Yesterday I wrote about how important it is to think before you tweet. I’ll say it again. And I don’t mean people being honest and witty and funny and candid. I’m talking about people saying things that potentially hurt others or themselves. Because if twitter is like a cocktail party, …
(As usual, there is more to cover than fits a single post. Part 2 tomorrow.) I regularly compare twitter to a cocktail party – it provides a source of great conversation, interesting people and often better info than a google search. I started using twitter in April 2008. Back when …
This is why I love the internet: I was writing a post for Beauty Banter about my summer beauty tips yesterday, and I happened to see my friend Morgan tweet about these sunscreen wipes she uses for her daughter. I asked her if they were good for all ages, and …
In the last week, I joined in celebrating the 90th birthday of a man who has lived a truly remarkable life. I also learned, via twitter , of Alice Pyne, a fifteen year old girl in England with terminal cancer who created a blog to post her bucket list, which …
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t. – Pete Seeger Have you ever heard the story about the blogger whose annual family holiday photo somehow ended up on a billboard advertising a supermarket in Eastern Europe? A billboard they never would …
Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, Something done, Has earned a night’s repose. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. …
This post didn’t start out this way. I didn’t plan to talk about what happened Sunday night. But it seemed ironic that as I was preparing quotes for this week’s installment of five great things some one else said, I found out a quote I had just posted was, in …
I found a bunch of my old albums the other day. Not my parents’ albums, the ones they played on the Bang & Olufsen, but some from the collection my little sister and I destroyed on our Fisher Price turntable. Every scratch made with love. But soon enough they were …