Respect Your Community Enough not to Invite Shame or Embarrassment to it

How using twitter hashtag hijacking can hurt your community.

I’ve been sick for probably two weeks now (a month if you ask my husband who also says that days just run together when he has to work long weeks and overtime) but while I was lying in bed this weekend I watched many blogging friends on a press junket to cover KFC’s new kids’ [...]

Complaining Doesn’t Mean Regretting

empty swingset

While reading some forums that I’m a member to over the weekend a post stuck out at me. Perhaps it was the tone of the post or perhaps it was the perceived tone of the post on my part but it bothered me nonetheless: “I get a kick out of all the people who spend [...]

My Favorite Muppet: Funny on Friday

Pepe the king prawn

I have an unhealthy obsession with a shrimp – okay, he’s not a shrimp. He is a KING PRAWN (okay). If you know the Muppets then you know I’m talking about Pepe who broke out and came into his own during the movie Muppets from Space. There’s just something all kinds of wrong and yet, [...]

Letter to me: A Tuesday Tunes

writing a letter

Last week I was talking to Amanda (the lovely lady behind Tuesday Tunes) and I saw a writing prompt about writing a letter to your future self that I thought was perfect for how I wanted to look at 2013. However, I’m not quite ready to write to my future self just yet – even [...]

2013: Moving into the next stage of growth

2013

It doesn’t quite feel like a new year yet to me. I purposely didn’t do a “farewell to 2012” yet because to me – some of 2012 is still hanging on much like the cold I’ve had since Christmas. I often tell people that 2012 doesn’t end for me until the last 2 boys celebrate [...]