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• Always Say Yes to Grad Students: an Interview About Virtual Teams

  

  Every so often in the past gazillion years, a graduate student comes along, one who's working on a master's or doctorate around virtual/remote/distribution... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 BUSINESS

• "The Successful Virtual Office in 30 Minutes"

  

  Ian Lamont’s “In 30 Minutes” series demystifies and simplifies topics that leave non-techies scratching their heads for insight, if not plain old comprehension. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 BUSINESS

• Beef and Barley Soup, Encore

  "Romertopf Chicken (cooked in a clay pot)", a 2008 post, prompted an unexpected comment from an unknown reader last week, leading to her requesting more recipes. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 BUSINESS

• Cooling It at Conglomerate Creek

  

  Conglomerate Creek, Vic., Australia, January 3, 2015—By some measure, it's my mother's 104th birthday but in my now it's only January 2 in Brooklyn where she wa... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2015 BUSINESS

• A Mob of Skips

  

  Treetop Campsite, Ripples Creek, Vic, Australia (GMT+14, 22 December 2014)—A couple of hours north of Melbourne, certainly not more, sits this Boy Scout camp,... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2014 BUSINESS

• "O Night Divine on the Cancer Unit"

  Robin Schoenthaler is a radiation oncologist at a hospital outside Boston. We met in the way friends often do nowadays, online, through a women's writers... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 BUSINESS

• Medal of Freedom for the Freedom Fighters 50 Years Later

  

  Next Monday, November 24, the three young men murdered by the KKK in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, will receive the Medal of Freedom from President Obama at... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2014 BUSINESS

• "New York Family Trades Urban Jungle for Outback Adventure"

  

  Nearly eight years ago, Daughter #1, Miranda Stamps, and her husband, Jay Albany, set off on a six-month trip to Asia. Although they were both gainfully employe... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 BUSINESS

• Ray, Not Tom, but What a Pair #clickandclack

  

  Seven years after Katrina, I traveled to New Orleans with a group of volunteers to put hammer to nail at a house on the aptly named Flood Street. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 BUSINESS

• On the 25th Anniversary of My Mother's Death...

  

  Here, from seven years ago, a repost with the letter she left for her funeral. And a just-discovered Pottstown Mercury news item from Oct 30, 1945, announcing... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2014 BUSINESS

• Dani Menkin's "Is It You?" Which Might Be Me--or You

  

  A rainy day in Montreal on our way elsewhere, a perusal of great things to do in this lovely ville, and we notice The Montreal World Film Festival, go through... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2014 BUSINESS

• Another Stop on the Writer's Blog Tour

  

  From Miles from Brooklyn (see below) Accepting the baton toss from Avra Wing’s thoughtful post on the continuing writer’s blog tour to whom I bow in thanks for... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2014 BUSINESS

• "Charting Culture"

  The fad to chart massive amounts of data often leaves me (and others) shrugging. Cool pictures but... This one is original -- charting the migration of... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2014 BUSINESS

• The Branches of Coincidence During the "anniversary"

  

  Yesterday marked three years since Jeff died, which we spent together, indulging in massages, and eating his favorite meal. "You're here because it's Dadpa's... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 BUSINESS

• Best Fried Chicken in Boston? Try Back Bay Station

  

  Vegetarians, avert eyes and try this post. Or this one. Or even this. But if you're a flexitarian, then I bet you like fried chicken as much as me. Love it. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2014 BUSINESS

• Maya, Who Lived in Stamps, Arkansas

  

  When people die, their good can inflate to fill the sky, fill the screens, and so they are everywhere for a few days. Which is how we've been learning so much... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 BUSINESS

• General Shinseki, a Wargame, and the Networks of Hierarchy

  

  Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is in the news and it's not the first time he's been center stage. Students of the Iraq War may recall that at the star... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 BUSINESS

• This American Ira #thisamericanlife

  

  Photo via Paramount Theatre site with thanks Of Vermont's many attributes, its theaters are venues for first-rate performers. So it was that on Saturday night w... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 BUSINESS

• Wheat House is on the Market and the Boston Globe Likes It

  

  The Samuel Wheat House399 Waltham Street, West Newton, MA In about two weeks' time, my house will look like this again. The peonies, which I transplanted from... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 BUSINESS

• Leading Ourselves Via "the Lattice"

  

  June Holley, whose insights and methods for establishing and growing networks are in a class of their own, points today to Phanish Puranam's post on the INSEAD... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2014 BUSINESS