work
I sing. Loud and long and hard. Not particularly well. Actually, particularly poorly. I don't know all the words. I make them up as I go along. I don't do karaoke. Usually while I'm cooking. Maybe in a car. Potentially walking down the street.
friends
I know this is going to be hard for some of you to believe, but I have a friend. A good one. We do friend things like not seeing or speaking to one another for months and then hanging out briefly while I'm in my pajamas working. She
babble
A couple of months ago on one of my rare visits to the office my boss asked if he could have a word with me. You all know what that's like? That moment of abject terror when you review everything you have done or could be called out
parenting
I've been eligible to vote in this country for 17 years and 8 months. Writing that, I realize now that on my next birthday I will have been a voter just as long as I was a kid. That's a huge milestone, one I never considered.
babble
School is back in session, the morning has a tiny nip on the breeze, and the season is starting to change. So today when I had the chance to run out to lunch I skipped the flats and ignored my sneakers in favor of the 5 1/2" cork
babble
It's taken me a week or so to come to terms with this. To mention it. To anyone except my kid that is. Why? because I don't like to talk about fecal matter. Really, who does? But this is a real world. And as the saying
babble
You know those days where nothing particularly special happens but things are just good? When your life has been so full of ups, downs, and things to do that a simple morning with simple pleasures is just the thing to set you straight? To make you smile? To allow you
babble
You know those moments when you're rushing around? You're wearing high heels and you've been heading up the stairs and down the stairs. From room to room. Drinking coffee. Drinking water. Talking to people you've known for years. Gauging people you'
babble
I handled all the rah rah yay community stuff from my day at WordCamp Portland right away. Really right away. I was prompt. I needed to get all that sunny lovey stuff out before the bitter anti-social Cami decided to shove it all deep down inside. So I woke up
bloggers
Yesterday was WordCamp Portland 2012. In its 5th iteration, at a much larger venue, and with many more attendees it managed to pull me right back to some of the magic of the first WordCamp Portland. 5 years ago I was just starting to use WordPress and attending and volunteering
babble
I spent the weekend working hard. To be fair I played hard to0 and then I worked twice as hard to make up for the playtime. But it's summer. And it was the weekend. Sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do.
babble
People, meet Robo Overlord Squishbot 4000. Robo Overlord Squishbot 4000 meet the people. Robo Overlord Squishbot 4000, hence force known as Robo, stopped us in the park today by blocking our path with his enormously tiny robo body and insisted that he spend the duration of our bike ride in