Revelry Reverie

Automattic made the top 10 list of women-friendly start-ups! While I do feel very comfortable here (I came from a very conservative oil & gas supplier), we have some progress to make. What’s key is that Automattic is dedicated to being open about this, and working on sustainable, scalable solutions. (And yeah, Automattic is still…

My kids love The Very Hungry Caterpillar so much, that even though we own the pop-up version, they checked the “regular” version out of the library. They also love the app (it’s cute and worth the price – or maybe only worth it to us because my children have a serious problem with the caterpillar),…

Bob: Eleanor, what does it mean to “try” Eleanor: it means you do. She’s already channeling Yoda.

NextDraft tipped me off that it’s the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima. A long time ago, I wrote my thesis in grad school on American literature and the way story telling changed after World War I and World War II. For ancillary reading, I read John Hersey’s Hiroshima, which is utterly devastating. The New Yorker is re-running it here. I…