They're rosy, they're peachy, they understand Nietzsche, Those beautiful brainy girls. They write well, they work hard, they understand Kierkegaard, Those beautiful brainy girls. Each one is undeniably intellectual. And thank God they're certifiably heterosexual. They know their Cervantes, Continue Reading
A Blogger’s Not a Journalist, and That’s OK
Today I went to CE Week here in New York. And here's what I learned: I'm not journalist, and I'm fine with that. For the second year in a row, the fabulous folks at Techlicious hosted a Media/Mom Blogger tour of the CE Week floor, highlighting various companies and products. Imagine it! Actual Continue Reading
Top Ten Blissdom Takeaways
The day I was supposed to leave for Nashville to go to Blissdom, a blogger conference in Nashville, NYC got 19” of snow. Flight cancelled that day, and then that night, and the next morning, afternoon and evening, until the only flight available was Friday morning at 6:30. And the whole conference Continue Reading
Is it Time I Stopped Blogging?
I think it might be time for me to hang up my keyboard, pass on the Wordpress, stop with the stats. I think it might be time for me to stop blogging. I had a lot of friends in High School who wanted to be actors. Most of them auditioned for years and years, waiting tables all the while, until Continue Reading
Project You Magazine: I’m in the inaugural issue!
My friend Beth Feldman is the founder of Role Mommy. Which means she runs PR events for women amd brand events for bloggers. It means she offers online courses in PR and blogging, and that she passes on press opportunities to her giant database of bloggers. Oh, and it means she blogs, and sings, Continue Reading
A Psychopath left a Comment on my Blog!
Earlier this week my post about how to behave at a Broadway Show got a lot of attention when the lovely now-they're-my-best-friends people at Wordpress chose it for Freshly Pressed, their daily pick of the 10 most comment-worthy posts on the nearly 240,000 blogs housed there. I got a lot of hits Continue Reading
BlogHer10: Pros and Cons
The swag is put away (mostly), the business cards gone through (totally), the laryngitis fading (sorry, hubby, I can talk endlessly again). Yes, it was my first year at Blogher, and now it's time for a little post mortem. Just how was it? I went into BlogHer thinking that how I felt about BlogHer Continue Reading
Why Aren’t I more excited about Blogher10?
The twitterverse is all atwitter. The invitations are flying. Blogher10 is almost here. So why aren't I more excited? As Blogher10 approaches, I've been posting less, instead of more. I've been ignoring Twitter all together. And I really don't know why. Maybe I'm feeling intimidated. Women I Continue Reading
If They Pay You/Freebie You/Comp You, Can you Still be a Good Blogger?
So, this weekend, I went to the SVMOMS/BitMoms brand/blogger roundtable/schmooze fest. (OK, no more slashes for this entire post, I promise.) I had a great time re-connecting with and/or (oops! slash alert!) meeting some very cool blogging moms, like CultureMom, Marinka, Linsey Krolick (finally!) Continue Reading
Book Giveaway: The Winners
Congrats to Heidi and Rebecca! You've each won a copy of See Mom Run, with essays by Mom 101, NYC Single Mama, Twinfatuation, Role Mommy, Momma Said, me(!) and many more. Didn't win but still want to read it? Buy it, why dontcha? Just click on the little book icon just over there on the right, Continue Reading