Greetings all staff and stakeholders of Coddled Teenage Boy Enterprises: It has come to my attention that there has been some confusion about your roles and responsibilities within the organization, which has led to infighting, yelling, and name-calling—this happened just yesterday, prior to 7 AM. Such behavior is both Read more »
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The Shadow Knows: Watching Superbad with My Son
by Ann Handley April 3, 2008 » Add more comments.
When I was a kid, in the 70s, I used to swipe my older brother’s Mad magazines. A lot of the humor was over my head, but that only added to the allure: This was a peep show into an unknown world, and I was lusting to grow up. Read more »
Is 18 the New 8?
by Ann Handley February 28, 2008 » Add more comments.
In her book released last fall, Deceptively Delicious, Jessica Seinfeld slips chickpeas into her chocolate chip cookies and purees butternut squash into her mac and cheese. The general premise is that kid food is fried and white. But if you can slip in something on the sly—say, cauliflower into Read more »
How I Invented Blogging
by Ann Handley February 13, 2008 » Add more comments.
The fabulous Toby Bloomberg solicited this from me more than a year ago for a site she was publishing, Blogger Stories. I asked her to let me reprint a modified version here to answer a question I’ve been getting a lot lately, “So how’d you get into blogging, Read more »
4 x 4 Secrets About Me, And Why I’m Uncomfortable Talking About Myself
by Ann Handley February 4, 2008 » Add more comments.
Over the weekend, my friends Peter Kim and BL Ochman independently tagged me “It” in two blog games (called memes). The object of each is for the tagged writer to reveal personal bits about themselves that you wouldn’t know otherwise, and then to tag other blog authors to similarly Read more »
Alpha Females
by Ann Handley January 29, 2008 » Add more comments.
Two or three years ago, I found myself on a list of people who take turns cooking in a soup kitchen. And so, every few months, I do. I can’t say I particularly look forward to it. But to beg off the list at this point would require a Read more »
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