This week is a whirlwind. Among other things, now that I’ve officially passed two years of blogging, I’ll be making technically my second but actually my third visit to the BlogHer conference. ( for explanations of my previous adventures at BlogHer, click here and here.) In the meantime I’ve been hearing about Daniel’s adventures in [...]
Me and July 4th. If you don’t know what I mean, read my last post. Or read this one. Every year– just getting through the day, I feel as if I dodged a bullet. This year the bullet struck just as the clock struck. July 4th had barely dawned. It was the middle of the [...]
I don’t go to fireworks on the fourth of July. They’ve always come to me. Over the years, by some awful coincidence, Independence Day is when my mother died; my father died; my husband and I told our kids we were separating and he was moving out; and I got my cancer diagnosis. [...]
What happened to Mom and apple pie? Suddenly mommies are the bad guys….. if you saw the front page of the New York Times Style section today, which used this graphic for a piece about mommy bloggers. If you’re clueless about mommy bloggers, the title spells it out: Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m too Busy [...]
Though it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind, I think this is V’s least favorite thing about me: not only being indecisive, but also revisiting decisions I already supposedly made. ( Somehow this isn’t a problem when it comes to making decisions for everyone else–that’s easy.) And now my indecisiveness can extend into cyberspace: [...]
Do they still call the roll in classrooms? I feel as if I need a note from home to explain why I’ve been absent. I was that kind of kid. I never skipped school either. I didn’t turn into that kind of adult. But inside me is still that girl who likes to do it right. So I [...]
Oy. Exactly one year ago, as my New Year’s resolution, I started my other blog, Cluttercast. Every day I posted an item from my clutter, and gave it away to someone who wanted it. It was a big success—-most of all, for me. This was the first time in my entire life I successfully kept [...]
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I owe George Clooney an apology. Or thanks. Or something. A few weeks ago, as soon as I heard about this book called Marrying George Clooney, it hit me: Why didn’t I think of that? The perfect ticket to get the author some face time with him. I ordered the book on Amazon— how could [...]
His plea for privacy seems reasonable—-a Tiger who wants to be left in peace to lick his wounds. My immediate instinct as a human being is to allow another human being to preserve his dignity. And yet…. I struggled with this issue from the first time I was on a news story and had to [...]
The other day, I described the fun side of the blogosphere. Well, this is the other side. Because when you meet people online you don’t just share their thoughts and their lives; you also share their battles. This past summer, the American Cancer Society formed a Blogger council—made up of women with experience or interest [...]
