Blood and Milk

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http://bloodandmilk.org/2019/09/05/how-to-sign-up-for-the-careers-list/

A few years back, I wrote a newsletter and I loved it. It was dedicated entirely to helping people find and keep jobs in the international development sector. It was priced affordably so I knew t...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2019/09/03/relaunching-the-international-development-careers-list/

I’m just putting this up here to apologize to anyone who still gets email notifications. One of the old user accounts got hacked and posted a bunch of garbage. I’ve deleted all the spam, and ...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2018/07/03/im-so-sorry/

It’s well known at this point that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti. The worst cholera outbreak in recent global health records, in a country that hadn’t seen cholera in its record...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2017/03/16/the-uns-shame-and-haitis-suffering/

  I’m not longer updating Blood & Milk, but you may like my writing on international development over at This World Needs Brave. This week I’ve written about climate change jargon, and how t...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2016/10/07/new-posts-at-this-world-needs-brave/

Blood and Milk readers, you might like my most recent post at This World Needs Brave, in which I go for a bit about poverty and terrorism.

http://bloodandmilk.org/2016/05/06/new-post-at-this-world-needs-brave/

I love this blog and I always will; it’s some of my best work. For a long time I thought I’d start writing here again. I actually reorganized my whole life to give myself time to write. I shi...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2016/04/13/facing-change/

Dear Alanna: I would really like to go to University next year but am still unable to decide what to study.  All i know is that i am interested in social problems such as poverty, poor education...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2015/11/30/career-question-what-do-i-study-in-undergrad/

Observant readers will have noticed I have not updated this blog since February. I have every intention of starting again soon. Really soon. In the meantime, I’ve started writing in other plac...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2015/11/29/where-ive-been/

A friend of mine in Tajikistan used to consistently buy prepackaged foods for her children. Anything specifically marketed to kids caught her attention. She’d buy it – all of it, and feed it ...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2015/02/14/3509/