http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand life after college Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:22:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, December was a busy month for Charity and I, what with the holidays, finals, and the like, but I think we're back! Today I stumbled upon a really interesting website, named, aptly enough, Stumble Upon. I found a really interesting site that immediately made me think of Charity, right ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2010/01/04/happy-new-year/ I meant to post this on Saturday, but my upgrade to Windows 7 didn't go quite as planned and I ended up spending the weekend involuntarily offline. However, I still want to share the easy and (relatively) quick recipe that I made for my friends on Friday night. There are ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2009/11/09/recipe-stuffed-steak/ It's 6pm.  The phone rings, and you answer as you usually do.  Immediately the caller greets you and launches into an urgent plea for help: children are dying of hunger, women are dying of breast cancer, or an oppressed minority group needs your support. "Can we count on your donation?" the ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2009/11/06/phone-solicitations/ There I am, mindlessly reading over my homework assignment for Evidence, when I come across this little gem of a fact: Priests* are exempt from Maryland's child abuse reporting requirement as to confidential confessors make by the perpetrator, victim, or anyone else with knowledge. Now, my friend thought that this meant something ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2009/11/05/mandatory-reporting-of-child-abuse-except-for-priests/ Dan Pallotta, the author of Uncharitable, posits in an article on The Daily Beast that non-profits face - among other things - trouble due to "gendering".  It's a sometimes opaque article, and Pallotta is talking mostly to insiders - people who work in the world of NPOs. Pallotta expects, implicitly, that ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2009/11/04/the-non-profit-as-female/ Today was release day for Book 3 of the Allie Beckstrom series by Devon Monk. In preparation for this happy day, last Tuesday and the Tuesday before that I, I reviewed book one, MAGIC TO THE BONE, and book two, MAGIC IN THE BLOOD. I'm not going to talk too ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2009/11/03/magic-in-the-shadows-devon-monk-review/ Sometimes not-for-profit organizations have an empty position that needs to be filled immediately, but they have trouble finding a candidate.  Other times, the Board of Directors (sometimes called the Board of Trustees) wants an outside perspective on something.  When either of these situations occurs, the Non-Profit Organization (NPO) will often ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2009/11/02/npo-consultants/ The decision for me to buy a Kindle was a difficult one. I've always taken pride in my frugality, and the Kindle isn't cheap. I love to read, though, and I kept hearing such good things about e-books and the Kindle, so I sat down and convinced myself that, with ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2009/11/01/amazon-kindle-review/ When I started working an honest-to-goodness full time job, I bought lunch - a lot.  I ate at the on-site dining room or went out to nearby delis and restaurants for a bite to eat.  Eventually, however, that wore off.  I couldn't afford, and didn't want to spend, $30+ per ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2009/10/31/lunch-at-work/ Like I explained in the Noir and Urban Fantasy blog, I'm a member of the Prose Challenge livejournal community. Challenge 032 was to create a piece of prose about hating someone you love. The prompt immediately reminded me of IRON KISSED by Patricia Briggs, where Mercy is tricked into drinking from ... http://vestalflame.info/hope-on-remand/2009/10/30/loving-someone-you-hate/