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Middleton Place
This past weekend, I went to a meetup in Charleston, South Carolina. While I was there, I learned a few things about South Carolina, including that they believe that calling a cockroach something else makes it less of a cockroach (it does not), and that the beach had phenomenal shells. I was only there for…
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Reading (to the kids)
I read to the kids every night. They get to pick out whatever books they want, and once we have a pretty good stack, they pile in my lap and we read. Most of the books we read are Little Golden Books. We have at least 100; bought in a batch. There is a startling…
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Spring Playground
We went to a nearby elementary school today after dinner, since it was finally above freezing. There was a lot of splashing, sliding, exploring, and fresh air. Finally.
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Being Happy
Are you happy? How do you know? Do you know what makes my children happy? Everything. I think about happiness a lot. Part of that is obvious: I’m a Happiness Engineer; a big part of my day revolves around generating or engineering happiness. I really love it, so I tend to dwell on my role.…
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What I do
Last autumn, I wrote a post about being a woman at Automattic, and a bit about applying here (yes! we are hiring). Since then, I’ve been frequently asked what it is, exactly, that I do. I’m a Happiness Engineer. My super-super-super short answer is that I help people with their WordPress.com blogs. This is mostly…
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2013: A Year in Review
Originally posted on WordPress.com News: With 2013 behind us, we can now take a look at our community’s incredible accomplishments over the past year. Here’s the year that was on WordPress.com. 13,704,819 new blogs in 2013 That’s a 36% increase from 2012, during which you created 10 million new blogs. 489,281,136 posts in 2013…
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,300 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…
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The Bontanical Gardens
On Saturday we drove up to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. This was our second visit there; the first was a few months ago when we were driving back home from Wasaga Beach (Ontario). We decided to go there because there was to be model train exhibit, which did not disappoint. Henry was…
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