Category: Asides
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Current Project: iHRIS: Free and Open Health Workforce Information Software
I have been working lately, and here’s what I’ve been working on. I’ve been revamping the website for iHRIS: Free and Open Health Workforce Information Software. This is a project to create open source human resources information systems that governments in the developing world can use to manage their health workers. We just launched the new…
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Get A Real Job Redux
IAM Community has republished an older essay of mine that I still like a lot. It’s called Get A Real Job. Go check it out!
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Being a stay-at-home mom who answers questions on Quora…
I’ve answered a couple of questions about being a stay-at-home mom on Quora recently, and I quite like the answers. I invite you to go read them along with all the other great answers to these two questions: Is it anti-feminist not to be okay with women being homemakers? What is it like to be…
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More book reviews! Science fiction by women…
I was pleased to contribute three of my book reviews to SF Mistressworks, a blog devoted to reviewing science fiction written by women and published during the 20th century. The reviews: A Gift Upon the Shore by M.K. Wren The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin Where Late the Sweet Birds Sing…
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The Big Lebowski (as Told by Donny)
I’m going through one of my notebooks and saving out the good stuff. Here is a “found” poem, so to speak: a summary of The Big Lebowski, as told (mostly) by Donny’s lines of dialogue, with just a little help from Walter. Enjoy. The Big Lebowski (as told by Donny) [Donny, you’re out of your…
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How the time does go by…
So I was driving along on this beautiful sunny day, bopping along to Jackson Browne‘s great song, “The Load-out,” when it occurred to me how many anachronisms that song contains, at least from an early 21st-century point of view. Eight-tracks, cassettes, disco, truckers on CB. Richard Pryor! Anyone younger than me must think Browne is…
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A few words from writers about drinking…
“When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there’s no holding me.” — William Faulkner “Faulkner was a big drinker, went on wild binges, but he never wrote much while drunk. He and others drank to broaden their vision, their…
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About evidence that there are other universes…
The other day I read this, about evidence that there are other universes outside our own. I imagined each universe as a soap bubble, floating in nothingness and occasionally bumping into one another. And I thought to myself: “Nothing we do matters at all.”
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Me on the Huffington Post
Here’s a list I originally wrote for Flashlight-Worthy Book Recommendations that was recently revamped and republished on the Huffington Post: 11 Zombie-Free Flashlight Worthy Novels to Help You Survive the Apocalypse (PHOTOS). Woohoo! Big time!
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The New York Times’ Lens blog tried an experiment…
On Sunday, May 2, the New York Times’ Lens blog tried an experiment. They asked readers to take a photograph of wherever they were or whatever they were doing at the same moment on May 2 (11 a.m. for us) and send them in. Then they compiled the photos into a worldwide (and extraterrestrial —…
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