A few weeks ago, a friend forwarded an email (twice forwarded already) originally written from the desk of the administrator of the California Disaster Healthcare Volunteers. What’s the DHV? DHV is a program that registers and credentials health professionals who may wish to volunteer during disaster including doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, dentists, mental health practitioners,…
Author: Earshot Presents
02/24/2021: Grocery Outlet and the thrill of the bargain
I can remember discovering the Grocery Outlet when I first arrived to California in 2009. Being as “cash sensitive” as I was, it was always exciting to find a premium product at a deeply reduced price. If one were to really drill down, there’s probably a lot of psychology that could correlate one’s interest in…
02/23/2021: seasonal warmth
There’s no reason to believe that winter’s over, especially when we see what’s going on with the extreme weather in Texas. Soon enough, Northern Californians will be back in our layers and condensation will be back on the windows. For these few days, though, there’s been a touch of spring–and even summer–to remind us of…
02/22/2021: imissmybar.com
Throughout the pandemic, people have been finding such creative and inspirational ways to bring our old lives into our current reality. Yet another beautiful example is imissmybar.com, a simple single-page website that allows the visitor to create their own mix of noise. More specifically, the ambiance of a bar. Seven sliders control the volume of…
02/19/2021: constant curiosity
Levi and Naomi will be 3 in a couple months and they are both entering into the Why phase, where almost everything out of their mouths is a question, and almost every question is a variation of “why“. Inverted statements of observation become interrogatives like “Daddy, you’re making oatmeal, Daddy?” and “Why are you making…