A Special Saturday Odds and Ends

Just didn’t get around to blogging yesterday, so for this week, ”Friday odds and ends” is being replaced by “Saturday odds and ends”.
1) At least my blog didn’t make it onto this list: http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=13523062
2) Because nothing says “I love you”, like a gift with the word “bomb” in it: http://lifehacker.com/5099743/make-your-own-bath-bombs
3) My favorite “Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious” [...]

And now for a word of thanks

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.  I love it because it’s the only “religious” holiday we have that isn’t specific to one religion…it unites rather than divides us.  (I also happen to like it because it kicks off the holiday season, which is my second-favorite time of year, after October…I know, it’s kind of [...]

8 things I never thought I’d say

Sometimes I hear myself saying things that I never imagined would come out of my mouth.  Here are some of my favorites:
1) “If I hear any more fighting over the (INSERT NAME OF TOY HERE), it’s going to toy jail.” -  For the first 10 years of parenthood, I had only one child.  So this whole sibling rivalry thing [...]

An amazing story of love, faith and hope

Some of you may have been following this story.  I learned about it a few months ago while watching the Today show.  Stephanie and Christian Nielsen were critically burned in a small plane crash that killed the pilot.  Before the crash, Stephanie and her sister, Courtney Kendrick, each had popular blogs about parenting and family life.  [...]

Another Friday of odds and ends

It’s been a light blogging week, folks.  The AMA Higher Ed conference wore me out.  I’ll try to do better next week, but here’s today’s hit parade of odds and ends:
1. I couldn’t have said it better myself.  Joseph Jaffe talks about how the Big 3 automakers got themselves into this mess, and how frustrating [...]

This is why I buy generic ibuprofen

No, not really.  But the recent Motrin experience is a great illustration of the power of social media.  In case you haven’t heard, Motrin started running this ad on their Web site on Friday:

By Saturday morning, I started getting Tweets about the uproar it was creating on mommy blogs and in social networking [...]

I finally figured out what it’s about

This blog, that is.
It came to me this morning as I was getting ready to go for a run before leaving for breakfast with my sponsor, followed by an “open” AA meeting (a meeting open to anyone, regardless of whether or not you’re an alcoholic), followed by a blogging seminar, with a quick trip home [...]

Friday odds and ends

1. The song “Frosty the Snowman” was playing in Dunkin Donuts this morning.  Please, please, make it stop.  Pretty soon, the Christmas music will start the day after Labor Day. 
2. Virtual people having virtual sex but thinking it’s all real. I just don’t get it.  http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/14/second.life.divorce/index.html
3.  Thank God this conspiracy theory is finally put to [...]

I will love you no matter what

Today I’m posting an audio story that I heard on a Web site called “The Moth”, a storytelling Web site. (“Storytelling” is a commonly heard buzzword in marketing these days, and someone recommended this site to me at a conference.)
I first listened to this story several months ago, and it has come back to haunt [...]

A couple of relatively unhealthy (but good!) chicken recipes

1. From the White Trash Cookbook (and you know that I mean that in the most positive way possible): Potato Chip Chicken – mayonnaise, cream of chicken soup and potato chips. Heaven in a rectangular glass dish: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Potato-Chip-Chicken-Casserole/Detail.aspx.  FYI – to make this dish a wee bit healthier, I added a bag of frozen broccoli [...]