Weapons-Grade Generosity

I became involved in an ugly email/Internet flare-up earlier this week that got me thinking about generosity. First let me give you the backstory, but I’ll try to keep it short, since it’s not really the point of this post. For about a year or so, I’ve been very loosely involved with a group of women bloggers who had a community project. Suddenly, they announced they...

Camp Two Terriers: The Rapping, Texting,...

I suspected Camp Two Terriers would end up teaching me more than I was able to teach two thirteen year olds. Prediction fulfilled and it’s only the second day. As you might imagine, music appreciation was the first part of my education. You do get in a Country Western bubble in Left Coast Cowboyland. Not that I think Johnny Cash’s legacy has anything to fear from Justin...

Dooce Fans, Stop It! Just Stop It!

Stop coming here. There’s nothing to see. This is not a Dooce Hate Site. Yet every time Dooce puts up one of her “Oh Poor Little Me” posts about how the InterWebs are being mean to her, people flood over here on a wave of Google searches such as “Dooce Haters”, “Dooce Hate” and, my favorite, “Why Do People Hate Dooce”. Dooce...

The Donny Osmond Appreciation Society

Photo: ABC Television By now, most of you know that Donny Osmond took the silver disco ball trophy last night as the new reigning champion of Dancing With the Stars. Pretty good for a 51 year old Grandfather and the perfect opportunity for me to reprise one of my Donny Osmond posts. My faithful readers will remember when I first mentioned Donny Osmond on this blog. It was a throw-away...

Yes, It’s Another Donny Osmond Pos...

My faithful readers will remember when I first mentioned Donny Osmond on this blog. It was a throw-away line in a post I wrote about Michael Jackson’s death. In response to my musing that I thought Donny was an underappreciated talent, I got flooded with emails, Twitters and Facebook messages (People, talk to the blog!) In fact, I got more feedback on Donny than I did on Michael...

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...