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Amy Poehler’s Girl Power Adventure

November 17, 2008
Amy Poehler — the Saturday Night Live star who played Hillary and Katie Couric to Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin — has launched a bold new venture. A web show called Smart Girls at the Party. It features young girls and aims to inspire young girls and is entertaining even if you, like myself, are not […] Read More

$500 House

November 17, 2008
It’s on Hawaii— in a town lyrically named Haiku–built by 22 year-old Chelsea Kohl with her partner Chelsea Heller. The story is in the November issue of Dwell magazine. (The story isn’t yet archived online.) The house is made of found objects including surf boards, a disassembled truck, phone poles, stairs from a sugar mill. […] Read More

Using Facebook, Etc.

November 16, 2008
I just got a notice from MySpace that I must “use it or lose it.” They’re referring to the MySpace page I acquired in a fit of connectedness a year or so ago. The result of that is being officially located in five social networks. (I paid someone to set me up.) I haven’t done […] Read More

Blog Free

November 15, 2008
The tune that’s running through my head is “Born Free,” which is probably from my Peter, Paul & Mary days. Blog Free, however, is my current set of lyrics. As I was just saying to one of my brothers on the phone, the cool thing about this kind of writing is that it’s almost unlimited. […] Read More

Puppy Cam

November 14, 2008
Who wants to be bold all the time? It would lose its zing. Here’s a nice break: a webcam watching a litter of puppies who are at the perfect age to be the ultimate in delightful. They were all asleep when I just peeked in, but stretching and shifting around and propping their heads on […] Read More

Authenticity and The Velveteen Rabbit

November 13, 2008
A charming and inspiring Youtube snippet from The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams Bianco, illustrated with watercolors, read by Meryl Streep, with music by George Winston: “he wished he could become real without these uncomfortable things happening to him.” A classic story–about love and authenticity and a little toy rabbit becoming real, “For a long […] Read More

Trying Too Hard! Too Much! Overkill!

November 11, 2008
Ever felt a trifle nervous on a new job? Told yourself, “Just act normal”? Or worse: “Be funny”? If so, you must read: “I Am So Funny”. “My brief and wondrous career at The Daily Show,” Lauren Weedman writes, “consisted of making jokes about the Amish and trying to get Jon Stewart to love me.” […] Read More

Getting Rid of an Obsession

November 11, 2008
An excellent primer on stopping an obsessive thought is posted on Beliefnet, which is a great place to explore/talk about any sort of spiritual belief or doubt. The ideas in the piece are familiar to me–but then I’m quite a student of obsessions and the stoppage of them. However, I don’t recall seeing them so […] Read More

Host/Hostess Anxiety

November 10, 2008
I find entertaining difficult, not while people are at my house, but in advance of the event. Has to do with cleaning up the house. We live in a log house in the woods and have one large dog and one very-large dog with us in the house; both of them, bless their hearts, are […] Read More

Your Vote Counts: Winning by a GASP

November 8, 2008
In the little I did about campaigning, I was plagued and hindered by the thought that I wasn’t doing any good for my candidate. Phone-banking–well, I did it, but at the same time I know I’ve never been persuaded of anything by somebody calling me from a campaign. Same thing with door-to-door canvassing. However, when […] Read More


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