Walking Across the Brooklyn Bridge

Everyone in New York has probably done this. If they haven't I presume their excuses are health-related. But walking across the Brooklyn Bridge is one of those things most New Yorkers have experienced in their youth or at least, when they had a minute to give thanks to a Public Works project. This weekend I finally walked across the bridge. At first, it's like, oh yeah, the bridge! Then, it became a matter of when is this bridge ever going to end?! It did end and I am more the wiser.

Rush Wrongs Another Woman

In my humble opinion, Rush Limbaugh doesn't know what he's saying half the time. I know he has millions of listeners, and, he needs to say something worthwhile. But, as a college dropout with multiple divorces, maybe he should stop picking on the single, white, women who are educated with bachelor's degrees. I didn't think I would write this piece, but, it's nice to set some record straight about Tracie McMillan, my former boss. Read the piece I wrote at The Daily Beast here.

New York Times Reviews The American Way of Eating

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/books/tracie-mcmillan-writes-the-american-way-of-eating.html?ref=books&gwh=6539542206B3E3C503D2E6DBDFFD297D

Yesterday, Scribner officially launched The American Way of Eating. I'm proud to have helped with the book and even prouder of the author I worked with, Tracie McMillan. Yes, it seems odd for me to be proud of her, but that's just how it goes when you feel excited for someone you've come to admire so much. And, if you couldn't see from the picture, The New York-effin-Times wrote a review! You'll have to read the review for yourself. But, the press has not stopped. There's been press from NPR, Slate, Salon, LA Times, SF Gate, and many others. Michael Pollan gave a quick "Congratulations" over Twitter to Tracie herself. The best part is that yesterday I finally met Tracie. Believe it or not, all my work was done remotely and over the Internet. But, she said, she still owes me dinner.

The Life Report

Words to live by.

I know I made mistakes by being too accepting of whatever happened to me. I did not fight back. Always concerned about my honor and dignity and what others would think about me if I reacted certain ways. How foolish I was.

I realize our youth have a more difficult world than I did growing up. They live in fear and anxiety because of world affairs, our economy, joblessness and so many other things that affect them. Questions like when they graduate will they get jobs, will their parents still have jobs and homes, what about money, tuition, cost of living, health care. It is all so overwhelmingly, consumingly terribly to think about day after day, year after year.

Our younger generation needs to be more involved in making life better for all humanity rather than seeking careers with large salaries. We need more thinkers, scientists, those who care about making life better for all mankind. The future world is theirs to make.

-The Life Report: Regina Titus

The American Way of Eating

The American Way of Eating book cover. Release Feb. 2012.

My work with Tracie McMillan is finished. So, for those interested in learning what I helped research, here's the bio from the publisher. Also, when it really comes out, you better believe I will spam the hell out of it.

"Inspired by the growing interest in food and the conversation about what we should be eating and where it should come from award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan began to wonder how America's working class could afford, let alone have time, to eat as well as they should. In 2009 McMillan decided to immerse herself in America's food system--from farm to restaurant kitchen--and work undercover alongside America’s working poor in order to examine how we eat.

Moving from California to Detroit to New York, McMillan worked as a farm laborer, a Wal-Mart clerk in the grocery section, and an expediter at Applebee’s. She often lived and worked and shared kitchens and food with her co-workers. She takes us into these worlds with vivid descriptions of the people she meets; the grueling work; the treatment of workers; and the food that's being grown, sold, and prepared. She lives within the means her low pay allows and demonstrates what that means in terms of the food she can afford to buy and the time she has to prepare it. 

Good and healthy food should not be a luxury and in her important book Tracie McMillian explores why eating well in our country is limited to the few and what we can do about it and she establishes herself as an important young journalist writing about one of the hottest topics in America."

For more info visit Tracie's Facebook, her site here. Also follow Tracie here.