President Obama awards a 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom to former University of Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, May 29, 2012.
Amazing coach, amazing ambassador for women’s basketball.
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Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author: Regret. -
Kathryn Schulz, as quoted by Maria Popova:
If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for…
“Writing is the connective tissue that creates understanding. We, as social creatures, often better perform rituals to form understanding one on one, but good writing enables us to understand each other at scale.” —
Rands In Repose: Please Learn to Write
I read a lot of blogs of all kinds - tech/web design, food, lifestyle, etc. - and so so so many people don’t know how to write. I don’t just mean they have poor grammar or can’t spell (although that comes into play), but that they have no idea how to write a coherent blog post. Sure, it may largely be an informal medium, but your words are being projected to, in some cases, thousands of people.
Learn to write!
Got a rando FB friend request from a ~70 year old whose likes include Mormonism and Fox News.
Yeah, pretty sure we’re not going to be friends.
The music editor is no longer located in the office next to mine, so I no longer feel shame in blasting top 40 hits from the early 2000s.
Bold = I’ve done.
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Got a tattoo
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
Not gonna lie, more than a little hooked on Lip Service.
Roadside BBQ: South Jersey's secret gastronomic weapon — NewsWorks -
Summer to-do.
Realizing I’ve always had a thing for Scottish accents.
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“
Anna Davies’s “Wrecked” (Simon & Schuster, 325 pages, $16.99) begins in classic tragic teen fashion, with a boozy beach party, an upsetting tarot-card session and a nighttime boating excursion that ends in disaster. When her boat sinks, Miranda O’Rourke is in the process of drowning along with her friends when she feels hands on her hips and sees “a sparkly-skinned boy with dark hair and wide-set blue eyes.” It is Christian, a handsome merman, who is supposed to be performing a soul-collecting service for the sea witch who commands the waves off South Carolina.
That girl and merman will fall in love is, of course, in the cards, but powerful forces seek to thwart them, not least of which is the sea witch herself. The witch can take human form, and, in a device that recurs in these books, she appears in the most impeccably dressed manner. Sea folk are glamorous, even when walking on two legs.
” —“The Mermaid Resurfaces” - WSJ.com
My friend Anna’s new book got a shout-out in the Wall Street Journal!
CONVERT MY SITE TO DREAMWEAVER!
What!?
Dreamweaver != a website. Wtf does that even mean!?