OK, here’s a new blogging challenge — post an email you sent or received one year ago today (or to whenever the date is that you posted). Here is mine from last Nov. 10, in response to someone who had her first Craigslist experience and wondered about the veracity of the seller. Yes, he sucks bigtime and is trying to …
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Creative FallCreative Fall
The Celts have a word for this time of year: Samhain. It’s a time when you go indoors, work on crafty things, ponder existence, and listen to Led Zepelin and Etta James. My inner Celt is apparently raging, as I have made no less than five scarves in the last month. Mostly because I don’t know how to make hats …
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Pop!Tech – Day 1 – Speaking the UnspokenPop!Tech – Day 1 – Speaking the Unspoken
Holy crap I am hyperventilating about what just happened on my way back from the opening-night cocktail party, but first here’s the meaty part of the post: I am here in Camden for my third Pop!Tech conference, where culture and technology come together, presented by today’s greatest writers and thinkers. Today there were special pre-conference sessions. I went to see …
One of Those Things I Wish I’d Thought of …
… but probably wouldn’t have pulled it together anyway if I had. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
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40licious and a half40licious and a half
Lesson #7, above. Lucy didn’t get a say in this executive decision. I’ve been 40licious for six months. It’s been amazing, really, the journey to here, so far. The best way to mark it, I think, is to outline 20 things I’ve learned since I got to this point. 1. Sometimes you just have to let things go. Take the …
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Surrender to the FreckleSurrender to the Freckle
I write so much about other people, that it’s sort of a shock to see when someone writes about me. It’s happened a few times, like when my play was up in Seattle, and I had all kinds of adoring journalists calling me for the lowdown on the body-image thing. I think I was professionally happiest then. I’ve recently come …
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40licious Hall o’ Fame: Fun With Pop Rocks40licious Hall o’ Fame: Fun With Pop Rocks
The link isn’t quite working directly; search for “Liquid Muse” on the site and pick “alcohol-free cocktails.” You’ll be glad you spent that extra four seconds. I hereby initiate another rockin’ person into the 40licious Hall o’ Fame: My good friend Natalie Bovis-Nelsen, aka The Liquid Muse. There are several reasons I could have previously put her right in there. …