Posted in Blog Stuff, Living In Community on Mar 29th, 2007 3 Comments »
On Monday evening (April 2) I will be participating in a round table discussion as a panelist with a group called The Kindlings. The topic is online community and whether it can be real and engaging to those involved. I’m very honored to be participating, and I hope it will help me flesh out some [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Mar 27th, 2007 3 Comments »
I have not been reading Kathy Sierra’s blog for very long – Bryan suggested only a couple weeks ago that I should check her out. Then yesterday I read about all that has happened to her – the death threats and such. This is the dark underside of the blogosphere, as Ted Leung put it. [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Mar 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
It’s Saturday afternoon. The kids are asleep, Bryan is snoring on the couch, and Return of the Jedi is on cable (HD!). I have just enjoyed a relaxing hour of catching up on some beloved blog reading – as much as two months worth of posts! That may sound overwhelming to some, but to me [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Living In Community on Mar 12th, 2007 8 Comments »
I’ve heard of other blogging groups getting together for meet-ups in the area, and thought it might be fun for the Friends of This Pile (heretofore called FoTP) to have a local Meet-Up as well! Are you interested? I’d love to meet you in person (those I don’t know already), and I think it would [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Living In Community on Mar 6th, 2007 No Comments »
If you’re anything like me (read: narcissistic), The Truman Show was the movie that made you want to smoke a cigarette when it was over. I could have made millions had I capitalized on my vivid childhood imagination, for I had envisioned ‘reality tv’ long before it was even a whisper in the womb. There [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Travel on Feb 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I have to admit that I wasn’t all that excited about coming to Northern Voice this weekend – but only because it’s been a busy month of traveling, and I was feeling overwhelmed. On the way to a party on Thursday night for friends who were in town I said to Bryan, ‘Would you be [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Travel on Feb 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Because you can never pack, unpack, and repack a suitcase (or three) too many times in a two month period, we are on the road again. On the heals of our trip to Portland last weekend in which our children also went in separate directions to be cared for, I had three days to turn [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Jan 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Here I am at my favorite coffee and wine bar, sipping chai tea today as I only have time to stay for an hour (that damn snow kept me from running errands this morning, so I had to use my afternoon off to go grocery shopping). But, as promised I held a completely random drawing [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Jan 10th, 2007 8 Comments »
Hey, I just found out at Notes from the Trenches that it’s de-lurking week! Since I have nothing important to say, why don’t you come out of the shadows to say hello? Still not motivated to unveil yourself? I’ll throw in a prize: Anyone who comments by the end of Friday will be entered into [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Friendship on Jan 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
This holiday season I was blessed with a few gifts from blogging friends – gestures that took me completely by surprise, and blessed me in oh so many ways. It is one of the joys I have experienced from writing here at The Pile I’m Standing In – the community of friendships from afar, like [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Learning on Nov 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
This week has been a fun Thanksgiving preparation week, both on the hospitality front as well as the project-completion front (my basement looks pretty again!). Bryan and I are hosting seven adults and five children (including our own family) for dinner tomorrow afternoon, followed by an open invitation to hang out with us in the [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Oct 29th, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve been sitting here all evening with this stupid laptop trying to write a post while watching t.v., and it just ended up being really bad writing. It was a report. Like a fourth grade book report, only about people. And it was boring, though it had potential to be meaningful if I wasn’t also [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Everyday on Oct 27th, 2006 2 Comments »
Hey, I bet you’re wondering how I did that neat trick of blogging every day even though I just said I wasn’t blogging every day. Well, it’s called POST DATING, baby! I wrote three posts on Tuesday while I sipped wine and ate goat cheese, then set them all to post on consecutive days. I [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Oct 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
In my continuing quest to simplify my life and feel less discouraged by all the things I can’t Get Done, I have been weeding through my blog feeds. I currently have 67 feeds coming in to my Bloglines account, and even that is after some serious deleting. At first I loved the idea of a [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, On Writing, Rage Against The Pile on Sep 21st, 2006 4 Comments »
Happy Birthday to Me Today I am 35 years old, and that is TOTALLY okay with me. At times my body feels old and decrepit, and I’m chubbier than I want to be, but I am doing exactly what I want to be doing. I am a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a friend, [...]
Be warned: what you see here is not my best work. It is what Anne Lamott describes in Bird By Bird as a series of “shitty first drafts.” Blogging dragged me kicking and screaming out of creative constipation by getting me to actually write. So I do that. A lot. Without worrying about every word choice or comma placement.
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