WE MATTER
Posted by amy at May 24th, 2007
“I hereby announce the formation of WEstern MAssachusetts Total Territorial Equity Regiment.
That’s right: WE MATTER”
Mortar Bend has a great post up about living in the hinterlands of Massachusetts, you can read it here.
Chris Brogan - one of my new blog crushes - has a post up today about a DIY autobiography kit. He encouraged his readers to post this form, fill it out, and then leave a comment back. Feel free to read his page, swipe the list and leave me a comment if you are so inspired.
A Quick Sketch Biography of Amy
The thing most people know me for is my job - I tend to be a bit evangelical about the power of the internet to bridge divides and nurture community.
The people I associate the most with are migratory - people who have never left their hometown scare me.
People who have influenced my life are… my family and former teachers, I can’t think of a major professional influence up until my current boss.
One challenge I took on and overcame was… I wasn’t working in a field I wanted to be in, so I took a year off to retrain myself for the career I wanted, not the career I had.
My early years, before you probably got to know me were spent trying to find a way to reconcile my penchant for being outrageous with my deep seeded need to be accepted.
You might not know this, but I am adopted.
I’m passionate about my children, my marriage and not living life by default.
In the next year or two, I hope to climb to the top of Mt. Greylock.
Amy - Great to read this. And great to meet you, thanks to Chris and to Twitter.
I saw a piece on the CBS evening news last night about Berk-Shares — a currency designed to help keep cash in town. Berk-Shares not being accepted in the chains. Interesting idea. What kind of currency to *you* spend?
barbara
Barbara Gavin
Hi barbara - welcome. I try to spend locally with greenbacks. I shop at a local & fantastic toy store (Persnickity in NA), I bum corn from the farm on the way back from my walk, with only a yellow sticky with my name & number for collatoral, I can’t wait to experience a full season of fruits and vegetables from Racine’s Farm, and I’m breaking up with dunkin donuts - a bad habit I had fallen back into and have been off for almost a week now. I think I understand the point of the Berk-shares, but we don’t have them up here and I’d have to have a really good reason to get them - like the butcher gave a 5% discount on pork chops for berkshire bucks, or I could not have to pay the deposit on a growler from the new brewery, some sort of tangable member benefit. I’m not a purist though - I work on a laptop most certainly made someone outside of this country and have developed an unexplained want for a new vehicle.
I have yet to twitter - mostly because I don’t have a hand held, should I be twittering?
amy
Hi there,
I found your link through the random blog link on the Sockapalooza blog.
It was a neat find, my brother is graduating from McCann Tech tomorrow night. I lived in Pittsfield for about 5 years, and now I live about 40 minutes from you just over the NY/VT border.
I miss the Berkshires, but I don’t miss the tourists
darra