When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. That’s what they say, but what if you don’t like lemonade? And even if you did, maybe it turns out that when life handed you these damn lemons, it also took with it the sweetener. Lemonade made without sugar makes your mouth hurt and makes your eyes water.…
Would you like to continue on this bumpy ride with me?
FeedBurner, a service that, up until this month, managed a portion of my email subscriptions, sent a notification stating that it will no longer handle email subscriptions as part of its services. In the recent email they sent, the FeedBurner folks said things like, "we recommend downloading your email subscribers so that you can migrate…
I’m fine
I haven't been able to write. My whole life is so different, and one of the many ways it’s different is that words just don't seem to work anymore. I type words, read them, and delete them; this goes on and on because words don't mean what they used to. I'll sit down to write…
Sometimes you’re just not the right reader.
*If you want to read The Sun Also Rises with an open mind, unfettered by the strong opinions I share, read the book first, then come back. Justified or not, I have high expectations for a classic book. It’s weathered the test of time and it still sells. People still choose to read it, and…
The Schedule Olympiad
One day after successfully executing a complicated scheduling maneuver involving multiple families, siblings, transportation, food, tests, equipment, you name it… my friend looked me in my exhausted eyes and said, “you know, if they awarded medals to moms for scheduling, we’d have just earned gold!” That’s when the idea was born: competitive scheduling. We could…
Hi there! Have a latte.
Hi! It’s been so long. I’ve almost forgotten how to write anything but to-do lists. Last year my blog’s host notified me that the price to have this tiny space in the cybersphere was going up. The price went from one latte a month to about five lattes a month. (I measure all things in…
Dirt Road Diary 