Mo’s Musings
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9 years of WordPress.com
I got this note the other day reminding me that I started using WordPress.com 9 years ago. The friend I was helping set up his site still uses the same theme, so you can see the first post almost exactly the same way it looked in 2009. I’ve learned a lot about writing for the…
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Building communities one pixel at a time
There are a million things I love about my job, but the thing I love the most (right now at least) is that it gives me a way to help people use technology to realize their own dreams and the dreams of their communities. I wasn’t able to be in Detroit for this project, but I spend…
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Add a little happy
Several months ago one of my co-workers recommended a little browser extension that says nice things to you every time you open a tab. Sounded a little silly, and wasn’t sure that randomly generated nice thoughts from a glass of water would make that much difference, but I was wrong. I love them. Sometimes I take…
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My First Feminist Role Models
In honor of International Women’s Day I want to tell you about a group of women who played a major role in how I became the woman I am today: The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity. Specifically the ones who taught at Lindsay Holy Family School in the very early 1980s. I’m not sure they set…
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Dinner Conversation
I don’t understand people who say the reason they don’t like cats because cats don’t have personalities. I mean have they met any cats? Sure they might all be plotting to kill us in our sleep, but the way each one goes about it is quite different.
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A Day in the Life
This post is part of a series describing what Automatticians do on a daily basis. You can read more posts like this by following the tag #a8cday on WordPress.com and Twitter. 7:30 AM: This is when I intend to get up. If I set the coffee pot to brew the night before, I often manage…
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Miss you Dad!
It’s almost impossible for me to believe it’s been 10 years since dad passed on. In some ways it feels like he’s been gone forever, and then other times like I could pick up the phone and call him (well, no because he was deaf and the phone was a nightmare for him). It makes…
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Random thought while drinking coffee
What if the goal of life is to experience it rather than to win at it. Discuss.
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That’s How I got to Automattic
Several events have converged over the last week or so that have resulted in this wildly overdue “How I became a Happiness Engineer” post. One is you may have noticed my blog has a shiny new domain name. My employer, Automattic, is the company behind the new .blog top level domain and they gave each…
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Unified Theory of Casserole
As part of the Automattic Grand Meetup, every Automattician gives a short (no longer than 4 minute) speech about any topic they choose. I did three and 1/2 minutes on my favorite food group: casserole. Enjoy!
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Winter
It’s Winter. At least for me. The emotional kind. I long for summer but wishing does not make it so. What to do when wishing proves unfruitful. Settle in for the season. Find the small joys only possible in this lifeless time. Tea. Silence. Fires. Christmas. Everything thaws in time.
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I’m not sleepy
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