Today is World Lupus Day. Five million people, and about 1.5 million Americans, are living with the automimmune illness. And while the entire month of May is devoted to raising awareness, there’s a goal today: On May 10, ask 10 people to donate 10 dollars to the Lupus Foundation of …
I don’t believe there is a reason for everything. There are events, things that can’t be made sense of, that simply defy reason. I don’t believe in reasons for some things. But signs. I believe in signs. Good ones. Like hummingbirds. And Friday the 13ths. And red balloons. I believe …
I began writing about social media netiquette and ethics for blog readers and writers, but the more I saw kids (elementary through high school) using apps on their smartphones and iPads, and online on sites that I use, I realized that the conversation needed to expand. Like, yesterday. Curious, I …
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren’t on our lists, people we’ve never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe. - Jonathan Safran Foer, …
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too. - Karl Lagerfeld I’m a child of the eighties. The eighties in Los Angeles. A Valley Girl through and through. So it makes perfect sense to me why women, myself included, are stacking bracelets and watches the way …
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. - Horace Mann I collect quotes finding inspiration in the words of others. But there are some bits of wisdom I don’t understand. “Everything happens for a …
Photographing the BlogHer conference meant five days of peeking my head in and out of the workshops, the parties, the breakfasts and lunches each day. In those snippets I realized how much I want to attend next year and absorb it all from a writer’s POV. The blogosphere is complex …
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance. - Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty I returned from …