Did you hear the news? Facebook's expecting! Just when we can't handle yet another pregnancy announcement, we find out that our beloved social network has potentially millions of buns in the oven. Facebook added this new "Expecting" feature with virtually no notice to their … Read More »
Archives for August 2011
Moving Beyond the Theresa Erickson Scandal: A Call for Community Healing
I've had a lot to think about the Theresa Erickson baby selling scandal since my post Wednesday. I realize the power of my words: I've had several colleagues in this field say as much to me. We are all still raw with emotion. With a few more days to process, including the variety … Read More »
Betraying the Community: My Response to the Theresa Erickson Scandal
What do you do when you learn that someone you respected had violated your trust, had betrayed not only you, but your entire community? . . . I had only a few minutes to do a quick scan of Facebook this afternoon at work, as we are in the thick of staff training for the month … Read More »
The Storyteller Within Us
We are always telling stories. If you think about it, blogging is a kind of virtual storytelling. We post the stories of our lives. We embellish, we censor and sometimes we just very candidly lay everything out there with abandon. We choose our words with care for they carry the … Read More »
I’m Just a Retrograde Renogade
Today officially kicks off the busy season at work. I'll be in training from 9am to 5pm all day today, getting our newest batch of para-professionals ready for another year of college residential madness. To that end, as I noted this time last year, my posts will be a bit … Read More »
Summer Doldrums
So... the Blog Hop Extravaganza of Talent seems not to have taken off, as evidenced by the lack of videos uploaded to the Vimeo group. Including my own :-D So, let's call it a bust - no harm, no foul. It's all good; I'll eventually post a video of me in all my opera-singing … Read More »
For Gil, Who Introduced Me to Blogging
In making the big move over to WordPress, I wanted to take a minute to thank the woman who introduced me to blogging. Before there was Mel's ALI Blogroll, before there was The SITS Girls, before my video, before meeting and getting to connect with so many of you, before all of … Read More »
