Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
(Attending the session: Ten types of Web writing with Lisa Stone and Lynne d. Johnson – blogged live by mir) This session addressed the differences between writing for print and writing for blogs. Lynne listed the need for a conversational tone, increased personalization, and differentiation from the “corporate” voice as the most important changes...
My grandmother was a practical and successful business woman. She managed to live well without a husband for most of her life, opened a women clothing store with her sister after the war (in the South of Italy and starting from nothing), and successfully managed it for many years, through changes in fashion and...
BlogHer, the conference “where the women bloggers are” is finally here; I am leaving for the Bay tomorrow. I am so nervous!! The conference is sold out: and there are so many people that I have been waiting to meet… I will try to leave home my usual conference-shy self and being sociable. I...
Have you ever driven home from work crying? On Friday afternoon, after a very hard week, I drove home crying. Granted, I was listening to StoryCorps on NPR. This particular story was about a 60 years old woman, Kristi, remembering her mother, Norine, who had just died. She described a moment of “blissful laughing...
The second Blogher Conference on and for women bloggers will be held in San Jose on July 28-29. If you are interested and don’t mind traveling to the West Coast in July consider registering for Blogher. I didn’t go last year and I am still regretting it (but I am going this year: I...
Martin Luther King Jr. was born 11 days after my father, on January 15, 1929. They both would be 77 years old today. Had I had it my way, MLK would have lived a long life. Short of that, I am happy we celebrate his life every year in January and most of the...