This is a piece I wrote for Long Beach Magazine. It was published in the January 2010 issue. A few years back, sitting in the kitchen of a beautiful guest house just outside of Christchurch, New Zealand, I came face to face with some surprising truths about myself. My husband and I were six days [...]
Emma Alvarez Gibson
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Jan 17
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners. – Miroslav Volf These past few days, I’ve been thinking about faith even more than usual. Between the horrors of what’s happening in Haiti and the unfathomably callous and stupid remarks that a few public figures [...]
Jan 14
The Help Haiti Blog Challenge
So Ms. Diels is doing this thing, inspired by Ms. LaPorte, and then Ms. Farough got involved. Logically, then, it’s a smashing idea. All of us small-biz people can surely donate something. (Even if you can’t afford to? You can probably afford to. Because someone needs it more than you do.) So here’s what I’m [...]
Jan 14
The Biggest Reason I Love Social Media
It’s not because social media has been the most important factor in building my business. (Although it has.) It’s not because it levels the playing field in so many ways. (Although it does.) And it’s not because I’m now very much in touch with the quotidian habits of people I have not seen in twenty-five [...]
Jan 01
No resolutions.
There’s something about the concept of resolutions that seems overly fussy to me; stingy, almost. I’m a spirit-of-the-law type, and do not do well with very specific restrictions aimed at my behavior. [Someone less rebellious might have said "directions" rather than "restrictions" -- but here we are.] What does wonders for me is a general [...]
Jan 01
Always crashing in the meme car
I’m powerless against memes. I LOVE THEM. It’s some holdover from junior high, like slam books and magazine quizzes. Whatever. I LOVE THEM. So when Michelle told me she’d tagged me for this one and promised it didn’t suck, I was like, Whah? Some memes suck? happy to oblige. 1. If you were only allowed [...]
