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Recent CurrentMom posts on Google books and intergenerational privacy; Also, the CurrentMom2010 conference looks interesting to me.

CurrentMom; Some of My Recent Posts

Awhile back I mentioned that a buddy had asked me to contribute to a group blog she was organizing. That effort has been rebranded as CurrentMom and I’ve been posting there weekly for the last little while. Here are some of my recent posts:

Technology-Enabled Oversharing? Nah. — On whether we’re all posting too [...]

Loud, Loud, Loud!

Cover of One, Two, Three! (Boynton on Board)

And so begin the Toddlerisms!

TLG has a new-ish-to-us Sandra Boynton book called “One, Two, Three!” It counts up to 10 and says something about each number, like ‘one is good for a quiet walk’ and ‘eight makes a very fine class in ballet.’ For number 10 it [...]

Too Many Books

Cover of Europe: A History

I’ve written a version of this post at least half a dozen times, but here we go again..

We need to get rid of some more books in our house. We’re having new floors put in on the main level and the upstairs in a few weeks, which means that [...]

Upcoming Trilogy

I don’t have time to read books anymore unless they’re about parenting/kid’s health or needed for work. It’s really starting to drive me a little bonkers, but I don’t see windows of time+energy+inclination opening anytime soon. Eventually, yes, but not soon. But I can still scan the intarwebz in my little sliced up moments of [...]

Book Promotion in the 21st Century

A little while ago, while perusing some parenting forum/mailing list or another, I came across a link to author Sarah Pekkanen’s site promoting her first novel which will be released in 2010. Her book apparently fits within the Jennifer Weiner style of chick-lit. I enjoyed the first Jennifer Weiner I read – I think [...]

This and That

One of my projects while on maternity leave (haha – I know how laughable this concept is, but allow me my delusions) is to one way or another get through a large pile of unread periodicals. I figure, if I don’t read them while I’m on leave and not working, then I’m never going to [...]