Peabody-award winning doofus. melodykramer@gmail.com
ac, pocomoke city md
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1) This is not advice 2) Remind me never to work for you, AC of Pocomoke City, MD.
Anonymous
We want to hear from women: What’s your note to self – a piece of advice that’s helped you at work? Share your advice at http://she-works.tumblr.com
Uh. I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is not the world’s best metric.
Melody Kramer, Philadelphia PA
We want to hear from women: What’s your note to self – a piece of advice that’s helped you at work? Share your advice at http://she-works.tumblr.com
Like my grandmother always said…#YOLO, Bubbeleh.
Melody Kramer, Philadelphia PA
We want to hear from women: What’s your note to self – a piece of advice that’s helped you at work? Share your advice at http://she-works.tumblr.com
Okay. I couldn’t help myself.
CBH, Columbus, OH
We want to hear from women: What’s your note to self – a piece of advice that’s helped you at work? Share your advice at http://she-works.tumblr.com
I absolutely love this project. My advice? If you have a kickass mentor or boss, take in absolutely everything you can from her.
Photo by Luis Marden.
From “Reaching for the Moon,” National Geographic, February, 1959.
Messages to the moon are scrawled on the nose of Pioneer II. This man, standing on the gantry’s top stage some two hours before firing, writes his name on the protective shroud at the tip of the 88-foot rocket. Others scribbled “Good luck,” and “Hello, moon.”
Accepted a gig at National Geographic Magazine. I’ll be editing and writing for their magazine and website — and helping with some digital projects. I’m really excited to try a) a different medium b) a new publication and c) a new city.
Smiling young woman holds chick above chicken-filled incubator drawer in Arkansas, July 1944.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic
This is a living arrangement where you definitely want to be in the top drawer.
Servicewomen read National Geographic Magazine at a beauty parlor in Illinois.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic
Thank you to Claire for pointing out this amazing blog.
1. Be Kind. If this is the one thing I manage to do, I’ve done enough. Kindness may seem like a personality trait, but I think of it more as a habitual spiritual practice. Being kind has taught me that simple, seemingly insignificant human interactions can be profound. It has opened people and their stories to me. And, perhaps most important to my work, being kind has taught me that I know far less than I think I do. Always. 2. Love What You Do. This is not a passive thing, or a happenstance of trying to do what you love. It is a proactive, daily decision to nurture and seek satisfaction in the work I am doing. I think of it like marriage: sometimes it’s easy and simple. Sometimes it’s a daily, grinding decision to love. And sometimes, when you can’t do it any more, the last act of love is walking away. 3. Keep Your Brain Spongy. This is the fun part. I’m a big believer in feeding curiosity, and offering my subconscious mind a cornucopia of ideas. I read history, literature, and ancient Chinese murder mysteries. I feed the birds, train my ear to identify distinct birdsong, and try to learn the differences between sparrow species (almost all are the same buffy, brown color). I study physics, the latest developments in the modeling of protein-folding, and the genetic underpinnings of personality. I dig big holes in the yard, play and talk with animals, and right now I’m thinking about buying a metal detector. I am never bored. 4. Do the Next, Most Interesting Thing. This is a corollary of keeping your brain spongy, but it requires a very loose hold on one’s life-plans. In fact, I do very little life-planning at all; for better or worse, no career path can hold my attention for very long. So when people ask me how I became an NPR correspondent at such a young age, (or for that matter, how I ended up with a bit part in a Mexican telenovela) my best answer is that I didn’t really mean to. I just did a long series of the next, most interesting things. It’s kind of an informed version of winging-it.
— Andrea Seabrook’s personal rules are awesome.
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: ‘When will I be blown up?’ I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
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WNYC’s Data News Team mined the city’s dog license database to map, list and make a game out of the Dogs of NYC.
Note to self: Don’t name future pet Lola, Lulu, Lucy, or Princess.
Going to see Mika tonight at Union Transfer.
And every year, public radio listeners have come to expect the Gisselbecks’ unusual premium donations during MTPR’s annual Spring Pledge Week. Usually, the couple will give goats to people who donate a certain amount of cash to the fundraiser – this year, it will be three, Evelyn said – but they often also provide goat mulch, goat compost, goat cheese, goat jerky and goat milk.
— Best Pledge Premium ever: goats.
you have a great smile. the world should see it
but that’s fine
long live sweatpants
i will tell you this
you seem 80,000 lbs lighter since you made this decision. for this, i am thrilled for you.
— jl on radio, tv, life, happiness.
