today is a special day in sweden. we have lots and lots of bonfires. i am not really sure why though. i have asked many of my swedish friends, but no one seems to be able to really answer the why of the fires. (not that i am complaining. i LOVE bonfires!) anyway, i was [...]

the link has always been an important part of my research, both from the point of view of community finding and in discourse analysis. in my latest research project, however, i am beginning to look at links in a different way. i am beginning to see them used less and less in core community members. [...]

my daughter just woke up from a nightmare. i picked her up and rocked her back to sleep, whispering promises to never let anything hurt her, kissing her forehead, petting her hair. it is these moments, the ones where she leans against me with complete trust, that make my heart swell. one of the greatest [...]

i love the way she writes. i don’t go in as often as i should, but i feel such a warmth from her writing each time i do…

ok, it is your turn to convince me that romance is not dead. i was a hopeless romantic…endlessly hopeful, tirelessly optimistic, but not really any more. nothing has really happened to make me feel this way and maybe that is exactly the point…nothing has happened. so i am reaching out to you guys. if [...]

i have heard that when things in the environment change and when something not so nice is going to happen, it always happens to the frogs first. they are our little warning flags (which is a shame, i love frogs as anyone who has spent the night and seen my collection of froggy [...]

yeah, i have exciting things to say…or at least i think i do. i am looking at conversations in a particular group of blogs and they are so not what i thought they were going to be! which is kind of fun, especially when it counters a lot of what i had previously thought…but is [...]

procrastination has such a dirty connotation. because if you procrastinate, you are obviously not doing what you ’should’ be doing…but today in my highly panicked state of mind (presentation on friday) i decided to stop what i was doing (as i could actually see my thoughts swirling in black infinity) and go for a run. [...]