I have to admit I was nervous. I mean she is funny. Funny funny. The kind of funny where jokes fly out of her mouth effortlessly and often while you’re left thinking, “I have no witty comeback for that. So I will just listen and enjoy. Hope she doesn’t expect me to talk or anything.”…Continue Reading
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Reporting from the Most Perfect Place in the Universe
Somebody call the cops! The weather is amazing! It’s madness…MADNESS I tell you! After moving from the midwest to Southern California, my family would often lament the lack of “serious” news in San Diego. Especially when it came to the weather. We know it’s drizzling, San Diegans. But SUCK IT UP. It’s not…Continue Reading
Getting Your Mojo Back: A Step by Step Guide
Go here! No, there! I said, here! Jump. Jump harder! Not that hard! Think, think, think. Get that brain going! Let the thoughts flow in, flow out. Too much flow! Stuff going in wily nily. Filter the fluff! Filter it! You’re a Brita! Have some caffeine. Take…Continue Reading
The Phantom
Do you know how you walk into a high-end store sometimes and get attitude from the salesperson? And you think: Aren’t I in essence paying your salary because if it weren’t for people like me you wouldn’t sell stuff? And you also might possibly entertain the notion that the salesperson lives with (a) their parents…Continue Reading
The BlogHer Recap from Someone Who is Typically Recap-Repellant
BlogHer. For years, YEARS, I’ve heard people speak of it. I remember reading recaps — albeit less of them than this year — from 2001 on, when it seemed like only Dooce and her friends attended the conference. I’ve long been fascinated by what actually went on at BlogHer. It seemed more like a giant…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #117: Your Passion
Sometimes I neglect to do what I like to do. i.e. Read a book cover to cover. Other times, I do too much of what I like to do. e.g. Write everywhere else but in my manuscript. Many times, I choose one thing I like to do over the other thing I like to do.…Continue Reading
BlogHer: A Musing
It was Friday when I lost my mind. I couldn’t keep up, plain couldn’t keep up with the faces, the cameras, the tweeting, the shucking, the jiving, the talking, the branding, the sponsoring, the expo-ing, the walking, the waiting, the schlepping, the nodding. I misplaced the ability to speak in complete sentences. To…Continue Reading
Quirky McQuickerson
I love quirkers. Truly. I adore weird people of every stripe and nonsense word they utter. I’d so much rather lunch with people who are strange and creatively unkempt than bland genericsons. In fact, I do seem to be one of those people who off-the-beaten-path types befriend. In college in Milwaukee, I lived down the…Continue Reading
Deep Thoughts From BlogHer
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Thoughts on This Weekend *UPDATED
When I was 18, my family up and moved from Chicago to San Diego. Fresh out of high school, I thought I’d die leaving my friends and summer plans. My heart stayed broken throughout most of 1986. I no longer had things to do on the weekends and no one knew my name. And for…Continue Reading
Why Did You Unfriend Me?
Last week I wanted to send a Facebook message to a friend of mine and when I discovered he was no longer on my “Friends” list, I inadvertently realized he had unfriended me. In other words, I discovered the hard way that he probably doesn’t like me anymore. So…right. And owie. I’m way too insecure…Continue Reading
Big Sigh
Man I feel like a crappy mom. I’ve taken to yelling lately (and not so lately) and it’s become my parenting technique. I’m so challenged by Toots especially and just don’t know what to do with her. So I yell. I have no parenting tools I guess. She talks circles around me and argues with…Continue Reading
