One of the best things about attending BlogHer Pro in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago (besides getting to meet BlogHer Executive Editor Julie Ross Godar and my fellow GenFab bloggers Darryle Pollack, Jennifer Comet Wagner, Virginia Sullivan, Cynthia Louden and Anne-Marie Kovacs) was that I got to spend time with my sister, Sheila,…
Talk about being late to the party! I serendipitously discovered Jen Kehl’s Twisted Mix-tape Tuesday – a weekly Blog Hop where bloggers compile playlists based on a specific theme – when That Cynking Feeling shared my Joni Mitchell tribute last week. Suddenly, I was immersed in playlists and loading my iPod with new finds and forgotten…
Grab a cup of tea, sink into the sofa and get lost in “10 Poems to Change Your Life.” Convinced that “Great poetry can alter the way we see ourselves,” Roger Housden has compiled an eclectic collection of poems from a who’s who of poets including Mary Oliver, Galway Kinnell and Pablo Neruda. Housden uses…
If you think you have trouble finding a bra that fits, imagine what the women at homeless facilities have to go through. Beverly Williams, who volunteers at a shelter in the San Francisco Bay area, saw firsthand the need for bras in all different sizes to fit the many women who requested them. After brainstorming…
I don’t remember the first time I heard Joni Mitchell because it seems like her songs have always been there, in the background, providing the soundtrack to my life.