Tag: Half

My efforts in March have been weak by my standards. The month started with our amazing spring break vacation to Florida. Once we returned, it was side hustle “catch-up” time and playoff time for both of my kid’s hockey teams. I coach both of them, so it’s been busy! ...

Just last week, a colleague mentioned that while he does a lot of study design these days, he no longer does much data analysis. His main reason was that 80% of the work in data analysis is preparing the data for analysis. Data preparation is s-l-o-w and he found that few colleagues and...

Inthe months before I contacted my dad to alert him of my existence, I’d begun paying attention to the birds that frequented my backyard garden. By that time, my husband and I had lived in our 1920's butter-yellow house in Seattle for a few years already, but this was the first year tha...

Growing up as the child of an interracial and interfaith marriage in the early 1990s and 2000s, there weren’t a lot of resources available to help me navigate those dynamics. It was a time where we were still promoting “color-blind” as our best anti-racist efforts. And so at that t...

Over a dozen European countries require pedestrians wear reflectors at night. When implemented, statistics universally show a 30–50% reduction in pedestrian fatalities. There are certain statistical constants in human behavior. Worldwide, pretty much 75% of pedestrian traffic deaths occur a...

She sits in a small hut somewhere in Nepal’s rugged mountain world, hiding from the scorching April sun. A slender woman with matted hair. A single streak peeks out from underneath her battered towel, which she has wrapped around her head like a majestic turban. Next to her on the dusty flo...

The sun sat low when we entered Isfahan, casting a warm yellow light. We stopped at a spot along the bank of the Zayandeh River, a waterway that bisects the city. “Cross that bridge and take your time. I will drive around and meet you on the other side,” our guide shouted and drove of...