Yesterday I was on Facebook while listening to NPR’s live coverage of the gay rights rally at the Supreme Court building here in Washington, D.C. I’m sure you know this but just in case you were in a coma, this week the Supreme Court hears two historic cases on gay rights: Prop 8, and the [...]

I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been busy. Ahem.  Okay – I’ll admit it. That whole Jerry Springer hullaballoo with the bitchy bloggers that went down last week really put me off blogging. For an entire week.

This week my Facebook fan page hit 500 Likes, mainly because I pimped myself on Twitter so that people would feel sorry for me and Like my page:

Ever had one of those days where basically everything you do is wrong? One of those days where you wake up feeling pretty good in the morning but by late afternoon you feel like the townspeople are gathering up their pitchforks and lighting their fucking torches? I call them my Frankenstein days. 

Blogher ’12 – I came, I saw, I survived my own anxieties to write about what it was like, and overall it was pretty darn great. 

<begin boasting here> Um, big news! I’m featured on Blogher.com today, the day before the Blogher ’12 conference. Okay, “I’m” not featured, the post I wrote about all the angst I’m feeling about going to Blogher ’12 is featured! And it’s my birthday today so I’m feeling pretty dern chuffed, if you want to know the truth! [...]

Thank you to everyone who linked up their favorite posts to help Mama Wants This and The Momalog to celebrate our one year anniversaries! We had such an overwhelming response – 124 bloggers linked up their favorite posts! That’s right, you heard me… 124 bloggers linked up!! Wow! The response was overwhelming, the Twitter-buzz was [...]

One of my hopes for the new year is to grow my blog audience. I’m not sure exactly how I’m going to do it, but a little voice keeps whispering in my mind: I-think-I-can. Not by following any real guidelines in my Blogging for Dummies book – just by writing from the heart.

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