community & connection

Can an Online Community Make You Healthier?

Nov 19th, 2008 | By Kat | Category: community & connection

It’s the holidays.  In a stunning display of counterintuitive thinking, my husband and I have started a diet and exercise program.
Well, I say “a program,” but the truth is, our respective approaches to fitness and health are rather different.  He’s doing the Power90 fitness video series, and bought “Glycemic Index Dieting for Dummies” (I swear [...]



Happy Freakin’ Birthday to Me.

Nov 10th, 2008 | By Kat | Category: bard's tales, community & connection

Yes, that’s right.  It’s my birthday.  
All in all, it’s been a better birthday than I typically get.  I’ll be flying out to Las Vegas today to attend Pubcon 2008, the conference for webmasters.  
You know, a lot of people hate the term “webmaster.”  I’ve always been kind of fond of it.  It sounds vaguely [...]



From a whisper to a scream

Oct 9th, 2008 | By Kat | Category: community & connection

This month, there will be plenty of bloggers writing about breast cancer.  With Halloween coming on, many will probably write about fear.  I doubt many will be writing about the fact that it is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month.  
The thing I love about Kirtsy.com (formerly Sk*rt) is also, unfortunately, the thing I hate about it–it [...]



Stumbling towards community.

Sep 24th, 2008 | By Kat | Category: community & connection

Generation X is stuck between the metaphorical rock and a hard place.  
As the first latchkey/daycare generation, we long for the authentic, intimate community that typically our families of origin didn’t provide.  However, we also have no real model for how to create community.  
So we’re try-ers.  We experiment a lot with things that we [...]



Would you rather be Scarlet O’Hara, or Melanie Wilkes?

Aug 1st, 2008 | By Kat | Category: community & connection

Gone with the Wind was one of my favorite movies growing up.  I liked the movie so much, I actually waded through all of Margaret Mitchell’s novel as well (and the sequel by Alexandra Ripley, which in my opinion, was better than most people gave it credit for.)
A thought struck me out of the blue [...]