Confessions of an IT Girl

Tomorrow, IT Boy is having (minor) surgery to have tubes inserted into his ears.  He’s always been prone to ear infections, and until this year, we resisted taking an aggressive approach to solving the problem, instead relying on nasal spray and antibiotics to dry him up.  Unfortunately, that wasn’t working any more, and with him …

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Regular readers of this blog know that I am in a mixed marriage.  Sure, my husband is Jewish and I am not, but that’s not what I am talking about.  He’s a Boston/New England sports fan, and I am, for the most part, not.  When we met in 1990, we had one very big sport in common …

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Anyone who attended last year’s Disney Social Media Moms Celebration will tell you that one of the highlights of the conference was the performance by Susan Egan and Georgia Stitt.  Susan’s a Broadway star who was the voice of Belle in “Beauty and the Beast” and Megra in “Hercules”.  She has a beautiful voice and it’s …

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I’m really not one for making new year’s resolutions.  But sometimes, it just feels right. Like most parents, I spend a lot of time nagging Soccer Girl to clean up her room.  And like any 12 year old, she loathes me for it. I get it, I really do.  I’m not a neatnik in the …

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Growing up, our family usually spent the holidays at our relatives on Long Island.  We were a blended family, but our cousins on Long Island were as traditionally Jewish as they came.  That means they served huge amounts of food, accompanied by side dishes of loving bickering. Which is why when I took Soccer Girl …

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This is NOT a sponsored post.  This was my son’s birthday present as selected by his sister. My son loves the TV show Chuggington.  It’s about 3 trains who are considered trainees (love the pun) in a town of trains called Chuggington.  He feels very comfortable with toys based on familiar characters and that’s been …

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for the BLOGGY BOOK GIVEAWAY.  Congrats to Carissa!

I’m back on BlogHer today, talking about whether there is a gender gap in literature, or are some columnists just prone to believing that without merit.  Please go and check it out.

All the winners have been contacted, so now is the time to say that EVERYONE WAS A WINNER. Yes, instead of drawing names, I decided that everyone should get copies of the Unofficial Guide to WDW, so books are now on the way to the lucky winners. All of them. Consider it my Valentine’s Day …

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One of the fun things about BlogWorld was getting a chance to talk more about publishing with some cool people.  Here’s a link to a video I did in the Southwest Airlines booth – the audio is dreadful, but fast forward to the 19:00 point and see me.  Flapping.

I’m back from my fan-tab-u-lous tour of southeast Asia, or at least Penang and Singapore.  The trip was amazing, certainly something that I will remember for a long, long time.  But one of the things that stood out the most was the food.  First off, the marketers in the Singapore office are just like marketers …

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Classy graphics, I know!  Click on the link to see a PDF of the random number generator.  But it’s a fact – Adaobi is the winner!  Enjoy your webcam – you’ll be getting it very soon! Doc1

If you want an idea of how things have changed around these parts, keep reading.  Two years ago, I was griping all over the Interwebs about SXSW, the annual “spring break for geeks” in Austin Tx.  How the sessions were lame, how there wasn’t enough meat to the conference, how I just didn’t get that the real …

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Gee, January wasn’t such a great month for blogging.  I’m grateful to have had many visitors during the month, but I hang my head in shame for not giving them more to ponder.  Most friends who follow me on Twitter and on Facebook know that there’s nothing that should  keep me from writing, other than …

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