Lauren on the road
I'm a multi-platform journalist based in Istanbul. I was a 2011 Fulbright fellow in Egypt, where I'm also a Pulitzer Center for Conflict Reporting grantee, working on an ongoing reporting project “Egypt: The Country Outside the Square.” Here: some slices of life, bits of meaning-making, journspiration, people, and color found along the way.
www.laurenebohn.com
Search
Brain food
Find me on...
I love this concept.
“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”
- Jaime Moore, Not Just a GirlThis is awesome!
reblogging again because i love this concept
(via think4yourself)
“The myth of the overnight success is just that – a myth.”
Alexander Graham Bell knew this when he famously said, “It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider … who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”
Thomas Edison knew this when he proclaimed, “Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.”
Amelia E. Barr knew this when she asserted, “Everything good needs time.”
(via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
“The older I get, the more I see the power of that woman, my mother.” - Sharon Olds. Happy Mother’s Day!
Paris Review Interview: Guy Talese, 2009
Katie Roiphe:: When did you realize that you had talent?
Guy Talese:: Never. All I have is intense curiosity. I have a great deal of interest in other people and, just as importantly, I have the patience to be around them.
“The most widely read books to come out of the financial crisis and its aftermath have been explanatory works of economics and politics, or narrative accounts focussed on players at the center of the action. Books of documentary reportage on the new depression have come and gone without much notice. That’s a shame, because, separately and together, they create a portrait of the country that is deeper, more disturbing, and, finally, more persuasive than tales of great men flying too close to the sun.”
George Packer on “the new depression journalism”
“You can’t go around buying Cadillacs on what the small mags pay,” Salinger wrote, “but that doesn’t really matter, does it?”
“Love is a great privilege. Real love, which is very rare, enriches the lives of the men and women who experience it.”
Simone de Beauvoir, Paris Review interview, 1965
“Life is like a roller coaster, it is going to have beautiful moments but it is going to be real f-ked up, too”
Patti Smith’s advice to the young
