In connection with the American Cancer Society’s recently-launched “Campaign for More Birthdays,” members of the Silicon Valley Moms Group of regional blogs participated in a “Birthday” Topic Day on August 31. Birthdays are a big deal to me, and I decided to write about one that was particularly significant (although cancer isn’t part of the story). My mother died of complications related to early-onset Alzheimer’s ten years ago today. I’ve written about that before, and […]
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The Week-End Review: Travels across the blogiverse this week
(Well, it’s nearly the end of the week, and we’re getting ready for the weekend, aren’t we?) I’m changing up the schedule around here a bit, since I have decided to join the Sunday Salon as of this weekend, which means that Saturday will become my regularly scheduled “day off” from posting. Therefore, I’m relocating the Weekend Review links post to Fridays; Bookkeeping and Bookmarks links will be included in the Sunday Salon posts. **In […]
Weekend Review 9/26: Travels across the Blogiverse this week
I know where I stand in this debate, but haven’t figured out how to articulate it yet: are families bonded by blood more “real” than families that aren’t? Also, the good and bad of single parenting in the suburbs Your blog is where you’re free to express what you want to share – and to keep what you don’t want to share to yourself. Feedback and failures, successes and soul-searching – you don’t have to […]
Weekend Review 9/19: The BBAW Hangover Edition
Announcements: Memory Walking again I mentioned this as part of yesterday’s post, but it was buried a bit there, so here it is again, because I’d really like you to know about it: If you’ve been reading here for awhile, you may remember that my mother died of Alzheimer’s at the age of 69. This year is the tenth anniversary of her passing, and as has become our tradition, my sister and I will remember […]
BBAW: My own personal shortlist (UPDATED)
On this first day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2009, participants are encouraged to share the book-blog love: The first day of BBAW, Monday September 14th, we encourage you to write a post thanking and spotlighting your favorite blogs that didn’t make the shortlists. Those “shortlists” would be the ones related to the BBAW Awards, which I talked more about last Friday: nearly 40 categories, 1000 blogs originally nominated across them all, now down to […]
Weekend Review 9/12
New Arrivals in my Google Reader The Debutante Ball A Reader’s Respite Books ‘N Border Collies Kids, Twins, and Laundry Bins The Misadventures of Super Librarian Remembering eight years and one day ago: Project 2,996; remembrances from Washington DC and New York City; remembering not seeing it happen; still looking for “disaster buddy” Don; looking for hope on the National Day of Service. Also: Did citizen reporting on 9/11 foreshadow blogging today? A farewell to […]
Weekend Review 9-5: Travels around the blogiverse this week
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I was helping with some behind-the-scenes work to prepare for Book Blogger Appreciation Week. I’m finally done, and now it can be told: I was a member of the awards committee, and served on three of the panels evaluating nominees for the Shortlist. (I was not nominated for any of the awards I judged, and the same is true for all other committee members.) I discovered nearly all […]
Weekend Review 8-29-09: Around the blogiverse this week
New Arrivals in my Google Reader Galleysmith Bookalicio.us Dispatches from across the blogiverse Regardless of their beliefs, nearly everyone believes in this Eyewitness News – sting-op at the Shell! (Do they still say “film at eleven”?); encounters with the gender police Tools for the team parent (or any group leader, really), from a genuine soccer mom; the joy of back-to-school week A night at home alone feels…weird Dating isn’t always good preparation for marriage, but […]
Weekend Review: travels across the blogiverse this week
Random self-promotional updates I mentioned this in yesterday’s TBIF post too; I’m part of the team that’s helping out behind the scenes with preparations for Book Blogger Appreciation Week*, and the next couple of weeks are going to be in high gear for that. If I go missing for a bit over here between now and early September, it’s BBAW’s fault. I know; I always say things like that and then I don’t disappear after […]
Weekend Review, 8-15-09
Reading, ‘riting, and time…and music – that’s what I was talking about on other blogs this week. If you didn’t stop in and visit, I hope you’ll get the chance to go this weekend! New Arrivals in my Google Reader Well-Mannered Frivolity A Book and a Dog Shh I’m Reading Always Home and Uncool A lovely shore breeze… Stacy’s Bookblog Dispatches from across the blogiverse The (polite) battle to preserve manners and considerate behavior, and […]
Shufflin’ over to Music Savvy Mom!
One of my blog categories here is “pop culture: music” because I’m just the slightest bit addicted to it. I used to post random lists of songs from my iPod regularly, and I like responding to music-related prompts I find on other blogs (although I was at a loss for last week’s Weekly Geeks topic: songs that remind you of books). I’m responding to one of those prompts at another blog today. Susan Helene Gottfried […]
Visiting with Friends
A few members of the “Southern California book-blogging sorority” met up this past weekend in Irvine, where we were joined by special out-of-town guests – Jen from Devourer of Books, visiting from Chicago, and baby Daniel! Jules of A Book in Hand was there too, and it was all organized by My Friend Amy. We spent a couple of pleasant hours talking about books and blogging; Jen has more details about it in her Sunday […]
