So I said the other day that a friend linked to this blog under my real name, even though this is an intentionally pseudonymous space.
All along I have been much more concerned about the real name –> blog scenario than the blog –> real name one. Readers of this blog could find out my […]

Recently I took part in a roundtable discussion at the Alban Institute about secular and spiritual narrative. We were talking about technology as a means of telling one’s story and the conversation drifted to Facebook. A boomer-aged male said, “At least with blogs you do have some narrative element, but Facebook is for people who […]

I’ll be hitting 10,000 comments soon. The lucky winner gets a box of goodness.
You know what to do!

The first sentence of the first post from each month this year:
I am back with the kidlets. The travel was better than that of a week ago, even with only one parental unit. Grandmothers helped on each end of the trip.
tell me when it’s time,
i say;
Do you have ANY idea how tempting it was […]

OK, I am delinquent in sending out little goodies to my 8,000th commenter(s). I pondered it a lot and never came up with any terribly creative ideas, so I will be acting on my uncreative idea in the next few days.
In the meantime, I am about to hit comment #9,000, so comment early, comment often, […]

The experiment (read about it here):
It’s been two weeks since I cooked this thing up. This week has been a challenge. C came to work with me yesterday morning (daycare provider had a doctor’s appointment) and she’s pretty self-entertaining for a four year old, but it’s impossible to do head-down concentration work with her around, […]

Read about the experiment here. I started last Thursday, and it’s Saturday now.

I am enjoying life with less Internet. I feel a tiny but perceptible change in mental state. Actually there hasn’t been much difference there, yet. But I thought I would feel bereft without the constant stimulation and flow of information, and I […]

Today was my first work day since the experiment began.
I must admit, even though I worked from home, and spent part of the day at a prenatal appointment and a lunch, I ended up checking my e-mail several times today. And I did it much like I usually do; whenever I felt a lull, or […]

Read about the experiment here.

There is no “day two report” since I was way offline yesterday. I think I popped on once and had to do some work stuff.
I did go see “Waitress” with Keri Russell, which was fluffy fun, especially for a preggo chick like me. The woman bakes pies. Scrumptious, amazing pies. And […]

(Go to the previous post if you don’t know what the experiment is.)

Today went pretty well. Since I had a bit of a backlog of e-mail, I actually worked on (mostly work) e-mail off and on throughout the day. So tonight I allowed myself just 30 minutes for e-mail and other web tasks.
That’s cheating, technically, […]

Several weeks ago I read this article about a writer, Stephen Elliott, who gave up the Internet for a month.
It was a neat read—I find myself wanting to quote the whole thing though…

So what did I do during my month offline? “You must be getting so much done!” was the refrain I heard constantly. That […]