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Mar 4, 2021
12 days without power…or water
Five months ago, we were evacuated from our house due to encroaching wildfires. In February, we lost power for 12 days in a row due to an ice storm. During a pandemic. This is just our life now.
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Dec 19, 2020
The 10 best books I read in 2020
What a year. I read (or listened to) far more books this year than last, partly because of the pandemic and partly because I finally made use of the local library’s vast collection of audiobooks.
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Sep 10, 2020
Notes from evacuation
We evacuated our home two days ago, as fires continue to approach our doorstep. We’re in a hotel during a pandemic. The sky is orange and grey. And it feels like it only gets worse now.
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May 29, 2020
Your civic tech work matters
Our democracy relies on engaged citizens working together to solve our biggest problems. As civic technologists, it’s easy to get discouraged about where we’re at as a nation. Which is why it’s imperative that we celebrate our victories.
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May 8, 2020
National service is finally having a moment
The coronavirus pandemic is revealing our numerous societal shortcomings, and some are starting to promote expansion of our national service programs to help fix what’s broken.
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May 7, 2020
Libraries everywhere
Libraries have been on my mind lately. Although the buildings are temporarily closed, libraries continue to demonstrate their indispensable value to society.
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Mar 5, 2020
I deleted tracking from this site. I’m sorry I didn’t do it sooner.
I’ve removed Google Analytics from this site. I should have done it sooner. I’m not interested in exposing your information in order to sate my own curiosity.
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Jan 18, 2020
It’s happened before. Is that supposed to make it easier?
I’m reading the book The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels, a major theme of which is that our country has been through dark periods before, and we have triumphed. But if the dark impulses return over and over again, have we triumphed?
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Jan 8, 2020
Three years since I quit Facebook
In January 2017, I decided I’d had enough of Facebook. I closed my account, and less than a year later, ditched Instagram, too. Here’s what I think about it now.
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Dec 29, 2019
Organizing my reading list by year
Earlier this year, I wrote a post about how to build a simple book list in Jekyll. In this post, I share how to expand the build to organize posts by year and automatically count the number of books for each year.