Monthly Archives: February 2009

Consulting as a Subversive Activity—Part II

By Linda | February 27, 2009

Consultants are people who offer experience, expertise, and insights into a specific problem that may be either new territory or muddled findings for a group that is seeking direction and/or confirmation. Being a consultant is a lot of fun, having done my fair share when I was more involved nationally in quality assurance and health [...]

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Mystery Solved!

By Linda | February 26, 2009

At 5:29 a.m. Mr. Tom Halleck, former reporter for the UB student newspaper, The Spectrum, e-mailed me with his response to my query about his attendance at the meeting. Indeed, he said it was he who was at the meeting. But he denied that he specifically identified himself as a reporter for The Spectrum. He [...]

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Diversion from Subversion?

By Linda | February 25, 2009

Mystery and intrigue in the halls of higher education! Oh, how I savor the taste of a mystery not solved, whether it is the meaning of data analyzed to reveal possibly scandalous secrets or the identity of a missing young man, perhaps posing as a newspaper reporter. Let me explain.
Last Friday’s meeting (see previous posting [...]

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Consulting as a Subversive Activity—Part 1

By Linda | February 23, 2009

When I was preparing my remarks for the Committee on Women of the Buffalo Chapter of the Union of University Professionals, I had no idea that even before I began to speak, the controversy had begun! And as could be predicted, the rest of the meeting was filled with as much intrigue as any two [...]

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Space and Time

By Linda | February 19, 2009

For many years my very small home office was a place to which I would retreat to get my work done in the time when no one else would be clamoring for my attention. In this 7 ½ by 11 foot “cozy” space, I could organize my scientific data, read journal articles, participate in conference [...]

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Too Close To Home

By Linda | February 16, 2009

It started out as a quiet Friday morning. I was supposed to sleep in, which meant ignoring the 5:45 a.m. alarm and waiting for the 6 a.m. follow up blare of the radio before I made up my mind to get out of bed or not. Of course, because I could sleep in, I didn’t. [...]

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Women of Valor—Unsung Heroines

By Linda | February 13, 2009

Last night I went out to dinner with a friend. We have known each other for 23 years. We met over our two infant children who were still in strollers and still full of promise. Since they hadn’t yet begun to talk or walk, we could only imagine the wonderfully full lives ahead for them. [...]

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Constancy and Change

By Linda | February 7, 2009

Finally it’s Friday. I am not on call this weekend. My husband and I are home unusually early. Between the snatches of news we have not exchanged yet this week, he reads the newspapers and I sit and type this blog entry. My husband has made a fire in the one “real” wood-burning fireplace in [...]

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I Made the News Today, Oh Boy!

By Linda | February 5, 2009

Dateline: February 3, 2009. Headline: “Why Ledbetter Isn’t Enough”. Publication: the online website of The American Prospect, a monthly print publication with an active website. Journalist: Emily Douglas.
When the National Women’s Law Center highlighted my case as one of the examples of the impact of the Ledbetter case in its press release last week, I [...]

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The Busy Women’s Book Club

By Linda | February 2, 2009

Confession: I am a book-aholic. Classics, best sellers, self-help books, biographies, mysteries, essays on religion/politics/gender studies, and novels of all kinds. I also try to keep up on 6 medical journals and 4 or 5 different print magazines every month. Typically I have two or three different reads going on at the same time. I [...]

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