Now I’m on to the Poland part of my two weeks, so I haven’t had time to reflect on the 7 day silent retreat. I did cheat a bit. I wrote 3 poems. The Notice Board Clean, white messenger. Notice board, like an iPhone. Addictive power? Its rare, precious offerings. For me? Nope. Next time. [...]
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Parental Leave Around the World
(Click to enlarge) Since living in the US, I’ve noticed that although many Americans know that parental leave sucks here, they don’t realize just how bad they’ve got it. Media reports often compare the US just to Sweden or Germany and all social services are better there, so it’s hardly a fair comparison. What people [...]
Posted by Shubha on March 19, 2012
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Parental Leave Around the World – data
To examine parental leave around the world, I needed a way to rank and compare countries for creating my graph. I calculated the equivalent paid days of work and ranked them based on this value. For unpaid days, I pretended there was a 1% of income pay, since unpaid days needed to count for something [...]
Posted by Shubha on March 19, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1668
Full House / Family Matters mashup
You know you’ve had those moments where you try to sing the Full House theme song and realize you’re actually singing Family Matters? Well we made a mash-up of the two theme songs!! It’s beautiful!!!
Posted by Shubha on November 20, 2011
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Melted crayon art
Preethi found this awesome crayon craft thing in which you melt crayons to create art… So we decided to make our own when I was home for Canadian Thanksgiving. The key difference from everything we saw, and what we wanted to do, is we didn’t want to keep the crayons on our finished product. It [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 17, 2011
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Letting go, not dropping
The best part about finally being settled into an apartment, and not getting constant blood tests due to blood clots, is being able to settle into a meditation community-routine. I started going a couple of weeks ago, and the very first night I went there was a substitute teacher. On an aside, people have often [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 25, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1444
Jack Layton
The leader of Canada’s opposition party, the NDP, passed away of cancer. If you’ll remember, this past year the NDP led by Layton historically destroyed the Liberal party and received a higher percentage of votes than they ever had (mostly from Quebec). He wrote this beautiful final letter once he realized he may not survive. [...]
Posted by Shubha on August 22, 2011
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Why Minneapolis is so great
As I leave Minneapolis, and many people not from here surmise that I must be happy to leave, I shout a resounding “No!” Well I’m happy to go to New York, but Minneapolis is a really great city! So here are some of my favorite pictures from the past year and a half to entice [...]
Posted by Shubha on July 23, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1390
On Refugees and People Living in Conflict (An audio doc by me)
Click play… Or download… Michael Wessells on Refugees and Children in Conflict ————————————————————————————— A few years ago I interviewed Professor Michael Wessells (Professor at Columbia University in the Program on Forced Migration and Health) with my classmate Jake about refugees and his experience working with adults and children in conflict zones in West Africa. It [...]
Posted by Shubha on June 14, 2011
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The Importance of Things – Eddie the Bear
The 30 thing hits you in the most unexpected ways. As Unny pointed out, you feel like you should be a legitimate adult now. After all, I’m now equally close to being 40 as I am to 20. And other people who are 30 are CEOs.. or have 7 kids. I questioned the continued importance [...]
Posted by Shubha on May 26, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1261