Posted in Seen, Heard, Said, Thomas on Apr 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Me: “Stop biting your nails.” Thomas: “No!” Me: “Come on, I’ll clip ‘em when we get home.” Thomas: “No cwipping! It’s mo bettah this way, you should twy it!”
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said on Apr 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Me: “Getting to the Good Friday service can be such a hassle sometimes.” Friend: “Yeah? Why? The traffic?” Me: “Yeah. And we have to cross the bridge.” Friend: “Hm. Well at least you don’t have to carry a cross.” Me: “You may have a point, there.”
Posted in Other Places to Find Me, Seen, Heard, Said, Startup Mom on Jan 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Yesterday was a little… well… not what I’m used to. At several points during the day I found myself surrounded by the media, like when Beau Bridges and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar arrived for a panel to discuss the role of social media in promoting their new movie, On the Shoulders of Giants. I was sitting on [...]
Posted in Other Places to Find Me, Seen, Heard, Said, Soundrack, Startup Mom on Jan 21st, 2010 5 Comments »
We flew into Salt Lake City tonight for the Sundance Film Festival where we’ll be live streaming and producing video at the Tweet House. While standing in the baggage claim Bryan goes, “Hey, there’s Ted from How I Met Your Mother.” FIVE FEET AWAY. I watched a few people ask for his autograph, smile at [...]
Posted in Ruthie, Seen, Heard, Said, Thomas on Jan 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Ruthie, drawing a picture: “This is mom & dad.” Thomas: “When they got out of jail?” Ruthie: “Yeah. And mom is pregnant.” Wha-?
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said, Travel, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be) on Sep 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
We are in Los Angeles this week, helping with video at the 140 Twitter Conference. And by we, this time I really do mean WE – I’m the second camera operator. But since that sounds boring, and I can’t have a cool title like gaffer or key grip or best boy, I plan to call [...]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said on Sep 8th, 2009 5 Comments »
Did you hear? President Obama is brainwashing our kids today! I don’t normally rant about politics in this space, but this issue gets me riled up at a foundational level. Because for me, this is not really about politics, but about fear of Other, about thinking we’re in Control, and about PARENTING OUR CHILDREN. So, [...]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said on Aug 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Going Big – This American Life I first heard of Geoffrey Canada last year when I was thinking a lot about education in the inner city, and found his “total life” approach to education fascinating. I am completely in love with his charter school concept, and totally heartbroken by the socio-economic divide in education. Canada’s [...]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said on Aug 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Ignite Seattle: Public Library Hacking, by Dawn Rutherford Postcards From Yo Mama This is one of the websites I go to when I need a five minute break to laugh my ass off. Real email and IM correspondence with mothers, and you won’t be able to stop reading! Controversial Breast-Feeding Doll Yeah, I think it’s [...]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said on Aug 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
New GI Bill Offers Massive Benefits – NPR “By 1947, the president said, half of all Americans enrolled in college were veterans. Eight million veterans who were educated under the original GI Bill, Mr. Obama added, became the backbone of the largest middle class in U.S. history.” I did not know this. That’s pretty cool. [...]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said on Jul 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Is Orphan an Anti-Adoption Screed? – Paste Magazine The first time I saw a trailer for this movie I rolled my eyes to the heavens and thought, For the love of Pete, WHY are we scaring people away from adoption so excellently?! But I discovered this article via @pastemagazine, and it makes a good point: [...]
Posted in Learning, Seen, Heard, Said on Jun 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Am I Kate? – PBS Supersisters While I’ve never watched John and Kate Plus 8, I’ll admit I got caught up a little in the gross blog commentary re their personal lives as depicted on the show. It was refreshing to come across this post that invites you to empathize a little with their circumstances, [...]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said on May 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Encouraging Young Artists – PBS Supersisters Recently I had the epiphany that I’ve been a writer since I could write – I just never had a mentor to encourage me or give any direction. I’m so task oriented at home I often forget to spend time cultivating my kids’ interests, discovering what they enjoy creating [...]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said on Apr 17th, 2009 1 Comment »
Bryan Zug, Geek of the Week! – Seattle P.I. Big shout out to the man of the house for this nomination by his peers! Who Needs a Manual to Write Real Good? – NPR.org A hilarious grammar tongue-twister to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William Strunk and E.B. White’s Elements of Style, the grammar manual [...]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said on Apr 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Book Update – Conversion Diary A great post from another writer about finding time to write in the midst of Life: “…good writing is possible under all sorts of circumstances…” Where the Wild Things Are movie trailer YouTube won’t let me embed this in the blog, so definitely click through to watch it. I’m so [...]
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