Article Archive for July 2009
[They] founded BlogHer with four purposes in mind: exposure, community, education, and economic empowerment for women bloggers. I think the economic empowerment head is now leading the beast.
The bathing suits are all on sale, but–hey! the Halloween costumes are as well. We at MidLifeBloggers think that Perrie might want to consider going as Mrs. Potato Head this year…
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And then it occurred to me that everyone ReTweeting me on Twitter was assuming I was white. And that makes something I say about African-Americans racist? Isn’t that also the basest racism there is?
The fear in the back of my mind, though, is that I could be that woman in the flowered leggings and gym shorts. Maybe not this minute, but someday. It was almost like a premonition.
I’m off–tra la–to Chicago for the annual BlogHer blowout. This is my fourth BlogHer conference, and they get bigger and bigger and–yikes!–bigger.
My panel is on Friday, 1:15 – 2:30. I want to call it “Coloring …
I come from mailmen and factory workers. Fishermen and mapmakers. War veterans.
I come from stay at home mothers. Writers. Thinkers. Feminists. Nurses. Farm women.
To commandeer one’s thoughts, to harness one’s emotions, to find the words and the syntax that drives them straight into a reader’s mind: it is, I believe, the ultimate power, far greater than physical prowess or financial.
This chic new look has me fantasizing about Japanese designer clothes and moving to Manhattan. And when I’m not thinking about how much I hate my neck, I’m groovin’ on the cropped hair…
MidLifeBloggers is more of a boutique, a salon of sorts, offering well-written, thoughtful, provocative posts (be they prose, poetry, or visual arts) on each and every issue–big and small, real and imagined–that any one of us is experiencing as we are wending our way through this period in our lives.
Which is what I’m doing right now: pimping my most recent post for More.com….in which I whine about why I’m bad at pimping (my mama done brought me up right)–and why it’s crucial to this …
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