Archive for September, 2007

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

“because mommy needs a goal”

I’m not sure why I’m so surprised by the following realization, but the fact that I continue to find out new things about myself makes me incredibly happy and makes me optimistic about entering my forties and fifties.
Growing up under the shadow of the baby boomers, I was under the impression that I [...]

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Thursday, September 20th, 2007

How Women Use Social Media

Chris Brogan writes a lot. Almost every day he has a post that catches my eye, about two or three times a week there is a post that I drop what I’m doing to read, and then there are days like today, where I spent some time in his archives getting ready for a [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Blogging about blogs, blogging, knitting, new media, words and sounds by amy

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Too good to pass up

Vandalism is never funny, especially library vandalism, especially vandalism at the Boston Public Library - a fine institution where I spent many an hour trolling for handsome graduate students. And yet somehow, the Boston Globe’s coverage of today’s incident left me in giggles. Located about half way down “Christ statue vandalized at library, [...]

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Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Run Amy Run

Dear Friends and Family,

I’ve been incredibly fortunate in not knowing anyone directly affected by breast cancer – I’d have to go out two or three degrees of separation to find a breast cancer survivor. Since I’m adopted, it is quite possible that I am at an increased risk of getting the disease, but of course, [...]

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Thursday, September 6th, 2007

back in the saddle again

This morning, I sent my daughter off to her first day of Kindergarten and my son off to Pre-K. How did they get so big, so fast?

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