Landing in Miami…

Yes, it’s true I am back in the good old U.S.A. It’s been a while since I’ve been home, but my dwindling savings account demands that I take advantage of my mom’s offer of rent free living. After six months in the UK, and many flights, I forgot how truly awful flying in the US [...]

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Climate change denial…

As an organisation that works in post-disaster contexts we’re faced with the results of climate change constantly. More severe and frequent hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and other weather related disasters are threatening to overwhelm disaster response organisations. The threat is so severe that the UN has focused its Human Development Report on the issue. The evidence [...]

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A good old fashioned rant

If you had come to me a year ago and asked me “Emma, do you think starting a disaster response charity could ever be boring?” I would have said, “What a silly question! Of course not!” And I would have been wrong. Brace yourself for some truly fascinating information on what it means to register [...]

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Fear with just a dash of jealousy

Continuing my love affair with Stumble, I found a great article on exactly the kind of travel that inspired me to go to South America. In a very Rolf Potts way, the author, Tim Patterson, reminds us how much shit (and it really is shit) we accumulate when we live at home. I remember clearing [...]

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Welcome to the Blog of the World’s Least Computer Savy Media and Marketing Director

When I visit other peoples’ blogs, they have all these lovely buttons next to their posts. They even have pictures in their side bars! And I thought, how lovely, I too shall have pictures in my side bar. I have a Flikr account, I see a Flikr Widget. All will be well. Well… not really. [...]

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Someone Else Said it Better Than I Ever Could…

A friend of mine recently sent me a disturbing email after she had a very unfriendly debate regrading gay marriage with a lost resident of the bible belt in a bar in New York. What was said in the debate is too shameful to repeat, so I won’t. Originally, I was going to write a [...]

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Better Late Than Never?

There’s (finally) a push to prosecute Bush and all his cohorts for their crimes in office. Now, many of us Americans have been saying for years that if we can prosecute Clinton for lying about getting a blow job and find a new use for a cigar, we ought to be able to punish Bush [...]

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TMI

Usually, Too much information (TMI) refers to those who won’t stop telling you about their favorite sexual position or their father’s hemorrhoid problem. I like to think of it as a breakdown in that filter that should exist between the brain and the mouth. But tonight, I find my head spinning from a totally different [...]

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