Category Archives — "Personal"

They really aren’t kidding when they say Web 2.0. Even compared to just 5 years ago, the internet is a shadow of it’s former self. The term social networking began with sites like MySpace, and while every networking site out there has it’s positive purposes, for a parent it can be worrisome. My two daughters are taking after their mom in the sense that they love

Sad Anniversary

This entry is definitely on the deeply personal side, but even 32 years later it continues to be a dark day every July 13th, and one that I’ve decided to finally write about and share. On that day back in the summer of 1977, I was a little girl enjoying the vacation from school and in general, a charming childhood. Raised by my mom, and who by now was “Dad” to me, my stepdad who adopted me when they married, I had only a few vague memories of my biological father. My mom had divorced him when I was 4, and remarried when I turned 5.

My older daughter, now 18 (cries), was only 8 years old when I started out on the web. She’s had many interests throughout her growing up years. She’s a wonderfully talented photographer and an amazing writer. Writing was my dream from that age through much of adulthood, up until I discovered design. I used to write mass amounts of poetry growing up, in very descriptive emotionally charged styles. She too began writing poetry at around the same age, and of course as she got older and hit the teen years, much of it became very dark, even if she herself has always been a very well balanced happy kid.

I recently read a brilliant quote by Thomas Edison. He was asked how it had felt to fail 700 times in his discovering electricity. He said