Intolerance – The Panel I’m Still Having in My Head

BlogHer felt like an overwhelming success to me this year. I had cute shoes. The conference venue was gorgeous and things ran smoothly and were well organized. People were kind and discussions were thought provoking and respectful. (I’ve got a few words to share on the closing session with Elizabeth Edwards [...]

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Intolerance Intervention?

Can I tell you how much I love getting email with the subject line “Re: Intolerance Intervention”? Very much do I love it and I’ve been getting a lot of it lately.
I’m really excited to be speaking on a panel at BlogHer next week and I’d like your help preparing. The topic is [...]

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And the Winners Are…

The random winners of the Roadtrip Giveaway are April C. and Seabird. Congratulations and thanks to everyone for all the great tips!
If for any reason they are unable to fulfill their duties as plastic tube winners, we’ll draw more names at random.

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Well Enough About Me

Let’s talk about you for a minute. (Be sure to answer the questions at the end of the post!)
A while back I asked you all to fill out a survey for me. The results are in and they’re fascinating.
74% of Daring Young Mom readers are between the ages of 21 and 34. [...]

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Monday Business

Erin and I have booked our flights and rooms for BlogHer. Some other fun people will likely be joining us. I’m already taking notes on what I want to learn and picking out shoes. Are you going? Would you like to go? The women at Mommybloggers are generously paying for [...]

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Dan Shoulders My Heavy Load

So normally I’m the one who does all the blogging in the family. Not only do I blog whenever I feel like it on this site but I also blog once a week at parenting.com. Dan skips off to work his 40-60 hours at MegaCorp and I’m left to do all the blogging [...]

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You got a minute or twelve?

So, thanks ever so much for coming and reading and putting up with all the Tom Foolery that goes on here. It would help me out a ton if you’d be willing to take a minute or twelve and fill out a reader survey. It helps me and my advertisers know a little [...]

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Bloggers Get Hungry Too

Sometimes they get hungry together and then you’d better watch out. This weekend I met up with some bloggy friends new and old for a lunch at Ivars in downtown Seattle.
I like Ivars because you can smell fish guts both outside and inside the restaurant, only they smell more appetizing inside and if you [...]

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Welcome Mat

So welcome to the world of the BLOG. Sounds scary, eh? Really it’s not. Take off your shoes and make yourselves comfortable. Pajamas are welcome here. And chocolate.
Topics covered on this site include but are not limited to:
Garage Sales, Solid Food, X-rays, Snow White, Mullets, Karate, Self-preservation, Worm Sweat, Beef [...]

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Chili Mania

It started a few weeks ago. Laylee stood transfixed as I read Chilihead’s blog. “Who is THAT?”
“That’s Chilihead.”
“He he he. She has a CRA-ZY nose!”
“Yep.”
“I like her”
“Me too.”
Laylee can spot Chili’s site from across the room and she’ll run over to watch me read. The other night as I was putting [...]

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