From the monthly archives:

December 2008

This Living Hand
This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calmed–see here it is–
I [...]

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trust, twitter, and those holiday travel blues

by BethDunn on December 24, 2008

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I have always loved airports, and flying. The whole experience is still glamorous and exciting to me.
Of course, I never travel on the holidays. This might explain a lot.
This morning I read this post by an MIT student about her frustrations with an unnamed airline as she struggled to get home for the holidays. She [...]

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twitter honor roll

by BethDunn on December 22, 2008

Liz Strauss just published a generous, helpful, and useful post (those adjectives tend to follow Liz around wherever she goes, if you haven’t noticed), celebrating the behaviors she admires on Twitter, and the people she admires for embodying those behaviors.
I’ve been thinking recently about how much I need to do a Spread-the-Love post about all [...]

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inbound marketing FTW

by BethDunn on December 9, 2008

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Enjoy the remarkable talent and mojo of the marvelous Rebecca Corliss, of Hubspot.
Follow her on Twitter at @repcor — she is one to keep an eye on, I’m thinking.
While you’re at it, you might keep an eye on @hubspot (and their people) as well…

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dance PhD dance

by BethDunn on December 5, 2008

One of the reasons I love academia is the crazy talented people you come across.  Naturally, everyone has their own area of hyper-specialization, which is what we think describes that person’s particular arena of knowledge and skill.  But academics are complex people, often with complicated, varied and quirky pasts.
Despite what our CVs say about us, [...]

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