Kmareka.com Jan 2003, Socially Responsible Investing, Feature Blog Depression2.tv, How to Build Your Own Cooperative School, and More!

This issue features stories on Socially Responsible Investing, Building Your Own Cooperative School, and The Power of the Child Protagonist in Fiction. Our feature memoir, Wounded Without the Pleasure of a Scar, is by Kara Laughlin. Hungarian Cherry Soup is our feature recipe, a sweeter Americanized version that makes a great dessert. Depression2.tv is the winner of our quarterly prize for feature blog/website, with its high quality content and fierce spirit of independent journalism.

Kathryn Kulpa writes on The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, and other novels with powerful child protagonists. Kara Laughlin's memoir is a rare and honest account of the birth of her first child. Kevin Marek surveys the scene on socially responsible investing and the resources available on the subject, plus interviews Robert Rubenstein of Triple Bottom Line Investing and Todd Larsen of the Social Investment Forum. Kiersten Marek visits a cooperative school and discusses the benefits and risks of this innovative approach.

The feature recipe for this issue is Hungarian Sour Cherry Soup, an americanized sweeter version.

Kmareka.com is an online quarterly of literature, politics, finance and more. We strive to publish informative, thought-provoking writing from a broad social work/humanities point-of-view.