Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
I’m just back from a week in Italy. Going to Italy always puts me in a strange mood; like meeting an old lover, memories of all the good and bad moments in the relationship resurface. And together with the memories of what happened, I start imagining alternative scenarios and how my life could have...
In the last few days, I have been frantically reading the The Naked Truth: A working woman’s manifesto on business and what really matters by Margaret Heffernan (Jory, thank you so much for the recommendation). Even if I felt a bit skeptical before reading it, after the first few pages I was completely hooked....
From dictionary.com “word of the day” for October 26 (I know, I am a little behind with my readings): Virago: an ill-tempered, overbearing woman; also, a woman of great strength and courage. Isn’t it interesting? I thought that men would find difficult to maintaining two contraddictory thoughts in their mind at the same time....
Everybody is blogging on their mothers lately. Jory started with a post on her mom, Joy, that made me sob. people have somehow caught on to this woman’s ability to not judge– even in matters concerning me–to listen, and, if you’re meeting her in-person, to feed you. [After that post, Joy decided to start...
It seems that there was a lot of talking at Blogher about the Technorati Top 100 list and how this list does not represent the world of bloggers (at least not the world of women bloggers, or mommy bloggers, or african-american bloggers, teenage bloggers, and so on; see, for example at the transcripts and...
I am virtually attending BlogHer. You can do it, too!! Visit the Conference site at BlogHer Participate to the live chat at PingV. (All the transcripts of the chat session can be found at Laura Scott‘s blog) Track the Conference through live bloggers at Track Blogher. Donna Mills has been blogging live like crazy...