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blogging
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blogging
Everybody’s doing it
03.15.11 | Permalink | 4 CommentsLast night I was reading a trashy novel on my iPod while Tom watched a TV show on his laptop. In my book, the heroine’s brother had been incarcerated for hacking into Twitter and bringing it down for 48 hours. Just then a character on Tom’s show talked her way into a trendy restaurant by [...]
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blogging, business
Because Molly wanted to practice her ventriloquism
02.15.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsQ: “Why should I be Utah’s Next Top Sassy?” A: “World Peace.” Also too, I like the concept of supporting local businesses; it’s probably a good idea to promote and patronize them so that when the apocalypse is nigh, you’ll have a reliable source for fuel and Mountain Dew. (Maverik gas station is local to [...]
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blogging
This would be a good place for something profound
05.31.10 | Permalink | Comments OffTomorrow we begin our forty-day electricity fast. I feel like there were several things I meant to do and write and plan for before this started, but today was busy with family and barbecuing and recovering from the CBC and shrugging when my mom couldn’t stop remarking on how large my 28-week belly looks. I [...]
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Being Mormon, blogging
Every little thing you do is grating
05.02.10 | Permalink | 18 CommentsThere are so many things I want to write about (Susan’s experience learning to read and tie her shoe left-handed, my gardening/composting misadventures, Sally’s complete apparent brainwashing into the public school system at the tender age of nine, my disinclination to have Spot’s speech assessed though maybe it should be, and a hundred other little [...]
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blogging, twitter
Why I’ll never succeed in business
02.12.10 | Permalink | 21 CommentsToday I was offered share in a company while I worked the StartupPrincess swag table at the Seth Godin lunch for Haiti. (Think of that as background information, not name-dropping). A man approached me, saying he felt impressed to tell me about his great idea for a Twitter/Facebook-type networking site that would fill a niche [...]
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blogging
Follow-up to Motherlode Story; Thoughts on the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers
12.11.09 | Permalink | 14 CommentsThere’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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blogging
Actual Unretouched PR
10.12.09 | Permalink | 15 CommentsSee 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 [...]
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