December 2009
9 posts
Question
“Mom? What does the Tooth Fairy do with all of those teeth?”
“I honestly don’t know, babe.”
She stops and thinks again. “Mom? Where does the tooth fairy get all of her money?”
Hmmm. “That’s a good question. Let’s ask the Internet.” I pulled out my iPhone and loaded up the Google app with the voice input. I cleared my throat....
The Great Snow of 2009 - I think we're about over...
After all, it’s just snow. We’re dug out. We can get around now. The child’s school was closed so my three precious days of Christmas prep just floated away like a Nutcracker snowflake fairy but that’s life.
Blogging might slow up for a couple of days. Here’s the equation:
Upcoming holiday that involves many presents + “snow of the decade” +...
The Great Snow of 2009 - Part 4, Day 3
Late yesterday, I looked down from the front porch and thought, “Wow. I don’t remember there being that much space between the porch and the bushes.” It was an odd thought… sort of floating through my brain like so much mental dandelion fluff. I thought the thought and then moved on to something else… like how I was going to peel the wet pants off my shivering,...
The Great Snow of 2009 - Part 3, Day 2
I vaguely remember her in my ear. “Mom? Can my friend come over now?”
“Too early.” I really had no idea, but it had to be too early. The glow through the curtains wasn’t bright enough. “Too early. Go back to sleep.”
Unexpectedly, she actually went away. I drifted back off to sleep.
I woke up to the sound of dishes clanging in the kitchen. My husband...
The Great Snow of 2009 - Part 2
“Mom! There are kids across the street! Can I go out?”
*groan* If she goes across the street, I have to stand out there until she’s done… and she has a high tolerance for cold.
“Mom!”
“Yeah, yeah, OK.” I peek out the window. The other neighbors are out shoveling or walking around and chatting. There are dogs out jumping and and playing in the...
The Great Snow of 2009 - Part 1
I’ll post through the day since… there’s really nothing else to do. We live in the Washington, DC, area and are currently getting hit by “The Storm of the Decade”.
…Which doesn’t mean much to me since for the past few years we measured our annual snowfalls in fractions of an inch.
We got plenty of warning, so we went to see a movie last night. We...
Once upon a consult
Once upon a consult, I had a client who was at once:
in love with the web and the opportunities it could provide his organization,
reasonably savvy about new and creative approaches to using the web,
dealing with enormous gaps of information in his web knowledge that made him unsure of his decisions, and
an ego the size of Cleveland that wouldn’t made it very painful for him to admit...
Are journalists doomed?
There was a time — not so long ago — when all that journalists had to worry about was getting credible facts checked and assembling a cohesive story about a topic. That’s harder than it sounds. People are terrible sources of information for a journalist. They forget stuff, they remember important details wrong — sometimes they just lie in order to get attention or to get...