Actuary with Milliman, Inc. specializing in disability and group life insurance. Reader, writer, poet and runner.
Portland, ME
Joined October 2011
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Also the tall bookshelf in my home office....
"There's only a handful of poetry libraries in the world, and the Poetry Foundation’s sprawling 30,000-volume library in Chicago is one of the most impressive collections."
#BookBucketList
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The big day is this THURSDAY! We have a public hearing on our bill to create a Paid Family and Medical Leave program here in Maine. Rep Cloutier & I have spent 2 years collaborating with business owners, employees, and community leaders to build a PFML program that works for ME.
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I really, really love Group B. Fond memories of Nana's lemon sorbet served in a giant lemon. #WorldCup of ice cream flavours is giving me huge joy so please keep retweeting. For those coming at me with rules questions, format can be sorbet or ice cream. Go! #icecream #heatwave
21%Lemon
18%Stracciatella
46%Raspberry ripple
15%Coconut
190 votes • Final resultsRecommended reading, especially for my Cleveland friends. A great memoir of a struggling English major who takes a job in a Cleveland steel mill. I'd driven past the mill 1,000 times on I-71. Here, finally, is a chance to see inside. @skrticx @oneofmanymikes @derfbackderf
Looking for some humorous reading? Or a crime novel? Or maybe just something starring an #actuary? Well, you're in luck. Here's my review of two Finnish novels by @antti_tuomainen that fit all those criteria.
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Looking for some humorous reading? Or a crime novel? Or maybe just something starring an #actuary? Well, you're in luck. Here's my review of two Finnish novels that fit all those criteria. @Actuary_Dot_Org
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C'mon, fellow actuaries. 2,000 years isn't 20 decades. It's 200 decades, or 20 centuries. Not sure if that's a math lesson or a Latin lesson.
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I've written a few essays about Wallace Stevens, and his careers in insurance and poetry. Here's a link to my review of two interesting books about this brilliant and fascinating poet. (Download the pdf to read it).
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Poets have strange biographies almost as a rule, but Wallace Stevens' stands out. He worked his entire life as an insurance executive, kept his personal life completely out of his poetry, and didn't publish his first book until he was 44. youtu.be/f2Djdm_Ykww
Sometime I forget just how beautiful numbers can be. Here’s a wonderful example.
Great sports feature article. And not only because it contains the phrase “jerk filter”. nytimes.com/2022/12/06/magaz…
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Organ Donation and Transplants During Major US Motorcycle Rallies ja.ma/3gMIjFt via @JAMAInternalMed part of @JAMANetwork
When this site disappears you can find me in the phone book. Now let me explain what a phone is. And what a book is....
Biology seems oddly out of place here.
The @TatteredCover bookshops at the Denver airport aren’t that big, but twice this year I’ve walked in and immediately found a book I hadn’t been able to find anywhere else. What sorcery is this?
Fascinating difference between what voters want and what legislators act on. It passed by ballot initiative in Maine and was still blocked by then Gov Paul LePage. Probably a big factor in his worse-than-expected loss yesterday to Janet Mills.
