The Victim Culture
This began as a comment in a friend’s locked post. I’ve edited it a bit since this is public, but there’s something that has been on my mind since the flood of “No Pity, No Shame, No Silence” entries. As…
Birthday Girl!
I hope it’s a marvelous day for you, wordweaverlynn!
Interesting Article
We Waste Our Children’s Time Does High School Do More Harm Than Good? Racism, violence, sexual harassment, drugs—everything you encounter in the outside world is in high school. Despite changes in our society and our children, high school has existed…
Interview Done
It went very well. This was the most professional crew I’ve worked with, other than the BBC folks. It’s scheduled to air around 2 pm EST tomorrow (Saturday, August 7) on CNN. If the time changes, I’ll re-post. We got…
MEEP!
It seems that 11 Alive did a spot about FreeCycle this evening. I didn’t hear anything about it in advance, so I missed it. We’ve had more than 300 membership requests just tonight. We have 2,467 members now.
Business Stuff
Did I ever really mention that ridinrabbit, curiousmay9 and I have our own business? It’s Jill of All Trades. The Rabbit can fix just about anything around your house. If you need something around your house repaired, renovated, added on,…
Shiny!
Happily, the cleaning service seems to have taken the come-to-Jesus talk quite seriously. The maids were here for at least three hours, probably more. The house absolutely sparkles. I love it! They even cleaned the empty fridge for us. Yes,…
Busy Friday
My girl is home! YAY! She had a great time, as usual. sambear got some really good shots of her during the horse show before his camera batteries ran out. Tomorrow today is going to be busy. A TV crew…
Publisher, Author, and Lawyer Try to Strongarm Individual Out of Her Domain Name
Web publisher Katie Jones has owned the domain name katie.com since 1996. In 2001, the Plume imprint of Penguin Putnam published a book by Katie Tarbox, an 18-year-old who (willingly!) got involved with a cyberstalker when she was 13. The…