Week in READ-view is a post I have posted on Sundays telling you what I have been up to this week and what I read or am reading. The Sunday Post is a meme sponsored by the awesome Kimba @Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, post a recap of the past week, s...
Four days later I returned. I had already rented a place to stay the day after Ian that was further inland and had power and internet. Driving back, the closer I got, the worse the damage. Traffic lights were out. Most gas stations were still closed. Trees were down and structure after...
Then I had some personal things happen that made me think. My dad died unexpectedly in July 2015 and I lost my first patient at work two days before Christmas of the same year. Both of these things got me thinking about life and what’s important. I think I would’ve eventually put t...
You look at the world, at politics, economics, climate change, and you think, it’s all so big and so hopeless and so utterly, utterly fucked that there’s just no point in anything… Nevertheless. Insert platitudinous inspirational meme here. We can’t go on. We go on. Anyway. Did...
Suffice to say – plus ca change plus c’est la meme chose. We learn about both rumtopfs and rumtops and have a brilliant few days together before we head off again south in forty mile winds until reaching said goat farm. France Passion is an initiative whereby farmers, vineyard owners ...
The online fridge has become a meme for just how wrong you can get it (and keep getting it) if you don’t do proper studies to really understand a market. It also demonstrates how shiny new things can blind your common sense. Really, how often does the average person buy a new ...
The above tweets (and meme) were published as part of a larger social problem of what to do about the proliferation of misinformation. These tweets have many embedded and interrelated arguments. I’m going to focus on just one of these arguments, namely, that “censorship undermines media tru...
A beautiful woman who’s convinced she is ugly, finds herself in the worst situation, her picture is used in a popular meme, and the whole world is judging her appearance. An idealistic vegan who wants everyone to stop eating meat, finds himself in the worst situation, he falls in love ...
On the Internet these days, you’ve probably seen the popular meme of the Olympian, Fu Yuanhui, who “calls upon all her superhuman strength” when she swims. But we all know that it’s not superhuman strength; it’s grit. The road to digital transformation is also long and hard, so...
What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila fromBook Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at theBook Date.And here we are!