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http://bloodandmilk.org/2019/09/05/how-to-sign-up-for-the-careers-list/
I’m just putting this up here to apologize to anyone who still gets email notifications. One of the old user accounts got hacked and posted a bunch of garbage. I’ve deleted all the spam, and ...
I’m not longer updating Blood & Milk, but you may like my writing on international development over at This World Needs Brave. This week I’ve written about climate change jargon, and how t...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2016/10/07/new-posts-at-this-world-needs-brave/
Blood and Milk readers, you might like my most recent post at This World Needs Brave, in which I go for a bit about poverty and terrorism.
http://bloodandmilk.org/2016/05/06/new-post-at-this-world-needs-brave/
I love this blog and I always will; it’s some of my best work. For a long time I thought I’d start writing here again. I actually reorganized my whole life to give myself time to write. I shi...
Some of you may have noticed I started using all my own pictures in this blog a while ago. I pull them from my Instagram, which is reasonably active. I have found taking pictures helps me think i...
All the cool kids have already written about this, but there’s a fun new book out on being an expat. It’s called Expat Etiquette: How to Look Good in Bad Places, and it was written by Michael...
Americans are weirdly private people. Nearly every other culture I’ve experienced involved sharing more personal information with strangers than your average American wants to provide. It used ...
1. Jargon is generally accused of being 1) a sign of fuzzy thinking and 2) a tool for oppression and exclusion. Sometimes even by me. It has struck me lately, though, that jargon is also a sign o...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2014/02/09/blog-posts-i-will-apparently-never-write/
I moved to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan a little more than two months ago. It’s always hard to start a new posting in the winter, but I have been coming here on and off since 2001. I am very pleased ...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2014/02/05/five-fast-facts-about-bishkek/