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...
View ArticleIf 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleBlogHer10: 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleProject 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleA Blogger’s Not a Journalist, and That’s OK
Typewriter adler3 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 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...
View ArticleGoodbye, David Rakoff
David Rakoff at the Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) They’re rosy, they’re peachy, they understand Nietzsche, Those beautiful brainy girls. They write well,...
View ArticleWhen Best Friends Break Up
The invitation to my 30th High School reunion is haunting me. It seems impossible. Thirty years? At my 10th High School reunion, JL., one of the Popular Girls in my suburban High School’s impenetrable...
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