Writing

There was an awesome moment during the BlogHer’13 Anatomy of a Story panel on Saturday when Vikki said, “Everybody needs a gay… and so I always think about, when I write on my blog, that I’m the gay for people that don’t have one.” People started laughing and tweeting what she said, because it was a great […]

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“You can’t boil the ocean, if you try to, your life/blog becomes generic.” ~  Maria Ross That is my biggest takeaway from BlogHer`13. I heard it towards the beginning of Pathfinder Day, in the Keynote One to One with Maria Ross and Lesley Pinckney. Maria, a brand strategist, author, speaker and brain aneurysm survivor, has so […]

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This time last year I was doing a lot of the same things I did today, packing and preparing to attend BlogHer’s annual conference. However, in 2012 I was flying to NYC with my sister for the big event, my first BlogHer conference, and I was a speaker there. For my second go around I […]

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Welcome to the second check-in for the Summer Shed! Here is the back story about this support group/blog hop for those trying to be accountable for the positive changes we are making in our lives in 2013. After ten weeks of doing the Winter Shed and thirteen doing the Spring Shed, we have moved on […]

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When I wrote and shared my first Letter to the Editor of The New York Times last week, I was unaware that they will not publish letters which have already been published somewhere else, including on the web. I realize now that may have been a significant factor, a long with the length (550 words), in their […]

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It’s Thursday, which means my latest (and last) post is up over at The Today Voice.  I appreciate your support and feedback about my posts and am especially grateful to those who have taken time to comment on my posts over there and share your thoughts on the weekly prompts over the past year. It ‘s hard […]

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