This year the BlogHer Conference, that is being billed as a “Selfiebration,” returns to the place it all began 10 years ago in San Jose – Silicon Valley. So between now and the start of the conference I will be posting about various aspects of my journey with BlogHer since I joined the […]
A Nod to The Obligatory Fathers Day Post
On the way to my Father’s Day post I discovered a couple neat things. Did you know you can embed Facebook images into a blog? I do now, but I didn’t know it a half an hour ago. I was looking at the pic I’d cropped to show just Dad and me when I noticed the […]
Nice Days Normal Life
I want to write something normal, not something heady, insightful, or politically informed. I don’t want it to be about illness, depression, guns, or require a bunch of research. I have discovered some contentment has slipped in unbeknownst to me during the last couple of decades of life. In the next week my husband and […]
Organizing, Digital Hoarding and Brushes with Mortality
Oh Fa-aack. I’ve been trying really, really hard to be a responsible grown-up. Now that my daughter is in grad-school, engaged, and Hubby and I are celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversary this summer I have to come to grips with this life being the reality I have for the rest of my life. For some […]
Sister of a Soldier – Memorial Day and Vietnam
Traditions When I was a little girl in the dark ages of the 20th Century, the Memorial Day Weekend was when my family went to cemeteries to tend the graves of our ancestors, including my great-uncle who had served in World War I, and pay respects to those who had gone on before us. The […]
Heartbleed and Your Blog Security
A massive security bug in Open SSL has left more than half of the internet’s site vulnerable to data breaches. Here I share one suggestion for finding out if you blog is safe.