July 2009

BlogHer’09: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh

07.31.2009

[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.

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Racism

07.29.2009

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?

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Fashion Fouls: The Older I Get, the Easier It Is to Make Them

07.22.2009

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.

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Tweet @MidLifeBloggers at #BlogHer09

07.22.2009

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 Outside The Lines” but the real title is “Lifeblogging Outside the Lines.”  Whatever–the point is that staying within the [...]

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I Come From Here: a poem

07.15.2009

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.

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Introducing: The MidLifeBloggers Writer’s Workshop

07.13.2009

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.

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To Dye or Not: An Update

07.07.2009

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…

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MidLifeBloggers.com: Our Mission Statement

07.05.2009

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.

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Pimp That Post!

07.01.2009

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 here internets thing. The drill is this: go read the post (okay, you don’t have to read it; just look [...]

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