Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Several days ago, my friend Joe Wahrhaftig died.I met Joe in 2002, because he and I went to the same stand-up comedy open mic at A Cuppa Tea (near the Berkeley-Rockridge border), and he came …
The other day I was walking with a friend who'd just been to a meeting with me and who's just recently started getting involved in local New York City political advocacy. During that meeting, I'd …
One of those posts that serves as a marker for future me, noting the kinds of things that seem like furniture now and I may someday nostalgically long for.Saw Queen of Katwe last night, the …
Autumn consistently gets me into this mood, where I want to jot down a constellation of memories and feelings that gesture toward a theme without ever quite defining it.It's Deepavali, as I learned to say …
This past weekend in New York City, the weather's oscillated in and out of crispness, sun and breeze cordially nudging each other out of the way. Talking with a newer volunteer at the outreach table …
The weekend after the Presidential election in November 2024, I was seized by the need to meet some neighbors, face-to-face, to be in solidarity with. On a crisp fall morning, I made a sign that …
Annually, the last week of the year, singer-songwriter Dar Williams plays at a concert here in New York City. I really loved the one I attended in 2017, when I wrote, I tried going to …
On a weekend morning many years ago, the constant low-level radiation of mailing list fracas led me to idly fantasize of sending a beseeching plaintive-yet-rousing post to one of them:Do you think there is no …
My friend Mel Chua died this week.I'm middle-aged now. I started this weblog as a young adult, and now it's been more than twenty years, and today I'm really feeling that change.Nearly eleven years ago, …
In mid-June I caught COVID-19 for, I'm pretty sure, the first time. The current dominant variants are transmissible enough that they got past my defenses. I believe I caught the virus either while wearing an …