Troy Headrick

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Eternal Impressions of the Eternal City

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Sep 11, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Last month I spent three glorious days touring Rome, Italy’s capital and a locale that can arguably be called the largest open-air museum in the world. Before my arrival there, I reserved a room in ...
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Take off those Rose-Colored Glasses!

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Aug 21, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I’ve long been a fan of Barbara Ehrenreich, author, progressive political activist, and contrarian extraordinaire. In this clip—excerpted from a much longer Fora.TV video–Ehrenreich discusses he...
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The Business of "Bizness" (and Related Matters)

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Aug 7, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I want to blog this really cool musical ensemble called tUnE-yArDs. To help me accomplish this, I’ve included a video of “Bizness,” the sixth track on tUnE-yArDs’ second (and newest) CD, WHOKI...
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Self-Indulgent What?

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jul 24, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com It’s hard to believe that it’s taken me this long to get around to blogging about journaling, especially given the fact that I’M A TEACHER OF WRITING AND HAVE MY STUDENTS WRITE IN JOURNALS IN AL...
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A Horde of Hoarders

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jul 11, 2011, 10:07 am
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I’m back in America and that can only mean one thing–it’s time for my backside to become reacquainted with the nearest comfy chair and then for me to watch a little TV. Each summer, when I’m b...
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An Armful of Beauty

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jun 26, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Writing these blogs gives me the opportunity to learn all sorts of new things about this interesting world we live in. For example, I’ve lately been educating myself about sterling silver jewelry, e...
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Listening with the Whole Body

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jun 12, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I’d like to make a confession. I’ve been incredibly distracted recently. So many things are going on right now. I’m getting ready to go on my annual trip back to the place where I was born and g...
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Here's Eddie

Troy Headrick posted an article on - May 15, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I’d been hearing about this musical group called the Drive-By Truckers (sometimes referred to as DBT) for quite some time, but I’d never taken the opportunity to check them out…until just recent...
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Facing Ourselves

Troy Headrick posted an article on - May 1, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com A few days ago I was in the “Biography and Autobiography” section of one of my favorite used bookstores, a place called The Book Spot. My eyes began reading the titles on the spines of all the vol...
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The Beat Goes On

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Apr 17, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Every now and then I run across a video that is so visually stunning that I simply feel compelled to blog it. This is one of those weeks. (If the previous entry included photos of “little gems,” t...
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These Little Gems

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Apr 3, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Hey, Savvy readers, listen up! I’m about to tell you about a new type of artwork that perhaps you haven’t heard of before. They’re called Art Cards, Editions and Originals, or more commonly, ACE...
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"Take the Other to Lunch"

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Mar 20, 2011, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I enjoyed writing about Elizabeth Lesser so much last time that I decided to blog another one of her videos this week. Her talk reminded me of my own experience. Every summer, when I travel home to Te...
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The One Constant in Life

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Mar 6, 2011, 8:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com It’s an exciting time to be living in Egypt. Everyone seems to be newly energized after the recent revolution against the government. There is a palpable feeling of optimism as the old ways of think...
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Women Behind the Barricades

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Feb 20, 2011, 8:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I apologize for my absence these past few weeks. During the Egyptian revolution it was simply impossible for me to blog for Savvy. I am finally beginning to decompress from the whole experience. I saw...
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Commotion

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jan 24, 2011, 6:22 am
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com This week I’m completing the second half of my two-part series on homes, home ownership, interior decorating, and all manner of related subjects. The video I’ve included is a real treat. It’s a ...
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The Mother of Invention

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jan 9, 2011, 8:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I bought my first home, in Texas, a couple of years ago. Up until that time, I’d always been a renter or had had housing provided, free of charge, through my employer. I had never been an actual hom...
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Resolve to Be Resolute!

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Dec 26, 2010, 8:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com With New Year’s Day right around the corner, it’s time (once again) to make those yearly resolutions. This time, though, you’re going to stick to them, right? Right! There are lots of good video...
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The New Pioneers

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Dec 13, 2010, 6:30 am
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com This week I want to blog about a really talented Dutch documentary filmmaker named Bregtje van der Haak and one of her more recent creations, a movie entitled California Dreaming. The film begins with...
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Every Two Seconds

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Nov 28, 2010, 8:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com OK, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m often very critical of mainstream news media sources. I frequently refer to them as channels of “infotainment,” a term loaded with pejorative connotatio...
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Silver and Gold

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Nov 14, 2010, 8:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com The Amazon.com people know me so well that I receive emails from them on a regular basis. The subject line of their most recent missive was “Troy Headrick: 100 $5 Albums.” It was the $5 part that ...
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Cultivating Quietness and Compassion

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Oct 31, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I don’t know about you, but I feel calmer just listening to the soft-spoken Geshe Lobsang Tenzin speak. He certainly is the ideal spokesperson for meditation and its benefits. His message about “c...
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The Resident

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Oct 17, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Raise your hand if you like to have fun. (I know you can’t see it, but I’ve got mine up.) I ask that question because I’ve got a fun write up for you today. I’m blogging Lori Harfenist’s sit...
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Anne Enright (Discovered and Revealed)

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Oct 3, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Two or three weeks ago I was in need of something to read. The university library was not immediately accessible to me, so I walked to the nearest bookstore and began to browse the shelves. In the pro...
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The Real Danger

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Sep 19, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com When I was home this summer, the hot topic, the subject everyone seemed to have an opinion on, was the construction of the so-called “Ground Zero mosque,” a misnomer if ever there was one. Actuall...
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Reconnecting

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Sep 5, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I returned to Cairo about a week ago. Classes, for the fall term at AUC, begin tomorrow. My holiday has officially come to an end. It’s now time to get back to a more regular schedule for writing my...
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It's All about Pace when Running the Race

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Aug 15, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com It’s mid-August and that can only mean one thing: Soon—too soon—I’ll be heading back to work and into the classroom. One of the perks of being an educator is that I get a lot of time off. But ...
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Doors

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Aug 1, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I knew the moment I watched this CNN video that I’d have to blog it. It’s a story that resonates with me on many different levels. First of all, Sibahle Tshibika, the video’s protagonist, has a ...
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On the Games People Play (and Related Subjects)

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jul 18, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Watching Fredricka Whitfield’s interview with Hephzibah Anderson, author of the memoir Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex, got me thinking about sex, one of my favorite Savvy blo...
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Cha-Ching

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jul 4, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Now that I’m back home for the summer, I’ve been spending some time each day watching the national news as a way of catching up on what’s going on and where Americans’ heads are at. (By the wa...
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After the Knife

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jun 20, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Those of you who are longtime readers of this blog know that in July of 2009 I had knee surgery, a procedure that involved meniscus repair and what is called “patellar shaving.” This past week, fo...
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The Golden Years?

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Jun 6, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com This video reminded me of a conversation I had recently with a fellow academic, someone who teaches at AUC but in a different department than the one I work in. She is at least ten years younger than ...
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The Deep Blue Sea

Troy Headrick posted an article on - May 30, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I have wonderful memories, dating all the way back to my early boyhood, of driving to the Texas Gulf Coast for family vacations. Because we lived inland, on the northern edge of what’s called th...
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Gray All the Way

Troy Headrick posted an article on - May 23, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Now that my classes at the university have ended for the year, I’m looking forward to summer vacation. In a little more than two weeks I’ll be flying to America to see my family, and on th...
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Maria Remembers

Troy Headrick posted an article on - May 9, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com Often, while I’m getting ready to go to work, I listen to a live, online broadcast of the day’s news put out by a relatively new media outfit called Russia Today. I like RT because t...
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LOL

Troy Headrick posted an article on - May 2, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I’m so pleased to be blogging about Dr. Madan Kataria and his worldwide initiative to bring peace, joy, sociability, and good health to the world. After watching a ton of videos about the ...
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Om

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Apr 25, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com This week I used the link I included in my last blog to locate another Tara Stiles video that I felt deserved a bit of commentary. This one is Stiles giving a mini-lesson on meditation, a subjec...
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I've Made Up My Mind

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Apr 18, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com You know, I’ve always been intrigued by yoga, maybe because it’s a method of getting fit that also has philosophical underpinnings, thus connecting body and mind in the pursuit of persona...
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The World's Crazy Mother

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Apr 11, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to blog this CNN video. I realize it has no direct connection to any sort of topic specifically related to women or the concerns of women, but I thi...
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I'm Climbing a Stairway

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Apr 4, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com I’m Climbing a Stairway… I’m blogging my second Rocketboom video this week. It’s pretty self-explanatory, so I’ll let you go ahead and have a look. Now, to get the...
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To Multi-task or Not to Multi-task?

Troy Headrick posted an article on - Mar 28, 2010, 9:00 pm
Troy Headrick The American University in Cairo Maadi, Cairo, Egypt contact@savvy-women-magazine.com That is the question. Before I provide you with my answer to that query, I’d like to announce a major discovery. A couple of days ago, I found this really cool blog called Rocketboom. The...
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About Me

I write a weekly blog for a magazine called Savvy Women's Magazine (SWM). There is a bit of biographical information at the SWM site. I'll cut and paste it below:

Troy is a writer, artist, and academician who currently teaches writing classes at The American University in Cairo. His stories, articles, personal essays, political and cultural commentaries, and poems have appeared in many publications (including this one), and he has shown his art internationally.

In 1993, he joined the Peace Corps and was sent overseas to teach at a small university in Tarnow, Poland. After completing a two-year stint as a Volunteer and then working on his PhD at Texas A & M University, he moved to the Middle East. Today, he lives in Egypt, but he has also spent time in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. Living as an expatriate has provided him with the opportunity to travel extensively. He is originally from Texas.

Troy has taught women's studies classes and currently teaches a freshman course that has "gender" as its main theme. He has also taught courses on happiness, creativity, heroes (and heroines), philosophy, American culture, critical thinking, and literature.

Troy's wish is to write a weekly blog that is fun, interactive, and thought-provoking. He hopes that readers will respond to his postings either via the comment function or email (contact@savvy-women-magazine.com). He welcomes questions and suggestions for future blog topics.

His first posting appeared in early May, 2009. You can read it at savvy-women-blog.com or simply click on the word, “blog,” in the upper right corner of the Savvy Women's Magazine site.

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