My blogging gig with Burpee Home Gardens is still on, because I’ve managed not to kill all my plants.
Herbs, yes. But who needs herbs?
This guy is not just happy to see you.
He’s bursting with vitality, yo.
Posts under ‘Mentionable’
How does your garden blog?
True story: Burpee Home Gardens actually sought me out to blog about gardening.
“Why would they do that?” you ask. (It’s okay. I did, too).
“How would you do that?” you also ask. (Yeah, same here).
And that’s why I’m shimmying on my fire escape everyday to tend to a thriving vegetable garden.
The neighbors are really into it.
Prepare to be amazed, inspired, and really skeptical about the tomatoes making it.
Ocean rower Katie Spotz makes waves, history
Katie Spotz, 22, is the youngest person - and first woman - to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Not bad for the slowest girl on the team!
I had the pleasure of interviewing Katie for I Am A Super Woman. She’s as Super Woman as they come - she’s biked from D.C. to Seattle, ran 150 miles across the Mojave and Colorado Deserts, and was the first person to swim the entire length of the 325-mile Allegheny River.
An excerpt from the interview:
IAAS: What did you do to prepare — both mentally and physically — for rowing across the ocean?
Katie Spotz: I knew that more than a physical challenge, it would be a mental challenge to be alone for so long with just the ocean and my boat. I had to learn to row and work my body, but I also did a lot of meditation. You get blisters. You get seasick. You’re lonely and bored and things break. When the hundredth thing goes wrong, it’s not having strong muscles that’s going to get you through. It’s your mind that gets you across.
IAAS: What were the biggest challenges you faced?
Katie Spotz: One of the most difficult things about rowing across the Atlantic was deciding to do it. I met someone who knew someone who’d done it. After I got over how amazing that was, I felt that I should try it. I had a lot of ideas of who I was and what I was capable of doing, and it just didn’t make sense. I didn’t have boating experience. I didn’t know how to row. There was so much I had to overcome within myself to follow my dream.
Read the rest at I Am A Super Woman!
I get by with a lot of help from my friends
I’ll be blogging here until June 21, but I had to stop in to say…
Thank you!
20 Days of Blogging: Checking In from Amanda Green on Vimeo.
They dance NY
Dancers Among Us is a collection of photographs featuring members of the Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, and Martha Graham Dance Companies dancing their way through NYC.
These photographs were taken without the assistance of trampolines, wires, or other tools.
Subway etiquette posters
NYC artist jayshells has created these subway etiquette posters and is putting them up in subways now.
Helping Haiti
I’m really moved by all the social media talk of helping Haiti today. It’s all over blogs, Twitter, Facebook, the Internet at large.
This is the point of living online.
All aboard the “bad boy Bobby Brown” train
I used to love reading Overheard in New York when it first launched. The novelty wore off as the conversation snippets seemed more and more similar, ludicrous, or racist.
But these quotes from subway conductors - who definitely say funny stuff sometimes - made me laugh:
Save your hide
Some of our worst problems sneak up on us. They’re freaky little failings no one anticipates. Tiny developments we miss a million times.
My first appointment of 2010 - and the first New Year’s resolution I’ll complete - is a skin cancer screening. I’ll be dressed in a robe and checked from scalp to sole for any suspicious spots.
I’ve needed to do this for awhile. I’m blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and have a family history of skin cancer. I grew up in Texas.
In the last few years, I’ve watched my dad undergo biopsies and chemotherapy to treat his skin cancer. He’s had chunks of his face removed. Pieces of his arms, his nose, his neck.
As seen in Schmap New York and Chicago editions
Two of my photos were recently selected for inclusion in Schmap New York and Chicago editions.
Schmap publishes digital, mobile-ready travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
No more walking around with a map, looking like a doofus with a lot of cash.
