28 March
Mike E, a new follower, is my cousin. He's a dedicated cat person and volunteers at the local animal shelter. From his stories, I think one could become a true misanthrope seeing the way people treat their animals. He knows about cars and motorcycles and radar and fixing things. Welcome Mike.
Am I being too, too. . . too something in these introductions?
28 March 2009
27 March 2009
27 March 09
I don't know proper blog ettiquite, but I'd like to introduce my followers to each other.
Phil Poon, who joined yesterday is an ophthamologist in Cincinnati. We met in medical school and have been friends since. My strongest memory of Phil is driving to Akron, Ohio from Columbus with my sister Amy to see a Laura Nyro concert. Welcome, Phil.
I call John Byorth my Afghan friend, though he's a true born and bred Montanan. In the recent past he has lived down the hill and across the Stillwater River. We met in 2006 because we had both been in Afganistan. Meeting a Montanan who knew exactly where the Kabul Emergency Hospital was seemed amazing. John is a writer, too, a carpenter, and a hunter. He's presently working on a TV script which I'm very interested in reading.
Ryan Bourquin is Orty's son and my special friend. He lives in New York and has a business representing artists. He is the one man I can buy presents for without having to think.
that other follower is me, Michelle, placed there by pushing the wrong button. What else is new?
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I don't know proper blog ettiquite, but I'd like to introduce my followers to each other.
Phil Poon, who joined yesterday is an ophthamologist in Cincinnati. We met in medical school and have been friends since. My strongest memory of Phil is driving to Akron, Ohio from Columbus with my sister Amy to see a Laura Nyro concert. Welcome, Phil.
I call John Byorth my Afghan friend, though he's a true born and bred Montanan. In the recent past he has lived down the hill and across the Stillwater River. We met in 2006 because we had both been in Afganistan. Meeting a Montanan who knew exactly where the Kabul Emergency Hospital was seemed amazing. John is a writer, too, a carpenter, and a hunter. He's presently working on a TV script which I'm very interested in reading.
Ryan Bourquin is Orty's son and my special friend. He lives in New York and has a business representing artists. He is the one man I can buy presents for without having to think.
that other follower is me, Michelle, placed there by pushing the wrong button. What else is new?
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27 march 09
I always looked at writing a book as an activity with a discrete beginning, middle and end. A project about which you could sit back and say, "finished" and that was that. Like the Jack Nicolson character in As Good As it Gets, theatrically typing "finished' on his manual typewriter and and ripping the page from the roller. Or like the painter dabbing that last significant highlight onto the canvas. It isn't like that at all. Now I have to "push the book".
I'm not sure how to go about sending A Leg to Stand On off into the world. A party, a push on the backside, an exuberant wave, or as the Afghans do with a farewell throw of water? I'm looking at a map like a 16th century map of Africa--the interior empty, except the warning: here live cannibals.
--Michelle
I always looked at writing a book as an activity with a discrete beginning, middle and end. A project about which you could sit back and say, "finished" and that was that. Like the Jack Nicolson character in As Good As it Gets, theatrically typing "finished' on his manual typewriter and and ripping the page from the roller. Or like the painter dabbing that last significant highlight onto the canvas. It isn't like that at all. Now I have to "push the book".
I'm not sure how to go about sending A Leg to Stand On off into the world. A party, a push on the backside, an exuberant wave, or as the Afghans do with a farewell throw of water? I'm looking at a map like a 16th century map of Africa--the interior empty, except the warning: here live cannibals.
--Michelle
24 March 2009
24 march 09
Shows how naive I am. pushed the wrong "button" and now I'm a follower of my own blog. I should hope so.
Found out this morning that A Leg to Stand On has been printed/published and the first copy is on its way via UPS to Montana. Check out http://www.iuniverse.com/. and search by title or author or ISBN number: 0-595-52928-3 for the paperback version or 0-595-62978-4 for the e-version. All is well in the world.
Upcoming trip to Afghanistan is also solidifying. Leave 17 April.
Shows how naive I am. pushed the wrong "button" and now I'm a follower of my own blog. I should hope so.
Found out this morning that A Leg to Stand On has been printed/published and the first copy is on its way via UPS to Montana. Check out http://www.iuniverse.com/. and search by title or author or ISBN number: 0-595-52928-3 for the paperback version or 0-595-62978-4 for the e-version. All is well in the world.
Upcoming trip to Afghanistan is also solidifying. Leave 17 April.
22 March 2009
22 March 09
Ryan said I needed a blog last week and I laughed; John Byorth said the same thing. I didn't laugh so hard. I Googled blog +how to create and here I am.
the purpose of the blog: to inform people about the book I'm publishing: A Leg to Stand On, ISBN # 0-595-52928-3. It will be available from www.iuniverse.com in the very near future. Will let you know the exact date. More about the book in the next couple of days, when I see that this actually gets out into the blogosphere and I lose my fear.
The other reason for the blog is to communicate with people who are studying, working through, or are interested in the same problems that interest me: the state of humanitarianism in the world, the social, political and medical problems facing Africa and Afghanistan, how does an orthopaedic surgeon face the orthopaedic problems in the developing world,. I'll be working in Afghanistan in a few weeks and want to report back about what I see for those who are interested.
--Michelle
Ryan said I needed a blog last week and I laughed; John Byorth said the same thing. I didn't laugh so hard. I Googled blog +how to create and here I am.
the purpose of the blog: to inform people about the book I'm publishing: A Leg to Stand On, ISBN # 0-595-52928-3. It will be available from www.iuniverse.com in the very near future. Will let you know the exact date. More about the book in the next couple of days, when I see that this actually gets out into the blogosphere and I lose my fear.
The other reason for the blog is to communicate with people who are studying, working through, or are interested in the same problems that interest me: the state of humanitarianism in the world, the social, political and medical problems facing Africa and Afghanistan, how does an orthopaedic surgeon face the orthopaedic problems in the developing world,. I'll be working in Afghanistan in a few weeks and want to report back about what I see for those who are interested.
--Michelle
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