Paula Lee Bright
St. Louis, MO USA
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I am almost 60, and am shocked as hell! I could've sworn I just turned 28. When did this happen? Well, I forge on, ecstatically teaching kids who are failing because they can't read (online!), talkin' the internets, politics, technology, my dog, the Pseudo-Husband,and finding ways to earn a few bucks to support myself in my dwindling years...sigh. ;)
Oh, Jeanette. How well we both know how John feels now. Hugs to you as your family mourns Marti the Amazing, and I hope the pain ends soon and the happy memories prevail. As you know, it takes a long time. ~Paula Lee Bright
My heart breaks for you. I write about this often. Dogs are such a vital piece of my life and my family's. But they give us the strength to carry on. I'm so sorry that happened to you this day.
@learnit2earnit Yes, I have forgotten lots from the worst times of my life. Nature must just delete it, or put it so out of sight that we can't run into it accidentally. Unless (and it's happened) we happen to run into the source of the hideous memory. Now <i>that's</i> a shock to the system! Ughhh.
JessicaNorthey Oh, honey! TELL me about not managing your personal page well. I have people on mine I've never met or spoken to. Don't even remember accepting them. One by one, as they come up, I'm unfriending. But with the new changes—they SEE that I did so. Hate that!
It's worth it to me to tune my personal page back to something I want to read. I miss stuff from true friends and family because it's so cluttered. I remember a time when fan and friends actually communicated there.
Did you *really* say "ONLY let's you have 5000 friends?" Kidding! Kidding. :D
DANG, Margie. Apparently you hit a topic here that I feel strongly about! Sorry to have taken over the airwaves. :/
One other thought. You're in a family business, so you're probably safe as long as the agency is. Too many of us have found that the safety we thought we had was ephemeral. Having a non-personal but relevant page could be viewed as similar to LinkedIn—biz oriented. And let's face it. LinkedIn is nowhere as pervasive as Facebook is.
Wish I hadn't said "Let's FACE it." See how far the influence extends?? ;D
BruceSallan Makes perfect sense to me, Bruce. It's the same way I feel. :)
I just don't really agree, kid. I have a page for my biz. But some people won't be looking me up by my teaching business but by my name. They don't need to know what my nieces and nephews are doing, and my liberal lefty pinko socialist views! ;) But it might be helpful to them to read the things I post about education, reading, struggling readers, and so on.
Having said that, I've *reserved* a page, but—nah, I haven't done it yet! I'm already overwhelmed just by the Facebook demands I already face. I'm getting tons of requests through my contact form on my blog, which is great news for me...and Facebook for my biz purposes is beginning to seem irrelevant.
But I'm not quitting yet. I'll give it a bit more time. There, now! Wasn't THIS a pointless post? But it did help me clarify my thoughts in my OWN mind. So—as always—Thanks, Margie! :D
I'm ideas, especially in my teaching and editing. Identify the problem, brainstorm for a solution, then make it doable for other parties. I LOVE getting through to kids that nobody's ever managed to before. It just needs some creative workarounds other than the usual "school" style channels.
I started to vote, but then found I had to sign in through Facebook or Twitter. I'm getting fed up with feeding Facebook everything I do. It just bugs me, ever since I found out that Mark Zuckerberg wants to control the entire web! Call me ornery, I guess. ;) I'll probably change my mind and come back and vote anyway.
Such a flighty gal, eh?
nickkelletxDeepS Deep, I can't see you on here! (Nick's blog voting page) I'm such a foooolish ole bag, eh? ;)
I'm happy for @xDeepS but what's up? He's not showing up on the page I'm looking at right now! Cool way to catch up with some old Twitter buds, @NickKellet! Thanks for it. :)
Angela! Oh, I have a special one. I love this one from Derek Sivers, a genius I met before the world knew him. What a time I had watching him rise in the music world, then the online world. (I was in music then.) I still keep an eye out for him around the web. So imagine my joy when I learned about a TED talk he was in, inadvertently, from someone who'd never heard of him before. :D
It's about differences. I've used it with older children and we've moved into a discussion of habits, customs, and finally—races. It's GRAND! If you watch, hope you enjoy it. :)
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_different.html
Your friend,
The Online Reading Teacher ;)
DeanClevettLittleAnimationJosepf Dean, why are you SCARING me??? ! ;)
MerlinUWard I don't think anyone really was trying to force it. Being "internetty" people by nature, it just occurred to some that it might be an idea. Tried. Didn't last. No biggy. :D
MatthewLiberty And will it be for the baby, or is it sex-specific historically? (Of course, things do change, as you said!)
MatthewLibertyJosepfMimiBakerMNdan perez Matt, I think you should start keeping a list of people who want to know when the baby is born! You know how easy it is to miss a tweet. Think it over. (hint! hint!) ;)
sharongreenthalDixieLil Darn it! Now I feel guilty that after ten years I STILL haven't figgered out the ole food processor! ;) (Winking, yes. But also true!)
I love this post! I still remember enjoying learning of latkes and olive oil and the Maccabees, which as a non-Jewish girl I fell in love with. Mainly because of the fun of running as fast as we could and shouting, "MACCABEES!" for hours! Thanks for a great memory, even if I didn't share in yours growing up. :D
I think you are absolutely so right on! I know a very similar group and even got sucked in on the drama, but finally looked at myself and thought, "What the hell am I doing?" I actually contributed to the mess! Luckily, I pulled back but not out, and still have very close friendship with lots of the folks. Quite a few I have met in person, and each was exactly as I knew they'd be! Apparently one <em>can</em> get to know others pretty darn well online. (I've known that for 20 years...I've made friends for life all around the world.)
But it's good to read your story hear and coolly follow the steps you went through. We're all different, but groups, online and off, are almost always very similar. The same stages of growth, realization, dismay, everything—seems to happen in both. Then the group changes, or doesn't, and often that determines its viability.
I wish absolutely everyone I met there or may meet there well, but I'll never again get so totally attached to <em>one</em> community. There is too much out there to learn, too many fantastic people with my divergent interests, and way too much to do to become petty about things that really shouldn't be first on my mind. Another great post, Margie C! :)
JosepfpeterfromottawaAnonymous72nickkellet I'm learning a lot, and still have oodles to go! Also have found some folks I need to touch base with. :D
libbytalksTheDaveReynoldsJosepfMimiBakerMNMimiOrtegaMatthewLibertyJohnFeskornLewisPoretzStephenJ.Caggiano Libby, write anytime when that happens. We have it in common. xoxoxo paula_lee_bright at charter dot net Thank heavens you're on your way back, but sorry I was un-around. :/