After dinner it’s my 4-year-old’s TV time and when I turned it on, I read the headline on CNN: Apple’s Steve Jobs Dies.
Logan loves is iTouch.
“Wow!” I say.
“What is it Mommy?”
I wonder if I should tell him. We’ve already had many conversations about death, so why not?
“Steve Jobs died.”
“Who’s that?”
“Oh.” We both sit silently. He’s watching me and I’m watching CNN, though I can almost hear the wheels in his head … Read more ...
Outside Crystal Cave in Bermuda this kitty ignores the swarming tourists to catch a few winks.
Outside Crystal Cave in Bermuda this kitty ignores the swarming tourists to catch a few winks.… Read more ...
All day I’d been hearing about how Hurricane Ophelia was on her way to Bermuda. I wasn’t too concerned but thought it might be wise to get the opinion of a Bermudian.
The hotel's message board about Hurricane Ophelia.
I turned to my good friend the sound engineer at Club Moon (long story) and he told me: “There’s nothing to worry about, you’ll be completely safe. We’ve had lots of hurricanes and in our history only two people have died.”
OK, that wasn’t quite the … Read more ...
It was 7 a.m. and I was pretending to be asleep because I didn’t want Jane to ask me to go on a run with her. We’d been out dancing until 2 a.m. and though at dinner three of us said we’d go for a morning run, I was praying we’d all be equally hungover and simply sleep.
Front Street in Bermuda.
Then, 9 a.m. arrived and Whitney came into the room, dressed and ready to pound the pavement. I groaned. This is happening. Jane … Read more ...
And to think I almost stayed home.
It was Social Media Week in Chicago, the local slice of a global conference on all things social media. I had done the mental gymnastics to figure out which sessions I could attend considering my two anklebiters and Hubby’s long work days.
There were sessions I really wanted to go to such as Journalism in the Age of Tweet, How to Engage Audiences and Have Fun Doing It, and The Power of Social Media for … Read more ...