This year, BlogHer, the largest women's blogging conference in the world, fell on my kids' camp visiting day. It is the one day in seven weeks I get to see my kids. And, since my kids are teenagers, it's also one of the only days my kids are totally, completely happy to spend an entire day with 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
Don’t Let them Call you a Mommy Blogger
This week, Mashable published an infographic called The Rise of the Mommy Blogger. And it was offensive on OH so many levels. And wrong. Just plain wrong. Commissioned by H&R Block for reasons I can't really fathom (maybe they think we're all making the big bucks blogging and they wanted to let Continue Reading