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  Follow-up to Motherlode Story; Thoughts on the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers

  12.11.09 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  There’s a “rest of the story” on Motherlode today, and the picture it paints, in the words of the father and wife involved in the “dirty little secret” post from earlier this week, is heartbreaking, and very sympathy-inducing. Basically, the father was served with papers a few months into his marriage, telling him he was [...]

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  Actual Unretouched PR

  10.12.09 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  See if you can spot all the problems in this pitch:
  Hello Mari,
  I wanted to tell you about a new month-long Bubbles and Bubbly Contest powered by Wisk High-Efficiency detergent, which your readers will surely enjoy. To enter to win, just answer a true or false question that tests your Bubble IQ and no matter if [...]

• blogging, giveaway, health

  Mr. Bennet is duly impressed, but wishes I would stop farting in bed

  07.31.09 | Permalink | 40 Comments

  (Pre.S. 1 There’s a Thanksgiving Point giveaway at the end, so skip to that if you get bored.)
  (Pre.S. 2 Mr. Bennet needs to come to terms with the fact that even celebrity mommy bloggers fart.)
  Yesterday I took Sally and Susan to a mommy-blogger PR tour at Thanksgiving Point, and the full disclosure is that they [...]

• blogging

  I’m Nobody!

  07.27.09 | Permalink | 30 Comments

  About a century ago (in mommy-years) I wrote my honors thesis at BYU on Emily Dickinson and how she was a Transcendental Trinitarian. (Oh, it was ground-breaking and all kinds of awesome).
  Seriously, her poems are terse epics, and it’s been speculated that perhaps she would’ve made a fantastic blogger, what with the letter-writing and the [...]

• blogging, giveaway

  I’m not a follower, I just kind of really love her

  06.25.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  So, a lot of stuff online, especially the marketing and many giveaways and the frequent popularity/value divide and the networking (sometimes) disguised as friendship, it all kind of makes me puke-y. But.
  But. At the risk of sounding like a sheep, I would like to publicly declare that I love Stephanie Nielson. She doesn’t need my [...]

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  When a tantrum (sadly) won’t do

  05.22.09 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  I’ve been working with a (talented, patient, spectacular) designer on my new blog header. Alma is worth every penny she charges, but I was lucky enough to promise Dick’s firstborn child (and some ad space on his blog) for most of the cost.
  But poor Dick. He has been my whipping boy for blog-and-all-purpose technical help [...]

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  The Blog Formerly Known as What About Mom?

  05.10.09 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  Is now Seagull Fountain. I’ll probably expound on that later, but just wanted to give you a heads up if you’re wondering why you suddenly see something called “Seagull Fountain” in your reader. I’m working on a new banner, which is to say that Dick is working on something and also I’m counting my pennies [...]

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