Revelry Reverie

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…

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…

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…

We have an island in our kitchen, and sometimes it turns into a race track.

Every night, my son and I sneak out of the nursery and head downstairs. He asks for either a peanut butter graham sandwich or a regular peanut butter sandwich. We sit quietly in the kitchen together, he in his jammies, and listen to the sound of his muffled crunching. He always asks for a paper…

A year ago was my official start date at Automattic. The past year has been the fastest yet. I’ve never been as happy as I have since joining Automattic – finally I am as content at work as I am with everything else in my life; it was the missing component. As I was reflecting…

Two years and one day ago, I took this photo: Two years ago, at 4:03 pm and at 4:15 pm, Henry and Eleanor were born, respectively. I thought they’d be tiny and baffling forever. It’s been an amazing two years. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve been terrified a lot. I have not slept much.  …