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It Is Time For a Change. A Rededication.

It Is Time For a Change.  A Rededication.

I have lived the last six years of my professional life trying to serve two masters, pursue two paths, to eat my cake and still have it. I’ve been advised many times this is a fool’s errand, that it will

jamie June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 personal, web design No Comments Read more

Preventing the next Orlando — the Cumulative Act Effect

Experts in risk analysis have a model they use to describe the dynamics of disasters and our efforts to prevent them.  It’s called the cumulative act effect, or more frequently (and popularly) the Swiss cheese model.  In short, it imagines

jamie June 14, 2016 personal, political No Comments Read more

Politics and Wonderland

Politics and Wonderland

With election season in full swing, the word “caucus” has become ubiquitous in the news.  I first learned the word when I read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, many, many years ago. ‘What I was going to say,’ said the Dodo in

jamie February 23, 2016 just for fun, personal, political, word of the day No Comments Read more

Give Blood, Save Life. Be Mad!

The very first time I donated blood (right after my 18th birthday), one of the other donors arrived wearing a sweatshirt with “Dracula” emblazoned on the front.  (I think it was the logo from the 1979 movie starring Frank Langella,

jamie July 15, 2015 giving back, just for fun, personal No Comments Read more

First World Trade Center Bombing — an “It Was 20 Years Ago Today” text post

[Posted at the “It Was 20 Years Ago Today” site (http://20yearsago.libsyn.com), the Starlight Teahouse message board (www.starlightteahouse.com), and my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/Sailbourne).] Twenty years ago today, a truck bomb exploded in the underground garage of the North Tower of the

jamie February 26, 2013 20YearsAgo podcast, personal No Comments Read more

Farewell to the Friend I Never Met

I lost a friend this week. She was a friend I had never met, and in fact I didn’t even know what she looked like – until I got the letter announcing her death. But nevertheless, Patt Griffin was a

jamie April 5, 2012 personal 1 Comment Read more

One Person’s Intractable Dandruff Is Another’s Golden Opportunity

… or, is that price gouging on the Internet or American Capitalism at its finest? I have very stubborn dandruff. For a while, tea tree oil shampoo (a recommendation from a stylist) was enough to deal with it.  Then I

jamie July 11, 2011 personal No Comments Read more

3s of Me for 2/2011

Do if you want, no big deal. (All references to tagging apply to the echo of this post in Facebook Notes.) If you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with the 3’s of YOU. At the end,

jamie March 1, 2011 just for fun, personal No Comments Read more

Beliefs and Beginnings

I love history. I consider myself an amateur historian — that’s what the It Was 20 Years Ago Today podcast is all about. I listen to a few podcasts that have to do with history; one is the remarkable series

jamie October 6, 2010 personal, writing No Comments Read more

New Year, New Plans

It is the beginning of a new year, the beginning of a new decade (as some reckon it), and a shade over five months since I posted anything here.  I wasn’t going to make a New Year’s resolution (having been

jamie January 14, 2010 announcements, personal No Comments Read more
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  • It Is Time For a Change. A Rededication.
    I have lived the last six years of my professional life trying to serve two masters, pursue two paths, to eat my cake and still have it. I’ve been advised many times this is a fool’s errand, that it will never work, that it is a waste of time and energy. And yet, I have
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      This is the final Monday Meme in the series.  I’m shifting my focus to a more fully realized webcomic series, which I call Musings In Grayscale.  The first comic in the series will be published October 15 and future installments will appear twice a month, on the 1st and 15th. Thanks for sharing this
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    Monday Meme #50 — Harry Potter
    My penultimate Monday Meme honors the way the whole Harry Potter phenomenon got started: the opening line of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, published just 20 years ago.

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