December 2008
78 posts
Hope all on roads travel safely
November 2008
57 posts
Still asking questions, hearing stories that few find
Listening, sleeping, traveling →
Life unravels quickly. New software, new ideas pop up faster then I can keep up because the only routine is that there is none. I am back in Tennesee. The first day I had the fever my daughter…
Now discovering great followers and influencers in my network with @MrTweet, my networking assistant. Get yours at http://mrtweet.net?c=6 !
Finding I can get by without newspapers for weeks! at a time
the rash of ways of tracking friends across programs suggests I am not alone
almost done arranging memories for dad’s service
No sales in the mountains
my turn to drive. She will sleep
is it the darkness that surrounds the car that allows thoughts to flow freely from daughter to mom?
Leaving Michigan for 5 > days in Tenn
Deal: Stop asking how I am doing. If I stop to think about answer I will stop coping
Back on road - checking out new cancer program with daughter
home for 7 hours after 30 days away
540 more miles today on clear roads
thank you Kentucky for free wifi at rest stop
And soon the world explores into mass confusion of more packing. Oh yeah.
Whose leading the Girl Scouts now? →
Catching up with some of the Girl Scout convention action instead of packing :-) Just in case you don’t keep up with all the e-mail lists and blogs about Girl Scouts and read every word in the the…
cool! I got the hot shower today
Crashing into cold-meds sleep, while baby pix dance in head
Time to tell Calif: Still no vet $, no car, no lottery, no cure for alzhiemers, still an American whose insurance was lost when firm sold
snow in Tenn? Not expected by me!
off to pack more boxes, shred more papers
Newspapers as infrastructure @dpoulson http://tinyurl.com/5rsdt5
Ho ho - scoble, facebk, twitter & more 12 days social media christmas http://tinyurl.com/67wt6r
collecting lines that medical folks should not say - ever!
Off to read something - anything - that helps me get past the weight of cancers, death, layoffs, media and doctors lost in their own words
1 blog per subject? Or 1 blog for all rambling?
Observations of distractions: 0 →
I listen, I read, I watch videos. I follow one thought to the next . I let the hours slide by. Then, wonder why. Is it really a lust for learming? A curiosity for knowing? What am I to do with…
Celebrating successes of friends and family
Seeking signs of humans in corporations, hospitals, government.
If we recognize that each does what is best for them at the moment, how can we expect more?
For the record: Jelly was better →
Given a choice, I’d rather be the jelly in the sandwich. It’s not my choice. I can only choose to focus on now, this second. That’s enough. Breathe. Pray.
Watching jeff dunham. I need to laugh
Who replaced my blood with ice water?
Right now I would welcome the distraction of a complicated work project that meant something
Seeking Pollyanna,
Sandwich woman: Spread between cancers →
Cancer now links my daughter and my father. I am equally helpless with both. Jelly. I watch my daughter joking, hearing between the words the fear of the unknown. I watch her face as she shares…
I’ve lost zest for digital storyweaving,too many chefs
Fill my ceiling with Twitter, more →
I watch the world waken as Twitters slide into my account. Sometimes another screen holds Facebook statuses. Pump in Friendfeed and RSS On days like today, when only my mind escapes the concrete…
I watch the world waken through Twitter
The past creates shadows on today →
I am breaking a lot of self-imposed rules, ironically while reading others who write about online friendships. I am writing on the iPhone (makes it hard to cite URLs) but last night as I review…
Online college course by december 10
Help! Need college course starting 1-56 weeks online
Culture shock: Living with 24-year-olds, living... →
I did not expect smooth sailing when I moved in with my daughter and her boyfriend. It is surprising, to me, the things that shock me. Like, I have learned to bring my own reading material now to…
No,Wired is not a home improvement magazine
I am spoiled by big cities. The waiting room magazine is from 2002!
I left Wired. Now hospital has 1 2008 magazine :)
Meet a StoryWeaver →
A big part of the effort at the Girl Scouts annual convention is to use story to connect people. In Convention Talk, the online discussion board for Girl Scouts, I wrote: Remember back in…
GS Central unfolds in Indy →
It’s been inspiring to watch the Indy convention center unfold into Girl Scout Central. The city too! I came back to my hotel tonight to discover a request to share my unused lotion, shampoo,…