speaking gigs

Listen to me (even if I’m not your mother)

April 8, 2013

Blogging may not pay the bills (unless you count the occasional quarters I can afford to throw at my kids to buy trinkets from gumball machines) but some really cool things come from it. Case in point: I am going to be in a show. Like, up on a stage in which people have paid [...]

Adding a dimension to the open adoption spectrum

January 12, 2013

My word for 2012 was write, and my word for 2013 is speak. I aim to talk with people about the benefits of openness in adoption (which is not necessarily the same as “open adoption,” as you’ll see below) to anyone involved in adoption who will listen. So imagine my delight when Erica of Parenthood [...]

BlogHer12: Bright sites, big city

August 7, 2012

When you are completely spent and sated at the same time and can’t put a coherent thought together, you might as well use bullet points. BlogHer12 was my favorite yet (also in the ring were BlogHer08 and BlogHer10). I focused not on the parties or the swag or the $$ contacts or even the host [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: My StarCon experience

September 25, 2011

Now I know how Trekkies feel. Not during their “real” lives, but while at StarCon. I got to spend the weekend with one of my clans. A bunch of mostly strangers with a common experience and passion and language and pointy ears. Well, maybe not that last one, but a bunch of people who really [...]

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