to life, but here nonetheless) Ordinary Mer is two! Two years ago, I decided I had so many opinions, I just had to have a place on the Internets to write them all down, where no one could interrupt me. Truth be told, I’m still not exactly sure what I’m doing [...]