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A Year of Births
2010 was a year of many births including a new job at Design that Matters creating products to benefit the poor in the developing world and my baby son. For most of the year, I guided the design of a...
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The Year of New Energy
Coal Miner and the Mountains. Photo by R.L. Mullins. 2010 has been a year of realization, realization there is more to life than destroying my health and wasting my potential in the darkness of a coal...
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Although well past the 2000 mark, this year feels like a century-esque turning point for Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) and our grassroots work in Kentucky. Our members across the state are...
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The Year That Went By In A Blur
Time seems to be moving rapidly this year. When not rushing to meet class deadlines, I’ve been rushing to Moscow in preparation for a study of public green space in Russian cities. The people I’ve met...
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The Year of CoLab Radio
I had a lot of ideas for this post. I could have legitimately framed my 2010 as the year of Amtrak, the year of travel, or the year of learning how to stick with things that are hard. But really,...
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The Year of United Nations, Polis and CoLab Radio
Image courtesy of NASA. Despite that the United Nations and Polis entered in my life towards the end of 2009, I feel that they are essentially part of 2010. The United Nations, Polis and CoLab Radio...
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Putting the Year in Perspective
As I tried to get a Top Ten list ready for the New Year I could not find the motivation. We have had some moments that make great stories but as a whole they amount to… angry politics, lying husbands...
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The Year that Stress Gave Way to Joy
2010 was a stressful year. I juggled work, grad school, and motherhood. But it was the amazing things happening in the tiny pockets around all of the things that “needed to get done” that ultimately...
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The Year I Found Urban Planning
or: A New Framework, New Ways of Envisioning the City (and a little fun) 2010 will go down in my personal history book as the year I knew I wanted to be involved in the world of planning. As a...
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My friend’s Raúl (Spain) and Dirk (Germany) play La Bamba (pilgrim style) in the Galician forest the day before we reach Santiago de Compostela. 2010 marked the end of a journey — as well as the...
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