The word on the street is there’s a bit of a gathering headed my way in another week or so. The first ever @20SB Summit is coming to Chicago August 19-21 and bringing with it a number of my favorite people and many more whom I’ve been wanting to meet for years. (Ben, please don’t be [...]
Five years. Last week, though (like the bad little blogger I’ve been lately) I only just realized, marked five years for me as a blogger. Reflecting on that time, both upon blogging and the content on which I write, I’ve experienced quite a bit of Life over those years… I fell in love. And out [...]
Sometimes, the reminder you need is subtlety waiting at the end of the block in that boarded up storefront you’ve passed by for six years… It has not escaped my notice that I still have not written about moving in with my boyfriend; about the move itself, the changes that living together has brought (or not [...]
Thirteen years ago, I found myself camping with my family at Circus Circus in Las Vegas. Camping. The “campground” consisted of a shadeless black top parking lot and our camper was without air conditioning. In the July heat of 104 degrees at 8 in the morning. Too young to gamble or drink, too sunburned to wear anything except [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I realized I had put on and was wearing my underwear inside out…for the second time this week. To say I’m a bit distracted, a bit stressed, even a bit overwhelmed might come close to describing the tornado of activity and change I’ve experienced in the past two months. Might. Packing, packing, and more packing of [...]
This spring, I’m going all in. I’m gambling my pseudo-anonymous blogging identity on a little get together in the middle of the Nevada desert. I’m rolling the dice on what I lovingly refer to as “Blogger Spring Break.” I’m going to Bloggers in Sin City 2011! I have to admit, my going is a bit out of [...]
Two years ago, I got an email from you. You didn’t know my name, didn’t know my hair color or smile or laughter. You didn’t know the way my hand would feel in yours, didn’t know if there’d be a first date. You didn’t know how your words would resonate. You told me not to [...]
