Sometimes, there’s a convergence between what other blogs are posting and what I’m already thinking about, but during the last week or so it’s been almost scary. There have been discussions in several places concerning how you use names on your blog, including two that cropped up just yesterday. Kathy Howe’s blog at Work It, Mom! suggests some rules to follow if you’re blogging as your “side job,” particularly being discreet and not forgetting that […]
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Booking Through Thursday: Just Wild About Harry!
Booking Through Thursday This week’s questions are a special Harry Potter edition: Okay, love him or loathe him, you’d have to live under a rock not to know that J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, comes out on Saturday… Are you going to read it? If so, right away? Or just, you know, eventually, when you get around to it? Are you attending any of the midnight parties? If […]
Just finished: “Lost and Found”
reviewed for the Mother-talk.com Blog Tour(due to be posted on Wednesday 7/18, but I’m done early!) Lost and FoundCarolyn Parkhurst (author’s website) Lost and Found revolves around a reality TV show of the same name that features a dozen teams competing in a worldwide scavenger hunt with a million-dollar prize. Like The Amazing Race (TAR), each of the teams is made up of two people with a pre-existing relationship. The book starts about halfway through […]
Ten on Tuesday – 10 Favorite Movies From Childhood
Ten on Tuesday Can we allow “childhood” to go up to about age 14 for this purpose? OK, I vote yes. Some are older than I am and I saw them on TV (with commercials, in the pre-cable days). And this list is not ranked in order – it’s just 10 I remember well from that time period. The Wizard of Oz The Music Man Oklahoma! Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Star Wars (now […]
Booking Through Thursday – Books into Movies
This week’s questions: 1. In your opinion, what is the best translation of a book to a movie?2. The worst?3. Had you read the book before seeing the movie, and did that make a difference? (Personally, all other things being equal, I usually prefer whichever I was introduced to first.) And, by all means, expand this to as long a list as you like. I’m notoriously awful myself at narrowing down to one favorite ANYTHING. […]
Mom’s making it work
My second article for Work It, Mom! that’s not a “Speak Your Mind” essay has been posted. My inspiration from this one comes from not being one of the entrepreneurs, freelancers, consultants, or other independent workers I’m meeting online these days, and wanting to speak up for the hordes who are still working for the proverbial “somebody else.” We’re not getting rich that way, but it’s still got a lot going for it…and not everyone […]
Office style, office politics (?)
This isn’t meant to be a brag or anything – I’m just really excited! I just had another “nicest kind of weird” experience – a question/comment I left on someone’s blog inspired an entire post! A couple of weeks ago, Susan Wagner discussed what’s appropriate to wear to a job interview in a less-traditional work environment (business casual or “Friday casual”) in her “Working Closet” blog on Work It, Mom! In my comment, I asked […]
Factors for a successful marriage – the Pew Survey
Having been married twice, and considering divorce something I only want to go through once, I found this interesting for a number of reasons. Part of a new study on generational differences in values by the Pew Research Center ranks a list of factors considered “very important” for a successful/happy marriage, and compares the results to a 1990 survey. Highest to lowest in 2007, with % of responses agreeing in 2007 vs. 1990: faithfulness (93/95) […]
BTT: “Desperation”
This week’s “Booking Through Thursday” query: What’s the most desperate thing you’ve read because it was the only available reading material? If it was longer than a cereal box or an advertisement, did it turn out to be worth your while? I’m really not sure what it could have been. Probably some pamphlet in a waiting room somewhere, and I can’t remember – or have blocked it out – because it wasn’t worth the time, […]
My first “Wiki Wednesday”
Thanks to Karen at verbatim for turning me on to this one. It’s easy to play. Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! Did you ever wonder what Audio Video Standard (AVS) is? Me neither, and it sounds like you’ll never need to unless you’re looking for some Chinese DVD: Audio Video Standard, or AVS, is a compression codec for digital audio and […]
10-Minute Writers: What I Do…
I’m trying the “10-minute Writers” exercise on Crazedparent this week. It was more of a challenge than I anticipated, but it was fun. I’ll probably do it again the next time the topic grabs me. The question:”How big of a person are you?”The assignment: For 10-minutes, write about everything you do for everyone else. Be big, be bold, and be as blunt as your writing mind wants you to be. The rules, the rules…* Write […]
Do kids change your ambitions?
This week’s “Speak Your Mind” topic on Work It, Mom! is “Have you become less ambitious in your career and personal goals since having kids?” It’s a tough question to answer for me, since parenthood, career, and adulthood pretty much all coincided and it’s tough to tease out exactly how they affected each other. I’m inclined to say “yes,” but it’s more like my ambitions have been scaled to the framework of managing family and […]
