Toddlin’ Through Chicago with The ...

[Dear Roger Ebert Fans: If you are coming here in response to his kind recommendation, he was referring to this earlier post.] Chicago, Chicago that toddlin’ town. Chicago, Chicago I will show you around. I’m not quite sure what toddlin’ is, but I’m sure I did a lot of it this past weekend. Which is great, because Chicago is one city I’ve always passed...

A BlogHer Experience of a Different Colo...

I usually try to keep things light around here. Hilarious farming misadventures, terriers, and, of course, loads of coyote poo. I purposely try to restrain myself from getting too political. Because those who know me know that you can get me on political subjects and sometimes it’s questionable if you can get me off them. I toyed with the idea of segregating those rants and...

Random Acts of Bloggage

Made it back from Chicago and BlogHer and can barely remember my own name, let alone pull together a blog post. So here are some bits and pieces of wisdom or foolishness. You decide which is which. Interesting Fact: Flickr can be used as a child behavior modification tool Waiting for my flight in an overcrowded, hot and muggy O’Hare I sat behind a woman with three overtired,...

In Which I Don’t Quite Become Blog...

The BlogHer ’09 Conference has been so jam-packed I’ve barely been able to Twitter, let alone blog. But before we get started, let me first reassure you that it hasn’t been because I was one of the tiara and boa wearing girls passing out drunk in the lobby after way too many cocktails. I met up with a fellow Mount Holyoke College alum last night who is a former...

Wow! Chicago is Not Like San Francisco

Okay, we in San Francisco think we are one of the leading metro centers in America. After all, by most counts, we are the fourth largest metropolitan area in the country. I’m still willing to fight anyone who says we don’t have one of the best art/music/opera/culture epicenters in the U.S. But today was a crash course in learning that a “Metropolitan Area” is...

Help Me Write an Elevator Pitch

I’m starting to get flooded with emails from Blogher offering helpful tips for getting the most out of the Conference. Then I got the one that urged me: “Don’t forget your Elevator Pitch!” Elevator Pitch? For those of you who might not know, this is a succinct pitch (in this case a description of your blog) that can be blurted out between two floors on the...