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# Snapshot Chronicles

Susan Getgood's personal blog

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- [Cruise to the Mayan Ruins](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2026/02/08/cruise-to-the-mayan-ruins/) - A Caribbean cruise is a great way to get a taste of the Mayan ruins of Mexico while also experiencing beautiful beaches and worry-free travel from port to port.
- [Cruise Vacations: Hawaii, Bahamas, Caribbean](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2026/02/08/cruise-vacations-hawaii-bahamas-caribbean/) - A cruise is a great way to visit multiple places, if you don't mind a few days at sea and an obligatory stop at the cruise line's private resort.
- [Paris: Panoramas, Gardens and ... Catacombs?](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2024/05/05/paris-panoramas-gardens-and-catacombs/) - No trip to Paris is complete without a panoramic view from somewhere. Luckily you have lots of choices, starting with the iconic Eiffel Tower.
- [Five Must See Museums in Paris](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2024/05/04/five-must-see-museums-in-paris/) - 5 Must See Museums in Paris. Don't miss the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée Rodin. Rounding out the top 5: Les Invalides, the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou.
- [Paris: When to go, where to stay, what to eat](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2024/04/28/paris-when-to-go-where-to-stay-what-to-eat/) - The first time I saw Paris, it was love at first sight. These are my top tips, starting with when to go, where to stay and what to eat. Plus the best pastries!
- [Reykjavik Restaurants Worth the Trip](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2024/04/14/reykjavik-restaurants-worth-the-trip/) - Reykjavik restaurant recommendations that are worth the trip.
- [Reykjavik: Favorite Museums](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2024/04/13/reykjavik-favorite-museums/) - Iceland's main attraction is the great outdoors, however, Reykjavik is blessed with some lovely museums that are all manageable in a couple hours or even less.
- [Susan and the Volcano: Hiking Fagradalsfjall](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2023/05/05/susan-and-the-volcano-hiking-fagradalsfjall/) - Highlights of our hike to see Fagradalsfjall volcano in July 202
- [Iceland: Tips for Viewing the Northern Lights from Reykjavik](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2023/04/19/iceland-tips-for-viewing-the-northern-lights-from-reykjavik/) - Iceland: Tips for Viewing the Northern Lights from Reykjavik Recommendations for optimum viewing of the Northern Lights - including camera gear and what to wear
- [Reykjavik Summer Light - Top 5 Suggestions for Summer Days](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2023/04/24/reykjavik-summer-light-top-5-suggestions-for-summer-days/) - Things to do during your summer trip to Reykjavik - puffin tours, food walk, flea market, Hallgrimskirkja and a punk rock museum.
- [Iceland in Winter vs Iceland in Summer](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2023/04/15/iceland-in-winter-vs-iceland-in-summer/) - Iceland in Winter vs Iceland in Summer Advice on when to visit Iceland, top sights to see any time of year, and whether to visit Blue Lagoon or Sky Lagoon.
- [15 Amazing Things to do in London](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2023/04/09/15-amazing-things-to-do-in-london/) - "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." - Samuel Johnson I had this quote on a poster when I was in high school, and I have never stopped feeling that way about London. Here are some of my favorite things. Victoria & Albert Museum -- If you only have time for one
- [Where to go, what to eat when in Philadelphia with kids](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2023/02/26/philadelphia-with-kids/) - Best sites and restaurants when visiting Philadelphia with kids. Art, zoos, science, shopping, history, delicious eats and more. Plus Duck Tours!
- [Election Notebook (2016): Hillary at the Apollo, Trump's abortion remarks and Maddow rocks the house](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2016/03/31/election-notebook-hillary-at-the-apollo-trumps-abortion-remarks-and-maddow-rocks-the-house/) - Since last Fall, I have become increasingly active on Facebook about the 2016 election. First, speaking out about Donald Trump, and my horror that anyone could consider him a suitable candidate for president. Sadly, we have more than enough proof that he may be a viable one. Then I realized I also needed to start
- [Coconut Custard Pie](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2021/05/15/coconut-custard-pie/) - It's been a while -- a LONG while, but I'm ready to start blogging again. Starting with some original recipes I created as part of a Monthly Baking Class I just took -- Baking with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar fame I created this pie to evoke the memory of a Coconut Custard Pie I
- [To Cash](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2019/04/14/to-cash/) - Last Sunday, we made the hard call and said good-bye to our dear sweet boy, Cash. Cash was one of the most beautiful Scotties I've ever had. His head was perfect, and his body was totally in proportion, just on the slightly smaller side. But his real super-power was that he was the nicest dog
- [Childhood Hunger in America: What you can do to help](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/12/01/childhood-hunger-in-america-what-you-can-do-to-help/) - Please enable Javascript to watch this videoDid you know 1 in 5 children in the United States don’t get enough to eat? That’s 18,000 school busses full of kids. Or if, in this season of gridiron rivalries, football metaphors do it for you, 223 football stadiums full of fans.I live and work in cities —Bridgeport
- [Kids, online relationships, digital safety and a little Minecraft](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/07/02/kids-online-relationships-digital-safety-and-a-little-minecraft/) - Last month, I had the privilege to attend the New York Women in Communications (@nywici) Cocktails & Conversations panel on The Future of Communications. Moderated by the group's outgoing president and NY PR agency head Liz Kaplow, the panel featured BlogHer CEO Lisa Stone, Dana Points from Parents and American Baby and Sarah Davanzo from
- [More Minecraft: YouCube Meetup makes all the difference](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/08/07/more-minecraft-youcube-meetup-makes-all-the-difference/) - So. Mineorama, the Minecraft convention I wrote about in June, was “postponed” under quite dodgy circumstances a mere 5 days before it was scheduled to take place. And when I say postponed, the chances of it ever happening are (in my opinion) slightly less than a snowball’s in hell. Cue lots of disappointed fans, many
- [Spring has sprung, and I'm out and about ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/05/09/spring-has-sprung-and-im-out-and-about/) - It's finally spring in the Northeast. The relief on the faces you see on the street, in the subway, on the commuter rail platform is palpable. Even a little rain doesn't seem to dampen the spirits. Last weekend, I was out and about in the glorious weather. Starting with a reception for the exhibit of
- [Potato Galette Recipe](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/03/30/potato-galette-recipe/) - On today's menu, Potato Galette. Super easy. All you need for 4 generous servings: 2 large potatoes, olive oil, salt and shredded cheese of your choice. Slice the potatoes very thin. I use a mandoline. Toss with olive oil and salt, some herbs if you wish, and then layer in a pie plate, alternating a
- [Eccles Cakes: Recipe and Video](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/03/18/eccles-cakes-recipe-and-video/) - This weekend I made Eccles Cakes, a family favorite pastry. Wikipedia says they originated in Eccles (Greater Manchester), England. My family associates them with our Scottish heritage (perhaps because my grandfather loved them?) and Demoulas Market Basket supermarkets, which was the only place you could get them locally when I was growing up in Andover, Massachusetts in
- [Color Obsession: Radiant Orchid](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/03/15/color-obsession-radiant-orchid/) - Radiant Orchid Picks by susan-getgood featuring a sephora collection lipstick The Pantone 2014 color of the year is a bright fuschia pink called Radiant Orchid. And while I wouldn't say I'm obsessed, I have bought exactly four things for my spring wardrobe so far and they are all variations on this theme. A couple of
- [Reflections on Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, 2014](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/02/19/reflections-on-westminster-kennel-club-dog-show-2014/) - I attended Westminster 2014 as a guest of STAINMASTER, official Westminster carpet partner Sky the Wire Fox Terrier went Best In Show last week at the Garden, and if you want the play by play on the judging, there are more than a few sites that will give you the scoop. And of course Sky and her handler
- [Commercials worth watching: P&G Thank You Mom/Raising An Olympian series and Budweiser's Super Bowl #BudweiserPuppy](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/02/02/commercials-worth-watching-pg-thank-you-momraising-an-olympian-series-and-budweisers-super-bowl-budweiserpuppy/) - Disclosure: I attended a press event for the launch of P&G's Raising An Olympian short films last fall. I have no connection to Budweiser or the #BudweiserPuppy. Normally, I write about commercials over on my marketing blog, and share my opinion about both execution and effectiveness, focusing on how well they reach (or don't) the target
- [New Year's Resolutions](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2014/01/03/new-years-resolutions/) - I don't make them. And I don't intend to start now. I've already committed to some actions to safeguard (and maybe improve in some aspects) my health, and hanging them on an arbitrary date is silly. Particularly since I started at Thanksgiving, which is far more often a watershed for changes in my life. But
- [Christmas traditions](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/12/29/christmas-traditions/) - Like most families, our Christmas traditions are a blend of heritage, family and the things you add just because YOU like them. Or sometimes, as most of my family will attest in the case of my Christmas music, ONLY because you like them. But I digress. At my house, our Christmas tree is a blend
- [The December 2013 Bigot Olympics](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/12/24/the-december-2013-bigot-olympics/) - Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder, we have the December 2013 Bigot Olympics. Granted, there were other notable examples of racism, sexism and homophobia in the news over the year, not the least of which was the verdict in the killing of Trayvon Martin. But December was truly the lightning round, with
- [Monster headphones deliver Monster sound (and cut out commuting noise!)](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/10/11/monster-headphones-deliver-monster-sound-and-cut-out-commuting-noise/) - Three days a week I commute 90 minutes each way into Manhattan. Most mornings, the train is fairly quiet; there is an unwritten weekday commuter rule (suspended on weekends!) that noise and conversation should be kept to a minimum. So most mornings I work or read or sleep. From time to time though I end
- [Learn to Ride - More lessons than I expected](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/08/18/learn-to-ride-more-lessons-than-i-expected/) - I was a guest of Harley-Davidson at an immersion event in Milwaukee last summer in conjunction with my job at BlogHer. As part of that experience the company offered the participants a certificate for a free Rider's Edge class at a Harley dealer. This weekend I took the range portion of the Harley-Davidson Rider's Edge Learn
- [Books for the Beach by Boys (Summer Reading Part 2)](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/07/13/books-for-the-beach-by-boys-summer-reading-part-2/) - My previous recommendations all fit into the fantasy mystery category and were written by women. This post moves onto the mysteries I've read recently, and can be summed up as Book for the Beach written by Boys (men!) The Cloud by Matt Richtel. Richtel draws on his experience as a NY Times technology reporter in
- [My Spring of Steampunk (Summer Reading Part One)](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/06/24/my-spring-of-steampunk-summer-reading-part-one/) - Looking for some summer reading? I've got some suggestions for you. I've been digging into three fantasy series, two of which are definitely steampunk and the third perhaps better classed as historical fantasy. All have strong female protagonists and at their core, mystery -- both as the plotline and about the characters. Let's start with the
- [How does the garden grow](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/05/25/how-does-the-garden-grow/) - Just about a year ago, we moved into an old turn-of-the-(20th)-century home that needed (and still needs) a lot of work. We've been making slow progress, and with the exception of some initial and very necessary construction to remodel the very rundown kitchen and a few other improvements, doing most of the work ourselves. But one of
- [When did CNN become irrelevant?](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/04/21/when-did-cnn-become-irrelevant/) - CNN, once the definition of broadcast news quality, has become irrelevant. If you didn't already think so, the network did a bang-up job proving it this week with its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, which at times matched the standard of reporting of that bastion of yellow journalism, The New York Post. I'll let Jon
- [For Boston ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/04/16/for-boston/) - I've lived in New England most of my life, and until three years ago, in a small Massachusetts town not far from the Boston Marathon starting line in Hopkinton. It's impossible to live in Massachusetts, and especially in MetroWest and not know a few runners, both official and unofficial. Now that we live in Connecticut,
- [More memories of Reva](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/04/14/more-memories-of-reva/) - Perhaps it's true that it isn't the duration of life, it's the fullness. If that's true, my dear sweet Reva wasn't robbed, although it still feels that way every day. So I beg your indulgence while I share a few more memories. She loved to watch TV. Especially other animals. When she was getting attention,
- [Lean In and Hustle](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/04/12/lean-in-and-hustle/) - Now that I have read Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, I can simply say that I was disappointed. As I wrote earlier this year, I had fairly low expectations of the book. I suppose if I measure my sentiment after reading to what I expected prior, my expectations were met. But not for the reasons I
- [To Reva ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/03/30/to-reva/) - Our sweet girl Reva (Ch. Blueberry's Best Served Cold) passed away peacefully late Wednesday night. She had two really great weeks from when we learned she had cancer -- happy, playing in the yard with our other two dogs, getting spoiled rotten. And then Wednesday when I got home from work, as soon as I
- [2013. So far a mixed bag. With an extra helping of awful.](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/03/14/2013-so-far-a-mixed-bag-with-an-extra-helping-of-awful/) - Well, 2013, so far you are a mixed bag. There have been some good moments. Douglas and I had a great weekend trip into NYC in January. We saw Blue Man Group, ate at a terrific restaurant in the East Village (The Smith) and went to the Harry Potter exhibit at Discovery Times Square. Not sure if they do
- [Lean in, tip over: Thoughts on Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/02/27/lean-in-tip-over-thoughts-on-marissa-mayer-and-sheryl-sandberg/) - Over the past week, I've been chatting with a number of my Facebook friends about what many are calling the most recent salvos at the good ship Working Mother. Specifically Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's recent edict requiring Yahoo! employees to work in a Yahoo! office, effectively rescinding flexible working arrangements and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new
- [Au revoir mon ami](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2013/01/04/au-revoir-mon-ami/) - Earlier this week a good friend from high school died of cancer. We'd lost touch about 20 years ago -- sometime in the early 90s -- but for more than 10 years we were very close, though high school, college and our early adult years. I won't lay claim to grief. That emotion belongs to
- [Here's to 2013... ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/12/28/heres-to-2013/) - 2012 has not been a great year for so many friends, colleagues and acquaintances, and truth be told, not so wonderful for me either. Most days, it definitely felt like the toast was jelly-side down. But I've always been a glass half-full person. So rather than dwell on the bad, I thought I would take
- [Reflections on respect and other matters](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/11/22/reflections-on-respect-and-other-matters/) - Respect. Honesty. Tolerance. These are the building blocks of integrity. And somewhere along the way, a large portion of this country has lost sight of its integrity, and that makes me sad. Even sadder is that our moral meltdown is playing out on the public stage of Facebook and Twitter in ever uglier ways. I'd
- [Hurricanes, Trolls and Halloween](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/10/31/hurricanes-trolls-and-halloween/) - After two days without power due to Hurricane Sandy, we were finally restored around 5:30 pm on All Hallows' Eve. Just after my brother got back from a run to borrow a generator from a family friend in Massachusetts. Ah the irony. So I started to scroll through my personal email, and found one from
- [Involuntarily Denied Boarding and Other Airline Tales](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/10/07/involuntarily-denied-boarding-and-other-airline-tales/) - Live long enough, and travel enough, I guess you CAN experience every possible travel delay the airlines can foist on a traveler. And in my life I have had some doozies. The trip back from my college semester in Paris. Flying into JFK in a snowstorm, where my mom was meeting me to fly back
- [50: James Bond, Shades of Grey and Me!](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/08/11/50-james-bond-shades-of-grey-and-me/) - I turned 50 last month. I didn't write about my birthday, largely because it just wasn't a big deal. I've always believed that getting older is just fine, considering the alternative. The most I planned to talk about my 50th year here was in the context of two watershed things I expect to happen in
- [Get your motor runnin'](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/07/19/get-your-motor-runnin/) - I was lucky enough to be hosted, along with 11 BlogHer Network bloggers, at a 2 day event at Harley-Davidson headquarters in Milwaukee earlier this week. Here on Snapshot Chronicles, I will share my personal experiences over the 2 days as well as some amazing tidbits from Harley history. And over on my professional blog Marketing Roadmaps, I will
- [Born to be Wild](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/07/15/born-to-be-wild/) - On Sunday, I am so excited to be among a small group of women going to Harley-Davidson Summer Camp in Milwaukee for a few days. I get to tag along with Mom to the Screaming Masses, Sugar Jones, Kelly (Mocha Momma), Scout from United States of Motherhood, Stephanie Quilao, Missy from Bitten and Bound, Mona
- [My Jeremy Renner Obsession](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/06/28/my-jeremy-renner-obsession/) - Last month we saw the Avengers movie, and since then I have been battling with what might be considered an unhealthy obsession with Jeremy Renner. Seriously, I watched Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol for a second time purely to watch Renner, and I am planning to BUY The Hurt Locker (and films about war are not
- [Avengers Assemble!](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/05/17/avengers-assemble/) - I will admit it, I am a total fan girl when it comes to comic book hero films. Superman. Batman. X-Men. But there is a special place in my heart for The Avengers. Especially Iron Man. Because, seriously, Black Sabbath AND Robert Downey Jr. But like the Grinch, my heart grew a few sizes this
- [The time warp of the Metro North Bar Car ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/04/26/the-time-warp-of-the-metro-north-bar-car/) - Of late I have felt a bit like I am living a distaff 21st century version of Mad Men. I work in advertising, although for a social media publisher, not at an agency. I commute daily on Metro North's New Haven line and live in Fairfield County, although in far less glamourous Bridgeport, not Cos
- [L'Odyssee de Cartier - Magnifique!!](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/03/17/lodyssee-de-cartier-magnifique/) - The best advertising tells a story. Sometimes it's simple, sometimes it's complex. And sometimes it just stands in a class all by itself. Like L'Odyssée de Cartier. Yes, it's long. Yes, there's no call to action, although, quite frankly even if there were, most of us couldn't act anyway. But I challenge anyone to watch
- [A good vet makes all difference](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/03/14/a-good-vet-makes-all-difference/) - When we moved to Connecticut last year, one of the biggest stresses was whether I would be able to find a good vet. I had been with the same veterinarian for about 15 years. Dr. Cindy Schaefer and the staff at Apple Country Animal Hospital in Stow Mass. had seen us through so many things
- [RIP Music, Ch. Blueberry's We Are Not Amused ROMX](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2012/03/03/rip-music-ch-blueberrys-we-are-not-amused-romx/) - March 23, 1998 - March 3, 2012 I've known the day was coming for a while now, and earlier this week, knew it would be soon. But it was still too soon, Music. It's always too soon. We will miss you terribly and always. Music came to live with us in Fall of 1998 a
- [Sabrina Fair](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/02/19/sabrina-fair/) - Sabrina at about 4 months My first dog as an adult was Sabrina Fair, a now 12-year old Scottish Terrier who is days away from the Rainbow Bridge. I can barely type this for crying but I want to do it now, while she is still with me, because I know I won't have the
- [Scottie Angel](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/02/25/scottie-angel/) - If you've read the comments to my previous post about my Scottie Sabrina, you know we had to put her to sleep this morning. And it was hard. It was also the right thing to do. I thank you all for your emails, comments, twitters, phone calls, everything. The mail came shortly after we got
- [Holiday Movies](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/12/29/holiday-movies/) - The December holiday season is pure gold for the entertainment industry. From Christmas music, which I love, to TV specials and holiday themed episodes of TV series, some of which are good like the Eureka episode I mentioned in my last post and Glee's funny homage to Christmas specials past. Let's not forget the holiday
- [A few of my favorite things....](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/12/27/a-few-of-my-favorite-things/) - I am somewhat stunned and more than a little embarrassed that I haven't posted in nearly 3 months. It's not for a lack of stories, trust me. Just some of the ones that are most consuming me cannot be told. Or at least, not yet. Think of that as a teaser for next season if
- [Remember Poldark? ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/10/01/remember-poldark/) - Things have been a bit unsettled here for a few weeks. I can't really write about it now. Perhaps someday. But Douglas and I are doing okay, everyone's health is good, and as the saying goes, this too shall pass. Today (and starting last night) I am having a mini-marathon rewatching the British television series
- [Penn Station Saturday August 27 ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/09/04/penn-station-saturday-august-27/) - Shot Saturday August 27 around 6:30 pm after arriving in Penn Station on one of the last Amtrak trains north in advance of Hurricane Irene. Camera: my Olympus point-and-shoot
- [Strangers on a Train](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/07/06/strangers-on-a-train/) - Strangers on a train. No, not the Alfred Hitchcock classic film with Farley Granger and Robert Walker where two strangers plot to commit each other’s murder. Last fall, I started working for BlogHer in the NYC office. I commute every day on the Metro North New Haven line to Grand Central. Every so often I
- [Screening, The Kids Grow Up](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/06/15/screening-the-kids-grow-up/) - The Kids Grow Up - trailer from Copacetic Pictures on Vimeo. Tuesday night I attended a screening of the documentary film The Kids Grow Up over at HBO. I don’t go to many events (time and childcare constraints) but this was just around the corner from the office. Plus bloggy friends Catherine Connors (Her Bad
- [Glee, Chuck and Mothers of Intention](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/05/18/glee-chuck-and-mothers-of-intention/) - Within the next few weeks, most of the TV shows I watch regularly will air their season finales. Chuck already has, and boy was it a doozy. I won't spoil it for you if you haven't seen it, but you can read the rundown here. Castle wrapped up as well, and I've heard it was
- [Glee-full, or how I finally crossed over to the Gleek-side](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/05/06/glee-full-or-how-i-finally-crossed-over-to-the-gleek-side/) - I'd heard about Glee, but I'd resisted watching. I really don't know why, because it is exactly the sort if show I *would* like. Then one night last January I was looking for something to watch and found it on "On Demand." The Rocky Horror episode. I was hooked. I watched all the other eps
- [Chow Hounds](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/04/04/chow-hounds/) - This is a sponsored review by BlogHer and Purina. My dogs will eat just about anything. And when they are puppies, that “anything” extends to all sorts of things that you wouldn’t really expect a dog to chew. Rocks. Siding. Trees. The plastic indoor dog potty I got for the old dog
- [Avoiding Blog Burnout panel at ASJA conference](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/05/03/avoiding-blog-burnout-panel-at-asja-conference/) - cross posted to Marketing Roadmaps I was privileged to join author Dr. Irene Levine and former Ladies' Home Journal editor-in-chief Myrna Blyth on a panel at the American Society for Journalists and Authors conference last Saturday in New York. The topic was how to avoid "blog burnout," which was a tad ironic since lately I have plenty of
- ["Hey dude, no need to prop your shoeless feet up on the train seat" and other travel inconsiderations](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/04/07/hey-dude-no-need-to-prop-your-shoeless-feet-up-on-the-train-seat-and-other-travel-inconsiderations/) - Seen last Thursday on the 9:07pm Metro North train to New Haven from Grand Central - middle-aged man in the seat across the aisle takes his shoes off and props his feet up on the seat opposite. Really? Yesterday on the flight back from Portland Oregon where I was panicking about babies with authors
- [Come panic about babies with Finslippy, Fussy and BlogHer in Portland, Seattle and the Bay Area](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/03/25/come-panic-about-babies-with-finslippy-fussy-and-blogher-in-portland-seattle-and-the-bay-area/) - BlogHer is sponsoring the West Coast leg of the book tour for Let's Panic About Babies by Alice Bradley ("Finslippy") and Eden Kennedy ("Fussy"). We start in Portland Oregon on April 5th, move up to Seattle on April 6th and then down to the San Francisco Bay area April 8, 9 and 10. Alice and Eden
- [The Somewhat Sort of Single Mom](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2011/03/08/the-somewhat-sort-of-single-mom/) - Since January, I have been a somewhat, sort of single mom. Last Fall, I started working for BlogHer, based in the Manhattan office. Since commuting to Midtown from the Greater Boston area wasn’t realistic, this meant the family had to move. And realistically, put our home in Massachusetts on the market – much as we
- [Up up and away](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/10/06/up-up-and-away-2/) - Pathetically, I haven't even uploaded my vacation pictures (from the last week in August) to Flickr. And I have completely ignored my personal blogs for more than a month, which is sad, especially since there is a lot to report. Maybe this weekend I'll find a few moments. In the meantime, please enjoy these two
- [Understanding conferences & trade shows (thoughts post-BlogHer, part 2)](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/09/07/understanding-conferences-trade-shows-thoughts-post-blogher-part-2/) - Originally I was going to address the somewhat self-serving BlogWorld Expo post comparing BlogWord Expo and BlogHer, but it's been a month, and pretty much everything that can be, has been said, argued, analyzed, attacked and defended. I thought it would be far more productive to talk a little about trade shows and conferences. What
- [Sunrise, Cadillac Mountain ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/09/02/sunrise-cadillac-mountain/)
- [Thoughts post-BlogHer 2010, part one](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/08/19/thoughts-post-blogher-2010-part-one/) - BlogHer 2010. Maybe the best since the very first in 2005. I've been writing a series on Marketing Roadmaps on the marketing lessons from BlogHer '10 so I am not going to cover too much of that here. I'm also not going to go into a terrible amount of detail about my experiences at BlogHer.
- [Balloons, K9s and TwinkieBook ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/08/15/balloons-k9s-and-twinkiebook/) - Image by sgetgood via Flickr This weekend, there was a balloon festival in our sleepy little town. I haven't done much editing on the photos I took of the balloon glow last night or the balloons cruising over town at 6am this morning, but I have loaded them on Flickr (my back-up server!) if you
- [New York, New York - Central Park Zoo](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/08/13/new-york-new-york-central-park-zoo/) - My thoughts on the evolution of the BlogHer community and conference are coming sometime this weekend. In the meantime, please enjoy some photos from my visit to the Central Park Zoo last Sunday with good friend Celeste Lindell (Average Jane). We're calling it the First (hopefully Annual) Self-Sponsored BlogHer Zoo Trip. Next year, San Diego!
- [Comic-Con: The Guild, Castle & Eureka plus a few words about the Doctor Who finale](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/07/28/comic-con-the-guild-castle-eureka-plus-a-few-words-about-the-doctor-who-finale/) - Next year, I'm taking my vacation at Comic-Con. My husband thinks this is weird and does not plan on joining me but I think my son will want to come. That may say something about the sophistication of his media tastes. Or more likely, the total geeky nerdiness of mine. At its panel, web series
- [TV series news out of Comic-Con - Burn Notice and Chuck](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/07/24/tv-series-news-out-of-comic-con-burn-notice-and-chuck/) - Image via Wikipedia There are two conferences that I've never been to but would dearly love to attend someday. One is SxSw, and some year, there will be business reason that justifies the expense. The other is Comic-Con which is going on this weekend in San Diego. For a lifelong science fiction and fantasy fan,
- [More news from Comic-Con: Bones, Fringe, Avengers & Green Lantern](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/07/25/more-news-from-comic-con/) - Picking through more Comic-Con news: Bones - Booth (David Boreanaz) will return from Afghanistan with a new girlfriend. Watch Zap2It's interview with Boreanaz and co-star Emily Deschanel (Brennan). Here's the teaser reel from the panel at Comic-Con: Fringe - The panel didn't really give too much away about the coming season, but this clip did
- [Indigo Bunting](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/07/20/indigo-bunting/) - I swear to god, this bird was posing for me. I was out refilling one of the feeders - around 7:30pm -- and as I came back into the dogs' fenced in area, I saw a blur of color at the bird feeder. At first I thought it was a confused hummingbird, but then I
- [The evolution of community: BlogHer at 5](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/07/19/the-evolution-of-community-blogher-at-5/) - On Saturday, I hosted the second annual Boston pre-BlogHer BBQ at my house. While a few of the guests also came last year, it was largely a new group of women (and their families). Pathetically, I have no pictures even though I had taken out my camera that morning fully intending to shoot some. Hopefully
- [You're Invited: the 2d Annual pre-BlogHer Boston-area BBQ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/07/04/youre-invited-the-2d-annual-pre-blogher-boston-area-bbq/) - Image via Wikipedia Happy Independence Day (and a belated Happy Canada Day to my friends north of the border). It's hard to believe that BlogHer 2010 is nearly here. But before we convene in New York, we have the Boston Area BBQ on July 17th. Date: Saturday July 17th Time: 1-5 pm Where: 171 White
- [Weekend Photo: Gay Pride Parade, NYC](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/06/28/weekend-photo-gay-pride-parade-nyc/)
- [It's all in how you ask...](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/06/18/its-all-in-how-you-ask/) - This morning, I received an email from a family lifestyle magazine, congratulating me that they had chosen one of my Flickr photos to be featured in their travel section. For a credit. No compensation. Now, if I had submitted my photo for this "opportunity," the email language wouldn't bother me. But I've never even heard
- [Get in gear. Your Top Gear.](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/06/07/get-in-gear-your-top-gear/) - Image via Wikipedia My latest television obsession is the BBC car show Top Gear. Go figure. On our trip over to Africa last Fall, my brother was watching episodes of the series on his netbook, and I saw a bit of it, but kept forgetting to check it out once I got home. Until a
- [It ain't easy being green...](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/05/01/it-aint-easy-being-green-2/)
- [From the photo gallery](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/05/29/from-the-photo-gallery/) - Some spring photos from my yard. A Great Crested Flycatcher collecting materials for a nest. This was a first time sighting for me. So glad the camera was sitting out on my desk so I could grab the shot. Using the macro feature on my 70-300 lens - A Trillium from my garden A yellow
- [Hawaii Five-O](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/05/31/hawaii-five-o/) - I'm thinking, yes. Hawaii, nostalgia, plus Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park, and James Marsters as the arch-nemesis. Yum. Here are the new opening credits: And for a walk down memory lane, here's the original: Watching the two, one thing that stands out is the equality of the four leads in the credits in the new
- [Season Finale Report Cards](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/05/25/season-finale-report-cards/) - Well, the regular television season is over, and the summer season (Leverage, Eureka and Burn Notice) is soon to begin. Here's my report card on the season finales of the shows I regularly watch. Plus a comment on Lost, even though I was only a sporadic viewer. Bones - B The mystery in the season
- [Happy Mother's Day](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day/) - Ten years ago we celebrated my first Mother's Day. How time flies!! April 28, 2000 April 2010, Stone Zoo My mother's day greeting for you.
- [SciFi Sunday: Initial thoughts on Doctor Number Eleven](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/04/18/scifi-sunday-initial-thoughts-on-doctor-number-eleven/) - The Doctor is back. Or rather, the 11th Doctor is here. With a new face and a new logo. The first episode of the new series, "The Eleventh Hour," aired Saturday night on BBC America at 9pm. It was preceded by an hour-long special that recapped the Doctor's history, mostly focusing on recent Doctors Nine
- [Straight No Chaser](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/04/17/straight-no-chaser/) - video by Christine Koh Straight No Chaser is more than just the best way to drink single-malt Scotch. It's a terrific a cappella group that started at Indiana University in the 90s and got its big break when Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman saw a YouTube video of their performance at a reunion concert a
- [Today show segment on negativity in the blogosphere](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/04/12/today-show-segment-on-negativity-in-the-blogosphere/) - Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Last Friday, I was honored to be on the Today Show talking with Ann Curry and Isabel Kallman about negativity in the parenting blogosphere. Jen Singer of Momma Said was featured in the taped segment that introduced the topic. I personally was very pleased with
- [And it rained for 40 days and 40 nights...](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/03/29/and-it-rained-for-40-days-and-40-nights/) - Yesterday, my brother and I went to a National Geographic Traveler workshop on nature photography. The speakers -- Eddie Soloway and Michael Melford -- were excellent, and Doug and I walked away with some great tips and ideas for our own photography. On the way home, Doug wanted to get a picture of some of the
- [Friday photo: Cardinal in winter](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/03/26/friday-photo-cardinal-in-winter/) - Cardinals are pretty birds year round, and I love the spring, when the females turn a more rosy, less brown shade. But there's something so striking about a male cardinal in winter. ADDED: I had already posted this photo when I learned about the beyond snapshots photo contest to win a red epiphanie camera bag. (Hat
- [Some suggestions for getting the New York Times to listen](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/03/16/some-suggestions-for-getting-the-new-york-times-to-listen/) - Frustrated by Sunday's mom blog article in the New York Times (notice, no link)? Want to take action but aren't quite sure what to do? Here's the thing. What matters to the New York Times is its pocketbook. Boycotts and Facebook pages aren't going to do it, because the Times knows that many, many of
- [The naming of things](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/03/14/the-naming-of-things/) - Yesterday morning I noticed that when my almost 10 year old son is tired or sick, he still calls me "Mommy" but most of the time, I'm just "Mom." Which is fine. I'm not weeping over his lost babyhood or anything. I enjoy him for what he is at every stage, and most of the
- [Ruminations on Mom 3.0](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/03/03/ruminations-on-mom-3-0/) - As my Facebook page now proudly says, "I used to have a life. Now I have a book." Blogging is a luxury right now, but I found this photo this morning and gave myself permission to write a quick post about Mom 2.0 and Mom 3.0 Mom 2.0 First, the Mom 2.0 Summit was tremendous.
- [Broad-winged Hawk](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/02/16/broad-winged-hawk/) - Amidst the snowstorm today, we had this visitor in the backyard.
- [A refreshing change from Super Bowl ads - Pepsi's Refresh Project](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/02/05/a-refreshing-change-from-super-bowl-ads-pepsis-refresh-project/) - cross posted to Marketing Roadmaps The Super Bowl is pretty much the only athletic contest in the world where the television advertisements during the event get nearly as much media coverage as the event itself. Likewise the run-up and hype of the commercials. Will the network will sell all the space? Who will run ads,
- [MommyTech, CES and the great porn debate](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/01/14/mommytech-ces-and-the-great-porn-debate/) - Last week I was at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to speak on a panel at Mommy Tech, a day long conference and exhibit area within CES focused on moms’ use of technology. If you are so inclined, you can read more about my trip on my travel blog. CES is a trade
- [Blown off course](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2010/01/02/blown-off-course/) - Earlier this week we had some unexpected visitors to our yard - a flock of about 20 Robins that must have been blown up the coast by the Christmas storm. It was fairly warm on Monday (when the picture above was taken) so they weren't in any apparent hurry to leave. On Tuesday, the weather
- [Happy New Year](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/12/30/happy-new-year/) - My contribution to perpetuating the meme that, yes, the Internet is all about cats. See you next year!
- [Conundrum](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/12/15/conundrum/) - The conundrum. I dislike rankings. You know the top 100 this or that according to some person/group. I consider them hierarchical symbols of the patriarchy. This need to know who is on top, regardless of whether they truly merit it. They are also mostly meaningless. Quantitative ones are generally pretty easy to game, and qualitative
- [My Christmas presents to you, dear readers](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/12/09/my-christmas-presents-to-you-dear-readers/) - Late to the party I know, but I just discovered this super music video for the online series The Guild (via MamaPop): Do you want to date my avatar? Written by Felicia Day and Jed Whedon. And also via MamaPop, Neil Patrick Harris as Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman. Happy Holidays!
- [Hiatus](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/11/20/hiatus/) - Things are getting a bit crazy. A good thing. But it does mean that something's gotta give, and it looks like it is going to be the personal blog. I'll try to post something every week, but truly, no promises. Business is picking up a little bit THANK GOD. I've started writing my book, Professional
- [Have a piece of Give-Thanks Pie](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/11/06/have-a-piece-of-give-thanks-pie/) - “When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmmm, boy.” -- Jack Handy We love pie all year round. Apple. Cherry. Peach. Pecan. Blueberry. Oh Blueberry. But somehow pie in the fall has a special
- [Firefly Fan Girl Squee](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/10/27/firefly-fan-girl-squee/) - Sneak Peek clip from ABC-TV. Monday's episode of Nathan Fillion's ABC-TV series Castle has the best Firefly fan girl (or boy) squee moment since Adam Baldwin's rendition of Jaynestown (an easter egg on the Firefly DVDs): Plus there's a serious side dish of Buffy-love. All within the first few minutes, so if you don't want
- [Quick update](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/10/21/quick-update/) - For those of you interested in the Africa pictures, I've posted a few more days to Flickr but have been woefully pathetic about getting the posts about the trip up on the Roadtrip blog. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up this weekend. In other news, I just started writing about digital parenting for BlogHer's
- [Mullen scores a hat trick with Boston Bruins TV spots](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/10/07/mullen-scores-a-hat-trick-with-boston-bruins-tv-spots/) - Last night, I was privileged to attend the 49th Annual Hatch Awards in Boston as a media guest of the AdClub. I live tweeted the event and will post from a marketing perspective on Marketing Roadmaps sometime later today. For now, though, I have to share the award winning TV spots Mullen created for the
- [Africa photos](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/10/01/africa-photos/) - I took a lot of pictures in Africa. at least 100 per day. It's going to take a while to edit and post them. But here's a start - the first two days are up on Flickr. They cover the Apartheid Museum, the Zambezi Sun hotel in Livingstone Zambia and our first look at Victoria
- [Women are more than mommies: More Women](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/09/01/women-are-more-than-mommies-more-women/) - crossposted to Marketing Roadmaps I'm sure it will be a surprise to the mainstream media, but women are more than mommies. Many women aren't mommies at all, for a variety of reasons that are their business, not ours. Those of us that are parents don't define ourselves solely by that role, even if we write
- [Kids TV: Characters Parents Love](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/09/04/kids-tv-characters-parents-love/) - Last month, I conducted two very unscientific Twitter polls about the children's tv characters that parents dislike and like the most. I wrote about the hated characters on August 27th. This is the follow-up about the characters we like. Not surprisingly, there are some that appear on both lists, further proof that one person's poison
- [Re-run week two, category dogs](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/09/22/re-run-week-two-category-dogs/) - Here are some of my favorite posts about dogs. Whew, Christmas! (December 2007) Sabrina Fair (February 2008) Montgomery County 2008 (October 2008) Why I hope the Obamas get a purebred dog (November 2008) RIP Champion Blueberry's In the Nick of Time (July 2009)
- [Re-run week one, category politics](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/09/15/re-run-week-one-category-politics/) - I'm currently on vacation in Africa. Since I will be focusing my blogging on my Snapshot Chronicles Roadtrip travel blog during the trip, you're going to get a couple weeks of re-runs here on Snapshot Chronicles. This week, three of my political posts from the past year. From June 2008: Disappointed, disillusioned, disheartened but still
- [From my bookshelf](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/09/08/from-my-bookshelf/) - The TV in my exercise room isn't working. More accurately, either the TIVO or the cable connection is malfunctioning because I can watch DVDs but not broadcast. So, I've been reading while on the treadmill instead. Which means I finally got around to two books that have been sitting on my shelf for ages, Outliers:
- [Eureka! It's a good show. ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/09/01/eureka-its-a-good-show/) - Just this year, we discovered the SyFy channel show, Eureka. It's been on the air since 2006 but for whatever reason, we just hadn't watched it, perhaps because it was on a weeknight, and our habit is Sci fi on Fridays. But, desperate for something to watch last spring after all our favorite shows ended
- [Crawl back under that Caillou, Dora & take Max & Ruby with you ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/08/27/crawl-back-under-that-caillou-dora-take-max-ruby-with-you/) - After the subject of the children's television series Caillou came up on Twitter last night -- specifically how annoying the main character is -- I did a completely random and totally unscientific Twitter poll about the kids' tv characters that we, the parents, dislike the most. The fact that one person's poison is often another's
- [Hummingbird](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/08/15/hummingbird-2/) - Woodstock Vermont August 2, 2009 More pictures.
- [Does mainstream media have mommy issues? ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/08/12/does-mainstream-media-have-mommy-issues/) - In April, I wrote a post called Has Dooce become the modern day June Cleaver? It got a bit of attention at the time, especially after PunditMom used it to relaunch her Mothers of Intention series. Please consider this post the sequel. In the June Cleaver post, I discussed how mainstream media was re-focusing on
- [RIP Champion Blueberry's In The Nick Of Time](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/07/31/rip-champion-blueberrys-in-the-nick-of-time/) - I was going to write a BlogHer post mortem about my personal reactions to the conference. From the highs like my wonderful hair makeover at Sparrow Hair courtesy of Danielle, Susan and Heather, and seeing or meeting for the first time so many marvelous women bloggers and colleagues, to the lows, including my dismay at
- [Birthday Wishes](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/07/06/birthday-wishes/) - I usually get my birthday post written much earlier. Blame my tardiness on the first solid full day of sunshine with no rain in the Northeast in a month. We came up to our house in Barnard Vermont for the holiday weekend, and I'm driving back later today. Sunday (my actual birthday) we drove over
- [Hair Makeover. Please. ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/06/29/hair-makeover-please/) - Danielle at foodmomiac, Susan at Friday Playdate and Heather at No Pasa Nada are offering a hair makeover at Sparrow Hair during BlogHer in Chicago. I need this makeover. I need some help! I need a plan. While I love my local hairdresser, I think she's afraid to do "too much" to my hair. Right
- [Baby Cardinal](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/06/29/baby-cardinal/) - I'm fairly certain momma and poppa cardinal, who live in our yard year round, had at least two babies, and brought them both to the bird feeder today. I think we have a female baby top right. And earlier this afternoon I think I snapped the male baby. More pictures from the series on Flickr.
- [Birds and the bees. Well flowers. ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/06/29/birds-and-the-bees-well-flowers/) - I love photographing the birds who visit our backyard, and once the flowers bloom, I start messing around with different ways of looking at the garden. This week, I was also experimenting with the new lens I got (bought) for my birthday. Here's a selection of recent pics. The turkey, who we nicknamed Drumstick, hasn't
- [New Scottie theme from Dooney & Bourke](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/06/27/new-scottie-theme-from-dooney-bourke/) - Dooney & Bourke has just released a line of Scottie themed bags and accessories. I think the large East/West Tote would make a great netbook bag. Comes in red too, but I like the crisp white. Now I just have to budget for it. Unless the folks at Dooney & Bourke would like to send
- [Review-apalooza](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/06/23/review-apalooza/) - Books Over Memorial Day weekend, I was looking for something to read. I like fantasy novels, so the clerk at our favorite Woodstock bookstore Shiretown Books recommended Sabriel by Garth Nix. It's classified a Young Teen book but she highly recommended it, so I bought it. It was so good, I went back the next
- [Random Thoughts, from Letterman & Palin to BlogHer & some stuff in between.](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/06/17/random-thoughts-from-letterman-palin-to-blogher-some-stuff-in-between/) - This has been a somewhat random and slightly disjointed week. In that spirit, welcome to a random and disjointed post. On David Letterman, Sarah Palin and the Jokes - I've commented on a few posts about Letterman's notorious Palin daughter takes NY jokes. My take: if anyone is pimping the Palin daughters, it is the
- [Boston BlogHer BBQ ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/06/05/boston-blogher-bbq/) - cross posted to Boston-area BlogHers Group I was honored when Elisa, Lisa and Jory asked me to set up a Boston-area BlogHer group and coordinate a meet-up this month for Boston area BlogHers. I have been a supporter of the BlogHer community since it began in 2005 and cherish the friendships I have made as
- [Ghost-tweeting can be creepy](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/06/02/ghost-tweeting-can-be-creepy/) - I like Guy Kawasaki. His books are great. He's an engaging speaker. A nice smart guy. But, I just can't get behind this ghost-tweeting thing. Even though I can see the little initials at the end of the tweets signifying that the "real" source of many of his tweets is one of his ghweeters (ghost
- [Today's reasons why Twitter is not a waste of time](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/06/01/todays-reasons-why-twitter-is-not-a-waste-of-time/) - During my social media 101 workshops, I segue into the topic of Twitter by asking the class how many of them have heard of Twitter. If enough of them have, my next question is: how many of you think it is a total waste of time? When most of them raise their hands, I tell
- [Insane Hummingbird?](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/05/24/insane-hummingbird/) - Hummingbirds are known to be a bit territorial. Both at home in Massachusetts and at our house in Vermont (where we are this weekend), when I put the hummingbird feeders out every year, we definitely see evidence of this. Two males vie for ownership of the territory and we get amazing displays of hummingbird flight.
- [And that's what little boys do](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/05/18/and-thats-what-little-boys-do/) - What does a bored nine year old boy do while his parents are upgrading their cell phones at the Verizon Wireless store at the mall? Why, he uses one of the demo phones to leave a message on the home answering machine. You have one new voice mail message.
- [Live long & prosper, revisioned Star Trek](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/05/17/live-long-prosper-revisioned-star-trek/) - "These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise..." "I'm giving her all she's got Captain" "I'm a doctor not a (fill in the blank.)" "Live long and prosper." These were words to live by for a Star Trek fan in the late 60s. My earliest memories of television involve the original Star Trek, and I
- [Happy Birthday Snapshot Chronicles](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/05/15/happy-birthday-snapshot-chronicles/) - It's been two years since I first began (hopefully) entertaining you here on Snapshot Chronicles with my ramblings on travel, photography, birds, gender, politics, science fiction, dogs and entertainment. Hopefully, in the sense that I truly hope you enjoy the posts here, which tend to be a little lighter than on my serious marketing blog.
- [Made in the USA](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/05/14/made-in-the-usa/) - This morning, a friend forwarded an email chain letter, and while I don't do those anymore -- last one I forwarded even my mother said no and my husband won't even open email that looks even possibly maybe minutely dodgy -- I thought the topic of this one worth passing on, so decided to share
- [Like dogs? Consider attending a dog show. ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/05/12/like-dogs-consider-attending-a-dog-show/) - A dog show is a great way to learn more about the different activities you can do with your dog as well as talk with dog breeders about the breeds you might be interested in owning as a household pet. There's a show going on in every region of the country just about every weekend.
- [Spring fever for the birds](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/05/11/spring-fever-for-the-birds/) - I've got quite a few new birds at the feeders this year. So far I've spotted a Rose-breasted Grosbeak and a Baltimore Oriole. All the woodpeckers are still coming as well as the cardinal pair and the goldfinches. We also had two ruby-throated hummingbird males battling each other for the territory of the hummer feeder
- [Spring Awakening](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/05/04/spring-awakening/) - We saw the musical Spring Awakening yesterday. I knew it had won quite a few Tonys in 2007, so had pretty high expectations, but didn't know much else. I was blown away. The juxtaposition of the 1890s setting of the story and the pop-rock score lets us enjoy the performances on multiple levels. First, there
- [Bookshelf: Sword in the Storm & Wizard's First Rule](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/04/29/bookshelf-sword-in-the-storm-wizards-first-rule/) - I've been traveling since April 17th, first vacation in Orlando and the New Comm Forum conference in San Diego, so I haven't watched much television lately. I have been reading. Before the Orlando trip, a Border's staffer recommended I check out David Gemmell's work, so I picked up Sword in the Storm, the first book
- [Roadtrip!](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/04/21/roadtrip/) - Well, not exactly.... We're on vacation in Orlando, so I decided to time the softlaunch of my new travel blog for this week. Snapshot Chronicles Roadtrip covers family travel through a slightly twisted lens. Sense of humor required. Shoes optional. I've already started posting about this trip, and later this week I'll even tell you
- [Has Dooce become the modern day June Cleaver?](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/04/16/has-dooce-become-the-modern-day-june-cleaver/) - Before I begin, full disclaimer. These are my thoughts, my feelings, my perceptions about gender stereotypes. Your Mileage May Vary. I'm 46. As your mileage catches up to mine, you may see my point of view :-) Or not. Of late, the mainstream media has shifted its attention to the mom blogger. Whether it covers
- [Our experiences with The 39 Clues](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/04/04/our-experiences-with-the-39-clues/) - For Christmas last year we gave Douglas the first two books in The 39 Clues series,The Maze of Bones and One False Note. While we had fun with the website over the holidays, he wasn't too into the books. I read and enjoyed them, but couldn't get him to read. Until this week, when he
- [My thoughts on the Battlestar finale, finally](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/04/02/my-thoughts-on-the-battlestare-finale-finally/) - I can finally put some words around my feeling about the Battlestar Galactica finale. First hour: everything I've come to expect from this show. In some places, maybe more. The way they wove all the stories together was superb. Which was what made the second hour so very disappointing. The action roared to a fever
- [The things you find in your email...](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/03/27/the-things-you-find-in-your-email/) - I know I promised some thoughts on the Battlestar Galactica finale, and I *will* get around to it eventually. In the meantime, my mom sent me this today, and I must share: It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb). The
- [Countdown to the Battlestar Galactica finale & some other stuff](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/03/20/countdown-to-the-battlestar-galactica-finale-some-other-stuff/) - Top news of the day of course is the Battlestar Galactica finale tonight on SyFy Channel. You'll note the new spelling, SyFy instead of SciFi. Apparently the network wanted a brand it could own, so changed from an easily understood abbreviation, one that actually means something to vast numbers of people, to a homonym with
- [Daylight savings time *and* the Shred....](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/03/12/daylight-savings-time-and-the-shred/) - Are both kicking my ass this week. Not to mention work, which has been really busy. I just finished Day 5 of what is more likely going to be the 90 Day Shred for me. Admittedly I did 2 miles on the treadmill Tuesday instead of Shred, and took yesterday off, but parts of Level
- [Shred it](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/03/06/shred-it/) - "He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly" Unless you actually are Santa Claus, you really don't want the above description to apply to you. Which is why I decided to join the #shredheads and do Jillian Michaels' 30-Day Shred Workout. Over the
- ["Worst Gift Ever" Giveaway Winner](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/02/14/worst-gift-ever-giveaway-winner/) - We have a winner in the Worst Gift Ever contest for the $100 JCPenney gift card. Thanks to everyone who shared their stories. It was close, but John, who bought his wife a manure spreader for Mother's Day, just edged out Jean, whose husband gave her a faucet for their anniversary while she gifted him
- [Sneak Peek: BSG No Exit](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/02/08/sneak-peek-bsg-no-exit/) - (hat tip Galactica Sitrep) Great scene with Lee and Roslin. Echoes of Season 1 when "Captain Apollo" was her military adviser. In fact I've noticed a lot of things are "happening again." Next week being no exception with the return of Ellen Tigh from the dead. Update 2-12: Looks like SciFi has pulled the Lee/Roslin
- [SciFi and Fantasy Lovers Friday](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/02/06/scifi-and-fantasy-lovers-friday/) - The movie Coraline based on the Neil Gaiman book opens today. Here's a trailer (spotted on Gaiman's blog) featuring the author discussing fear of buttons. You'll never look at a rag doll the same way again. Trailer for the next season of Torchwood was released yesterday. I must admit, I sort of lost the plot
- [Battlestar Galactica takes no prisoners: The Oath](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/31/battlestar-galactica-takes-no-prisoners-the-oath/) - In last night's episode of Battlestar Galactica, The Oath, Starbuck tells Admiral Adama they don't have time to take prisoners: "They are not your men anymore. They are the enemy." As this series wraps up, it isn't taking any prisoners either. The return of bad-ass Starbuck was just one of many things to love about
- [Regifting](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/29/regifting/) - It's a not-so-little secret that most people have regifted at one time or another. Why not? If you receive something that isn't quite right for you, whether style or fit or utility, and for whatever reason, you can't return it, there isn't anything wrong with giving it in turn to someone who would like it
- [Stay out of the doghouse...](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/18/stay-out-of-the-doghouse/) - JC Penney has been running a campaign called Beware of the Doghouse that highlights the consequences for men who buy inappropriate holiday gifts for their wives and girlfriends. I wrote about this campaign from a marketing point of view over on Marketing Roadmaps. Mostly positive, a few criticisms. I've gotten to know one of Penney's
- [A personal reflection on the inauguration of President Obama](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/20/a-personal-reflection-on-the-inauguration-of-president-obama/) - A day of change. The first African-American president. A Democratic administration in the White House. There will be commentary left right and center on today's events and the president's speech. I'm going to leave them to it, and share a personal reflection on this inauguration that has only a little to do with race or
- [Northern Cardinal](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/19/northern-cardinal/)
- [BSG 4.5: "Sometimes A Great Notion" ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/17/bsg-45-sometimes-a-great-notion/) - Spoilers for the episode but no future spoilers The first episode in the final 10-episode arc of Battlestar Galactica, Sometimes a Great Notion, was exactly that. Great. Ron Moore and team consistently deliver excellent entertainment. If you get too emotionally invested in the fate of ANY character, you are likely to be disappointed, because the
- [Backyard birdwatching and the end of Stargate Atlantis](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/12/backyard-birdwatching-and-the-end-of-stargate-atlantis/) - Whoever coined the phrase "eats like a bird" had obviously never actually watched birds eat. We have five birdfeeders set up in the backyard, and all day long, regardless of the weather we have a steady stream of birds. Two pairs of Downy Woodpeckers, at least one pair each of Hairy and Red-Bellied Woodpeckers, a
- [You'll take a shine to Harvey: Review of Last Chance Harvey](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/10/youll-take-a-shine-to-harvey-review-of-last-chance-harvey/) - While the trailer above gives away much of the plot of the new Dustin Hoffman-Emma Thompson film Last Chance Harvey, it doesn't begin to convey how lovely this film truly is. In fact, you can probably figure out the end simply from a written summary of the plot. And it doesn't matter in the slightest.
- [Reading list & some thoughts on Stargate Atlantis' AU Vegas ep](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/06/reading-list-some-thoughts-on-stargate-atlantis-au-vegas-ep/) - For some reason, I read more when we are at our home in Vermont or when I am travelling on business. I can actually start and finish a book, or two, in the same week. When we are "home-home," other things always seem to intervene, and I'm lucky if I can read 10-15 minutes every
- [SciFi Snapshot: Doctor Who? and the imminent return of Battlestar Galactica](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2009/01/04/scifi-snapshot-doctor-who-and-the-imminent-return-of-battlestar-galactica/) - The big science fiction news of the week is of course the announcement that the role of the 11th Doctor will be played by relative unknown Matt Smith. Matt Smith, publicity photo He has an interesting look about him, and I look forward to seeing what he does with the role. I loved Christopher Eccleston
- [That was the year that was](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/12/30/that-was-the-year-that-was/) - I can think of no better way to wrap up the rollercoaster year that was 2008 than with the music of Tom Lehrer. Written more than 30 years ago, his satire, sadly, is still relevant. And still funny as hell. More clips from this concert on YouTube. Happy New Year!
- [Do you believe in Santa Claus?](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/12/22/do-you-believe-in-santa-claus/) - cross-posted to Marketing Roadmaps As we were driving up to our house in Vermont last Friday, my eight year-old son asked me if I believed in Santa Claus. It's been a couple years since he last asked me this question, and I responded the same way this year as I did then: Do you believe
- [Happy Fringemas](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/12/17/happy-fringemas/) - Brilliant holiday promo for Fringe.
- [And a partridge in a pear tree](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/12/13/and-a-partridge-in-a-pear-tree/) - I love Christmas. Decorating the house. The Christmas tree. Sending Christmas cards. Baking Christmas cookies and making the holiday dinner. Even buying gifts, although I always aim to be done by Thanksgiving. All of that is pretty normal, more or less. Here's the twisted part, at least if you ask my mother. Call it my
- [Why I hope the Obamas get a purebred dog](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/11/25/why-i-hope-the-obamas-get-a-purebred-dog/) - The day after the election, before the real political transition was really underway, among the top news was the Obama family's future pet. Speculation, opinions and advice from all corners -- the American Kennel Club, the Humane Society of the US, pet owners, dog breeders and fanciers, newspaper columnists and bloggers. Everyone wanted to know:
- [America the Beautiful](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/11/05/america-the-beautiful/) - O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! - Katharine Lee Bates, 1893 [tags] presidential election, Barack Obama [/tags]
- [Meet MY Indiana Jones; Capital One/Newsweek Photo Contest](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/11/01/meet-my-indiana-jones-capital-onenewsweek-photo-contest/) - Halloween 2008 -- Twitter friends may recall my tweets yesterday morning about a PR pitch I received that was actually relevant. It wasn't perfect by any means; it was still clearly a mass e-mail, a bit too long and promo-speaky, and had a press release attached. BUT... it was for a photo contest from Capital
- [SciFi Snapshot: Stargate Atlantis, My Name is Bruce](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/10/28/scifi-snapshot-stargate-atlantis-my-name-is-bruce/) - Some random things. First, Stargate Atlantis. Its last and not best season. I am amused that we've now seen three episodes in which Torri Higginson is featured, to varying degrees, in flashback sequences. First of course there was Ghost in the Machine, the episode in which they (sort of) wrapped up her storyline and for
- [Getting down to the wire on our country's future](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/10/29/getting-down-to-the-wire-on-our-countrys-future/) - Only a few more days until the election. It's no secret where I fall on the political spectrum, but no matter who you intend to vote for this Tuesday, you have to appreciate this anecdote from mom blogger Goon Squad Sarah recounting how her daughter tells the difference between the two presidential candidates: She pointed
- [Attn Mass Dog Owners: Mass Bill 5092 Public Hearing 10/23 ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/10/13/attn-mass-dog-owners-mass-bill-5092-public-hearing-1023/) - UPDATE 10/26/08: The proposed bill discussed in the post below was sent to study following an extremely well-attended hearing on October 23rd. This means that the bill is effectively dead for this session. -- Below is the text of an update I received today from the American Kennel Club's Government Relations Department about a public
- [One of those silly quizzes](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/10/26/one-of-those-silly-quizzes/) - Which American accent do you have?NeutralYou're not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not
- [Election video round-up: Andy, Opie, the Fonz & Whazzup? ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/10/24/election-video-round-up-andy-opie-the-fonz-whazzup/) - Today two political videos for Barack Obama started making the rounds that deserve to be noticed. Not because they are necessarily the best or most compelling political videos to surface this year. There have been many worth watching, worth sharing, including pretty much every episode of The Daily Show and the Colbert Report, not to
- [Cylons](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/10/21/cylons/) - No, I don't know who the final Cylon is. Or do I? Hat tip Galactica Sitrep -- where you can find all the latest news on Battlestar Galactica and hoped-for spin-off Caprica. [tags] Battlestar Galactica, science fiction, politics [/tags]
- [Montgomery County 2008](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/10/07/montgomery-county-2008/) - Last weekend, I was at the dog shows at Montgomery County Pennsylvania. I missed the first two days, Thursday and Friday, due to work commitments, but got there by Friday evening. Saturday is the Devon Dog Show, which almost always is a mixed bag of weather. The jewel in the crown though is the all-terrier
- [Sci Fi Press Tour Part 2: Amanda Tapping Q&A](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/10/04/sci-fi-press-tour-part-2-amanda-tapping-qa/) - Cross posted to BlogHer Like many of my fellow sci fi fans, I looked forward to the premiere of Sanctuary Friday night (10/3) because it is one of the few new science fiction shows we are getting this year. The other is Fringe, upon which I've already commented over at Snapshot Chronicles. But Sanctuary isn't
- [Super Mario meets the Matrix, Sanctuary and a wee bit of ghost hunting: Highlights of Sci Fi Channel’s Digital Press Tour](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/09/30/super-mario-meets-the-matrix-sanctuary-and-a-wee-bit-of-ghost-hunting-highlights-of-sci-fi-channel’s-digital-press-tour/) - cross-posted to BlogHer About a year ago, I wrote a case study on my marketing blog about the Sci Fi Channel’s first digital press tour. After my interview with the pr rep, I half jokingly said she should be sure to invite me to the next one. So she did. Sunday, I got back from
- [On the road](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/09/22/on-the-road/) - Billboard in Las Vegas I'm just back from BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas and Friday I leave for Sci-Fi Channel's digital press tour in Colorado. October will be just as busy, with the Montgomery County dog show weekend October 3-5, BlogHer Boston on the 11th, and then a trip westward to Chicago and Cincinnati for
- [Honey, I'm not home](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/09/26/honey-im-not-home/) - crossposted to Marketing Roadmaps Readers of my professional blog Marketing Roadmaps may recall a series of posts I wrote about a year ago on the Sci Fi Channel's digital press tour. Sci Fi invited members of the digital press up to Vancouver for a weekend at which the network's current shows were featured - Battlestar
- [SciFi Snapshot: Fringe](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/09/15/scifi-snapshot-fringe/) - The way things have been going, it seems highly unlikely that I will be able to keep to my desired Sunday schedule for my sci fi post. In part because Sunday seems to have blurred into a work day around here and in part because starting this coming weekend, I will be traveling pretty much
- [First Day of School](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/09/08/first-day-of-school/) - Douglas, First Day of Third Grade, September 3, 2008 More pictures from Labor Day weekend on Flickr
- [Sarah Palin for VP??? ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/09/04/sarah-palin-for-vp/) - I'm a lifelong Democrat and have been pretty vocal this summer about my disappointment at the way my political party selected its nominee for president. I've said it here, and on comments on other blogs: I think the Democratic party machine was more interested in not having Senator Clinton than anything else. I don't think
- [September 1st](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/09/01/september-1st/) - Douglas at Shelburne Museum. More Shelburne pics. Where has the summer gone? Tomorrow we pack up to go home after a month up here in Vermont. My husband has been going back and forth but Douglas and I have been here since August 2d with the dogs. I've been working all week while Douglas was
- [Summer Reading](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/08/26/summer-reading/) - Boy, I was tired last night. I didn't really end the post, just stopped writing. Blogging has been a bit light this summer, but I have read some great books. So with no further ado, I give you my summer 2008 reading recommendations. You may only know actor Bruce Campbell as Sam in the current
- [Hummingbirds and a little sci fi](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/08/25/hummingbirds-and-a-little-sci-fi/) - In between the rainstorms we were having most of the first two weeks of the month, I finally managed to get some good shots of the female hummingbird. SciFi Sunday is pretty much on hiatus. Mostly because there hasn't been so much to talk about. Eventually I will get around to a review of Stargate
- [Sunset](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/08/11/sunset/) - While rain does seem to be the standard weather pattern here in New England this summer, we occasionally have a nice day. Or in the case of last Tuesday, a so-so day but a beautiful sunset. Followed by more rain. I snapped this picture of the ridge behind the house just before the sun set
- [San Francisco and Summer? What Summer? ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/08/07/san-francisco-and-summer-what-summer/) - This summer is flying by. I've never been so busy without actually making any (significant) money in my entire life. I've got some exciting projects in the works, but about half of them are my projects -- ie no paying client -- which makes life, and the mortgage, a bit challenging. More when things progress
- [Gender benders](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/07/30/gender-benders/) - Okay, so I am very late on my wrap-up of our California trip and I missed two SciFi Sundays. What the heck, it's summer and I am still trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. I shall try to get to both this weekend. In the meantime, please enjoy
- [Allons enfants de la Patrie](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/07/14/allons-enfants-de-la-patrie/) - Happy Bastille Day. Enjoy this classic scene from Casablanca. Lyrics and background on La Marseillaise on Wikipedia.
- [SciFi Sunday: WALL-E, Stargate Atlantis and Burn Notice ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/07/13/scifi-sunday-wall-e-stargate-atlantis-and-burn-notice/) - WALL-E: One of the best films we've seen this year. Is it better than Incredibles and Toy Story, the two animated features most often compared to it? I think so. Not because the story is better, although it is, or because the animation technology and the blend of CGI and live action is so brilliant,
- [Sightseeing Sunday](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/07/06/sightseeing-sunday/) - crossposted to New England Mamas This week, SciFi Sunday is pre-empted. Instead we bring you Sightseeing Sunday :-) Yesterday was my birthday, and to celebrate we drove over to Burlington -- about 80 minutes from the house in Barnard -- to see the Mary Cassat: Friends and Family exhibit at Shelburne Museum. For dinner, we
- [Born near the Fourth of July](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/07/04/born-near-the-fourth-of-july/) - Tomorrow is my birthday. I'm not really counting anymore, but if you are that curious, it's number 46. Last year, I shared a few thoughts on how much I loved having a birthday near the Fourth of July as I was growing up. I've always loved fireworks. I was well through most of elementary school
- [SciFi Sunday: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/29/scifi-sunday-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/) - Well, there's not much on television and I've seen the summer films for which I didn't want to wait for DVD, so I was thrilled to learn of the upcoming "air" dates of Joss Whedon's Internet musical netcast Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (via ProgGrrl on Twitter.) To get the full effect, you have to read
- [Spoiled Goldfinches](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/25/spoiled-goldfinches/) - The birds in my backyard have become terribly spoiled. Especially it seems, the goldfinches. So much so that yesterday afternoon, when I tried to move the finch feeder to another pole, the little brats staged a revolt. Of sorts. We have 3 poles for feeders -- two double-sided shepherds hooks and one single. The finch
- [SciFi Sunday: Books for Kids](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/22/scifi-sunday-books-for-kids/) - We didn't watch Dr. Who this week. We were watching The Golden Compass on Comcast On Demand. The recording was screwing up the movie so we canceled it and I forgot to set it to record the later reshowing. It will probably be repeated before next week's episode so we'll catch it then. I hope
- [Hummingbird](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/18/hummingbird/) - Three shots, in sequence, of the female ruby-throated hummingbird who has become a regular at our feeder over the past two days. My picture of the male is a bit too fuzzy. A few more pictures from today. The red bellied woodpecker. A trio of goldfinch. The female cardinal. I also saw a female purple
- [Up up and away](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/17/up-up-and-away/) - Last weekend we went to the Quechee Balloon Festival. The Festival runs from Friday evening through Sunday, and the balloons are scheduled to go up at 6pm and 6am every day. We went Saturday but the ascension was rained out so we decided to stay in Vermont and go Sunday evening. Meant getting up at
- [With apologies to Theodore Geisel](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/16/with-apologies-to-theodore-geisel/) - Not in my house. Not on my car. Not on a bet. Not in a bar. No matter where near or far Cleaning products for me not are.
- [SciFi Sunday: Battlestar Galactica... WOW!](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/15/scifi-sunday-battlestar-galactica-wow/) - Warning: No attempt to remain spoiler free ahead. If you haven't watched "Revelations," the putative Battlestar midseason four finale, but really the 08 season finale, since the show won't be back until sometime in early 09, don't read any further. It was an excellent episode, wrapping up a number of story threads and leaving no
- [Splash!!](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/11/splash/) - Our neighbors had a party last Sunday. Here's Douglas taking a leap into the pool: And here he is earlier in the day showing off the new LEGO we bought the day before at the R2D2 model event at the Natick Mall. More photos on Flickr.
- [Champion Blueberry's Cold Cash](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/08/champion-blueberrys-cold-cash/) - Our puppy Cash finished his championship today on his 1st birthday. We should have him home sometime the week of the 16th. Here are two pictures, crops from the professional photos taken at the dog show.
- [SciFi Sunday: R2D2 at the Natick Mall](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/08/scifi-sunday-r2d2-at-the-natick-mall/) - A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... Actually, yesterday in a mall not far from our house... Douglas and a legion of 5 to 12 year old Jedi Warriors (and their parents) helped a LEGO Master Builder build a giant R2D2 from LEGO bricks. They were about half-way through construction when we
- [Disappointed, disillusioned, disheartened but still a Democrat](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/07/disappointed-disillusioned-disheartened-but-still-a-democrat/) - First let me state that I will vote for for the Democratic nominee in November. I've always been quite clear on that point. I am a lifelong Democrat, and while I have occasionally voted for Republicans in state and local elections, I vote the party ticket in national elections. Starting with the 1972 mock election
- [SciFi Sunday: Indy, Sarah Jane and Sine Qua Non](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/06/01/scifi-sunday-indy-sarah-jane-and-sine-qua-non/) - We saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last week. Was it as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark? No, but I don't think the previous two sequels were either. The first film was an immediate classic; as a result, its sequels have a lot to measure up to. That they
- [Flowers](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/28/flowers/) - I've been practicing shots of flowers with my new telephoto lens. A bud from the apple tree in our backyard in Vermont. Macro with manual focus. Flowers (and a bee) from the same tree. Autofocus. Rhododendron bud, Hudson. Macro, manual focus Poppy, Hudson. Manual focus. More on Flickr.
- [SciFi Sunday: Pre-empted for holiday weekend](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/25/scifi-sunday-pre-empted-for-holiday-weekend/) - SciFi Sunday is pretty much pre-empted for the holiday weekend. We are up at our house in Vermont this weekend and have been doing a little site seeing. Douglas and I went to Billings Farm's Sheepshearing Days yesterday and today all three of us went to Fort Ticonderoga. I also attempted to get some pictures
- [From my back window](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/21/from-my-back-window/) - Finally caught the male cardinal posing. Perhaps this is the reason we haven't seen any hummingbirds yet?
- [SciFi Sunday: Step into the Dollhouse, Sarah Jane and What the Frak? ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/18/scifi-sunday-step-into-the-dollhouse-sarah-jane-and-what-the-frak/) - Late last week, the first trailers for the new Joss Whedon show, The Dollhouse, hit the 'net (hat tip Twitter pal ProgGrrl). The premise is a sci fi fan's dream -- agents able to take on any persona, do the job and then revert back to a memory-less state. Except maybe not. Maybe they don't
- [Books, blogs and Burma](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/17/books-blogs-and-burma/) - crossposted to Marketing Roadmaps News from around the blogosphere from friends new and old. First, from my good friend Yvonne DiVita. In addition to being one of the leading experts on marketing to women online, Yvonne runs Windsor Media Enterprises, a print-on-demand publishing company that guides authors through the self-publishing process. This fall, they are
- [You just can't make this stuff up](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/14/you-just-cant-make-this-stuff-up/) - One of the best software tools I have ever bought is SnagIt for capturing screen shots. Without it I could not bring you this gem from today's email: Really, would it have been so hard to insert the word TICKET somewhere in the email subject? [tags] SnagIt [/tags]
- [SciFi Sunday: Speed Racer hits a speed bump, Friday's Battlestar & Dr. "Who Cares"](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/11/scifi-sunday-speed-racer-hits-a-speed-bump-fridays-battlestar-dr-who-cares/) - Tricia Helfer as Six on Battlestar Galactica --- Speed Racer. AS previously mentioned, I took my son and three of his friends to see Speed Racer at Jordan Furniture's IMAX Theater on Saturday. The film wasn't as bad as I expected from the reviews, but still, I wanted to like it more than I did.
- [Mother's Day Bouquet](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/10/mothers-day-bouquet/) - Some pictures from my garden using the macro function on my new lens.
- [Tweet tweet](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/08/tweet-tweet/) - No, for once I am NOT talking about Twitter. Since I got my new telephoto lens (and refilled the bird feeders), I have been obsessed with the bird activity in the backyard. Yes, I am most definitely a backyard birder. I have a bird book and binoculars. And the new camera lens. But I don't
- [More Mother's Day](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/09/more-mothers-day/) - (hat tip The Best Week Ever.TV) [tags] Mother's Day [/tags]
- [On Mothers and Mother's Day](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/08/on-mothers-and-mothers-day/) - How do I want to be recognized this Mother's Day? That's the theme of this week's Parent Bloggers Network BlogBlast in support of Johnson's new charitable giving site Baby Cause. I wrote about the campaign last week, and have been giving some thought to the question since. The truth is, anything my son gives me
- [Goldfinches in the Backyard](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/07/goldfinches-in-the-backyard/) - I filled the bird feeders last night and today have seen a pair of goldfinches, chickadees, some sort of sparrow, a woodpecker and a pair of tufted titmouse. And of course the usual blue jays and robins. Managed to get some decent pictures of the finches. A little blurry but I like it anyway.
- [My telephoto lens](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/06/my-telephoto-lens/) - I've alluded to it here and written about it a little on New England Mamas but today, I am going to tell you all about my new love: my Tamron telephoto lens. For Christmas, my wonderful family (husband, son, mom and brother) gave me the Canon Digital Rebel xTi that I craved. It came with
- [SciFi Sunday: Iron Man](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/04/scifi-sunday-iron-man/) - Warning: This post may contain spoilers. I am Iron Man. Today we saw Iron Man. And I am going to go out on a limb and say this is the best sci fi film I have seen since Blade Runner. Not that others -- ET, Close Encounters, Serenity, iRobot among others -- haven't been good.
- [Cam and Vala off to new homes](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/05/01/cam-and-vala-off-to-new-homes/) - There were 10 comments (excluding my own) on the Ark of Truth review, so we have winners for the Mitchell and Vala figures. The poor Prior is still in the storage closet with the second set of figures, so I guess I'll have to come up with another way to get him out of the
- [SciFi Sunday: Stargate SG-1, "Ark of Truth" review](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/03/30/scifi-sunday-stargate-sg-1-ark-of-truth-review/) - Okay, let's get this out of the way right away. I liked Ark of Truth. It wasn't great art. It wasn't even great science fiction. But it was good science fiction, a reasonable way to spend a couple hours and my son enjoyed it. What was good about it? Ben Browder and Claudia Black
- [Power](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/29/power/) - crossposted to Marketing Roadmaps. Warning: long post Power. Of the collective. Of the parent. Of the blogger. That's today's topic. Let's start with what the collective can achieve when we come together. In this case, for charity. As you may recall, about two weeks ago, in one of my Camp Baby case study posts, I
- [Nice weather for ducks](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/29/nice-weather-for-ducks/) - In our backyard this morning: Also in our backyard: Which is why the ducks are gone. Magic, the cat, finally started to stalk them, so I had to intervene. The ducks flew away, and I doubt they'll be picking our yard for their nest. Photos were taken with my new Tamron telephoto lens, through the
- [SciFi Sunday: Short Subject](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/27/scifi-sunday-short-subject/) - Still getting over the jetlag from the trip back from California, so SciFi Sunday tonight is going to be a short comment that I was disappointed with last Friday's Battlestar Galactica. Let's call it the Cylon adjustment episode -- the focus was mainly on the three of the frakked four who are still with the
- [Lions and tigers and bears, oh my: our visit to the San Diego Zoo](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/22/lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my-our-visit-to-the-san-diego-zoo/) - Zhen Zhen, 8 month old panda bear Today, I am sitting in my hotel room in Santa Rosa while Douglas and David continue to enjoy San Diego and the Lawrence Welk Resort (tiny bubbles...) in Escondido. I'm up here for two days for New Comm Forum, flying back south tomorrow evening. Sunday we spent the
- [SciFi Sunday: Pre-empted by vacation](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/20/scifi-sunday-pre-empted-by-vacation/) - SciFi Sunday is pre-empted this week by our family vacation. I'd much rather spend time exploring the environs of San Diego California than waxing poetic about science fiction and fantasy. Although I will say that Battlestar Galactica rocked last week. I didn't even mind that there was so much Cally in it for once :-)
- [More Speed Racer](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/14/more-speed-racer/) - Why? Because a twitter friend admitted she liked Speed Racer, and it's more fun than what I should be doing right now. Here's the trailer for the film: And here's a clip with the details on MTV's contest to give away a Corvette. [tags] Speed Racer, Corvette, MTV, contest [/tags]
- [SciFi Sunday: Go Speed Racer Go](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/13/scifi-sunday-go-speed-racer-go/) - The live-action Speed Racer film starring Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox is slated to hit US theaters on May 9th. Douglas has already decided to defer his birthday celebration with friends until it opens so we can all go see it at Jordan Furniture's IMAX Theater. I've watched a few of
- [Parent Blogger Karaoke](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/12/parent-blogger-karaoke/) - Well, I finally had time to mess around with video so here is my contribution to the documentation of last Friday's parent blogger karaoke meet-up in New York. I had a few more clips than the ones in this movie, but my video skilz were even more pathetic in those, so I decided to spare
- [Christmas Video](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/11/christmas-video/) - Yeah, I know. Christmas was a while ago, but I finally got around to messing with some of the Flip video I took on Christmas morning. Now that I've more or less figured out the editor, I'll try to get some of the video from last Friday's karaoke party up. [tags] Christmas, Scottish Terrier [/tags]
- [SciFi Sunday: Battlestar Galactica (duh!)](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/06/scifi-sunday-battlestar-galactica-duh/) - This post has spoilers for the first episode of Battlestar Galactica, He That Believeth in Me. If you haven't seen the episode yet, and want to remain spoiler free, go read last week's SciFi Sunday review of the Stargate SG-1 film The Ark of Truth and enter my SG-1 action figure giveaway. Or go watch
- [Sing, sing a song](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/04/06/sing-sing-a-song/) - I got back from BlogHer Business last night, and have finally caught up on my sleep. Now if I can just get rid of this chronic sore throat. I'll post the serious reports from the conference over on Marketing Roadmaps, including the promised summaries of the two sessions I was in, the HP Photo Books
- [A different perspective](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/03/30/a-different-perspective/) - Last weekend in Vermont there was still quite a bit of snow. Here's Cash getting a different perspective on the field behind our house. [tags] scotties, scottish terrier [/tags]
- [SciFi Sunday: Reading List](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/03/23/scifi-sunday-reading-list/) - My review of the Stargate SG1 movie Ark of Truth is deferred a week or two. Instead, I want to note the passing of one of the masters of the sci fi/fantasy genre, Arthur C. Clarke, and share with you some of my favorite science fiction and fantasy authors and their works. Let's start with
- [SciFi Sunday: Battlestar Galactica](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/03/16/scifi-sunday-battlestar-galactica/) - SciFi Sunday will not reveal spoilers, but will refer to publicly available information -- press releases, news articles, interviews and TV ads for the shows. I also have a tendency to speculate based on nothing more than the twisted workings of my own mind, so consider yourself warned. Principal cast of Battlestar Galactica revisioned as
- [A bit of spring in Boston](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/03/14/a-bit-of-spring-in-boston/) - A bit of the Flower Show came home with me. Last night I went into town for the New England Spring Flower Show. I was invited by the show's PR agency Weber Shandwick to "Girls Night Out," a special event at the show with a variety of added attractions aimed at women (duh!). Being my
- [Sci Fi Sunday: Stargate Atlantis](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/03/09/sci-fi-sunday-stargate-atlantis/) - As I wrote on Marketing Roadmaps earlier today, I will be sharing more of my sci fi obsession here on Snapshot Chronicles in the coming months. Marketing Roadmaps will still be where you'll find my commentary on the impact of social media on the sci fi segment -- fans and industry alike -- as well
- [Applefest, Fall photo tips and pumpkins](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/10/15/applefest-fall-photo-tips-and-pumpkins/) - Yesterday we went to the AppleFest at Mount Wachusett. The highlight was the chair lift ride to the top of the mountain. It was a gorgeous, cold fall day -- clear enough to see Boston in the distance. Here are some pictures I took on the ride back down the mountain. More on Flickr. More
- [New pictures: Snowshoeing, skiing and a rainbow](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/03/02/new-pictures-snowshoeing-skiing-and-a-rainbow/) - February vacation was a bit bittersweet because of the dog, but we managed to have a little fun too. I've finally put up a bunch of pictures on Flickr from a 2 hour snowshoe hike we did on Mount Tom. There are also some new pictures of the ridge, including a great one that Dave
- [Happy Valentine's Day](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/02/14/happy-valentines-day/) - We're off to Vermont tomorrow for school vacation week. I'll be working most days but hopefully will get to ski a bit too. And take some pictures. I literally haven't had my camera out of the case since I got back from Sundance. In the meantime, please check out my Media Bullseye article, Some Advice
- [Slideshows from Flickr](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/02/08/slideshows-from-flickr/) - I've been looking for tools to easily create slideshows from Flickr. I knew there was a decent hack of Powerpoint, but quite frankly was hoping for something easier. Preferably free. Twitter friend Shashi Bellamkonda (shashib) came through with a link to PictoBrowser. It's pretty good, but you can't preview or save your work for future
- [Seven things I learned at Sundance and one thing I left](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/01/28/seven-things-i-learned-at-sundance-and-one-thing-i-left/) - cross posted from Marketing Roadmaps You'll have to go to film sites like Movie City News and Cinematical for reviews of the films, and Entertainment Weekly or E!Online for the star sightings and gossip. I was only in Park City for a few days, and mostly involved in work for my client's party. Saw only
- [Brief Sundance Report](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/01/26/brief-sundance-report-2/) - Tomorrow I am homeward bound. It's been a good trip and I will write more about Sundance later this week. In the meantime, but here's a brief look at the pictures from the past three days. More on Flickr. Sunrise this morning: Soundcheck before the Electrified party at Harry O's last night. Visible on stage,
- [Notes of the Urban Blues](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/01/23/notes-of-the-urban-blues/) - cross posted to Marketing Roadmaps I haven't been posting here too much because I have been jamming to bring up two new client blogs, a podcast and doing media & blogger outreach for Electrified: The Story of the Maxwell Street Urban Blues. Hopefully after Sundance, things will settle down a little bit and I can
- [What breed of dog are you?](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/01/17/what-breed-of-dog-are-you/) - I'm really busy getting ready for my client's film premiere at Sundance next week, but promise lots of pictures when I get back. In the meantime, here's another one of those tests. What Breed of Dog Are You? My Result: Scottish Terrier No bones about it, you're an adventurous Scottish Terrier. Fearless, feisty,
- [Evil Meter](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/01/12/evil-meter/) - Hat tip Average Jane How evil are you?
- [Hannah Montana Wrap-up](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2008/01/08/hannah-montana-wrap-up/) - Well, I was crazy enough to take three kids to the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert just before Christmas. With all the holiday to and fro, plus work, I just finished making souvenir HP Photo Books for the two young ladies who joined Douglas and me at the concert. HP is one of the sponsors of
- [Whew, Christmas!!](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/12/27/whew-christmas/) - Well, Christmas has been and gone, and we got lots of photo-related gifts in our family. I got my longed-for Canon Digital Rebel, and Santa brought the family a Flip camcorder. Even my husband got into the game -- one of the few things he really wanted was a device that attaches to his telescope
- [WhyMommy & give Peas a chance](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/12/21/whymommy-give-peas-a-chance/) - cross posted to Marketing Roadmaps Over the past week or so, a movement took shape on Twitter to support a fellow blogger Susan Reynolds recently diagnosed with a difficult-to-treat form of breast cancer. As a result of a comment she made about using frozen peas to relieve pain in the affected breast, folks started adding
- [It came upon a midnight clear](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/12/20/it-came-upon-a-midnight-clear/) - Or something like that. Tomorrow is Hannah and then Saturday we are off to Vermont, but before we left, I thought I'd share a bit of the holiday spirit we've been enjoying here at home. More photos on Flickr.
- [Holy moly Hannah Montana](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/12/19/holy-moly-hannah-montana/) - Friday, I will be escorting three children to see Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana at the DCU Center in Worcester. We got the tickets from my client HP, who is a sponsor of the US Concert Tour. Douglas doesn't care that much about Miley/Hannah, but I know he'll enjoy the concert because he loves music.
- [SLR nOOb, a continuing saga by the Uncle](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/12/18/slr-noob-a-continuing-saga-by-the-uncle/) - Continuing my story of learning to use my new Nikon D40.... I am still somewhat boggled by the numerous settings possible. I knew I would be, of course, but in ways it turns out even more confusing for me than I had expected. Even the “auto” settings have adjustments that can be made. But I
- [Happy Holidays](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/12/14/happy-holidays/) - Next week is shaping up to be pretty crazy -- a new client, more bad weather, I'm taking 3 kids to the Hannah Montana concert next Friday and then we're off to Vermont until the New Year -- so let me take this moment to wish you all a Merry Chrismakah and a Happy New
- [Winter Wonderland (NOT)](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/12/14/winter-wonderland-not/) - Last night it took me three hours to get home from Boston. Here are a couple pictures I took from the car around 3 pm. More on Flickr.
- [Susan & Cash on Greater Boston ](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/12/08/susan-cash-on-greater-boston/) - Last Thursday, my puppy Cash and I were on Greater Boston with Emily Rooney. I was there to talk about the Bay Colony Cluster dog shows going on this weekend in Boston. Cash was there to look cute. Watch yourself to see how we did.
- [In Support of the League of Maternal Justice](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-support-of-the-league-of-maternal-justice/) - Tomorrow, I promise to post some pictures from our last two weekends in Vermont. Today, however, I post in support of the League of Maternal Justice. And I remind you, this is from a woman who chose to not breastfeed for my own personal reasons, but will defend to the end another woman's right to
- [Jumping in the leaves and a little more on HP Photo Books](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/11/29/jumping-in-the-leaves-and-a-little-more-on-hp-photo-books/) - Christmas is edging closer every day. We got our trees last night and plan to decorate them over the next few days. Pictures next week. But before we officially move on from fall, I wanted to share a few pictures I took of Douglas jumping in the leaves last weekend. In addition to doing a
- [n00b with SLR and Linux by the Uncle](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/11/25/n00b-with-slr-and-linux-by-the-uncle/) - I had planned to write more for Snapshot Chronicles, but life has been busy in recent months. It still is, but I have an opportunity to share with folks my experiences moving from budget snapshot cameras to more advanced, fancier ones. I now have a digital SLR camera. So I am going to force myself
- [The ridge in Barnard, Late Fall](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/11/15/the-ridge-in-barnard-late-fall/) - We went up to the house in Barnard Vermont for Veteran's Day weekend. We didn't do much, but it was nice to get a change of scenery. And I was able to get some shots of the ridge behind the house in late Fall for my series. See the earlier shots on Flickr. New interviews
- [Announcing Photographic Memories](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/11/01/announcing-photographic-memories/) - Cross-posted to Marketing Roadmaps As I’ve mentioned here before, I occasionally help HP with social media projects. I’m thrilled to announce that the most recent one, Photographic Memories, went live today. Part of the US launch of HP Photo Books, Photographic Memories is a series of interviews with mom bloggers about the photos that have
- [Photographic Memories Update](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/11/09/photographic-memories-update/) - We've created a badge for the Photographic Memories interviews that links directly to the page on the HP site with all the interviews. If you would like to use it on your blog or website, you can download the graphic or, even easier, you can link to it here using the code on this page.
- [Creme Brulee](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/11/08/creme-brulee/) - Creme brulee has become Doug's favorite dessert, so we made some last night. Be sure to check out all the neat HP Photo Books contests from the mom bloggers I interviewed for Photographic Memories. The current ones are all listed in my sidebar.
- [Photo Contests](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/10/29/photo-contests/) - Don't miss out on two photo contests that end this week: Mocha Momma's Autumn Photo Contest and the HP/WWF Pumpkin Photo Contest. Both end today, October 29th. And for November - Tracey at Picture This and the women from Mamazine are hosting a contest called Mama Focus. The catch: you have to get over your
- [Happy Halloween](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/10/26/happy-halloween/) - Our local Chamber of Commerce sponsors a downtown trick-or-treat every year the Thursday before Halloween. The main street is blocked off, and all the stores hand out candy to the local children from 4-6 pm. It's a great way to get folks away from the mall and into the downtown area to see the local
- [Red Sox Nation](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/10/23/red-sox-nation/) - GO RED SOX!!!!
- [Panda Pumpkin](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/10/20/panda-pumpkin/) - While my mom and I were enjoying Wicked in Boston, my husband was kind enough to carve me this Panda pumpkin from the stencils created by HP and the WWF.
- [Going on a Picnik](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/10/16/going-on-a-picnik/) - I've just started to explore the web-based graphic program Picnik, and so far I am impressed. I've been using Picasa, but there are some things it doesn't do (or I can't figure out) so I still have to use Irfanview for them. For example, resize images. Picnik seems to be able to handle just about
- [Autumn in Vermont](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/10/10/autumn-in-vermont/) - Waiting for you... The view from my "office" window in Vermont More pictures on Flickr
- [And the winner is....](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/09/23/and-the-winner-is/) - Yesterday I showed my puppy in his very first match. It was his first time in a dog show setting and only his second time on a lead for any length of time. It was also the first time I was doing the showing. Well the good news is, I didn't screw him up too
- [Douglas](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/09/22/douglas/) - Busy the last few weeks. Not much time to take pictures. Here's one of Douglas at the new fancy Natick Collection mall last weekend.
- [A fun (but geeky) photo gift](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/09/13/a-fun-but-geeky-photo-gift/) - Last weekend, my family attended the 25th Surprise Anniversary Celebration for my uncle and his wife. My mom and I wanted to get them a small gift, but we wanted it to be a little personal. They are very down-to-earth, casual people, and fancy china, silver vases and so forth just don't fit their lifestyle.
- [Long may it wave](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/09/11/long-may-it-wave/)
- [Doug's View on Vermont](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/09/09/dougs-view-on-vermont/) - Douglas is developing quite a photographic eye. Some of his pictures, I wonder, but others, I think wow, only 7 years old. He loves his HP digital camera. It is easy to use and brand new when he got it -- not a hand-me-down from mum or dad. That makes a difference, and I urge
- [Home again, home again, jiggity jig](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/09/05/home-again-home-again-jiggity-jig/) - So, we are back from two weeks in Vermont, school has started and there is a decidedly fall-ish nip in the air in the evenings. I ended up working a wee bit more than I wanted, but at least I wasn't paying some outrageous hotel bill for the privilege. Before I forget, I want to
- [A Little Perspective Winners](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/08/24/a-little-perspective-winners/) - (updated September 5th with some additional prizes) Thank you to everyone who submitted their pictures to A Little Perspective, the kids photo contest sponsored by Picture This, The Little Zygote That Could and Snapshot Chronicles. The entries were great, and it was hard to make our decisions. But we did :-) Here are the winners
- [If this is Tuesday, it must be....](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/08/20/if-this-is-tuesday-it-must-be/) - In the last week, I have been in Massachusetts, Vermont, and California, with two one-hour layovers in Cleveland Ohio and multiple drive-throughs of New Hampshire. How does the joke go? "I just flew in from the Coast, and boy, are my arms tired." We are back in Vermont until Labor Day. Douglas is enrolled in
- [Green Mountain State of Mind](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/08/10/green-mountain-state-of-mind/) - We are up at our house just outside Woodstock, Vermont. Two adults, who are trying to work at least part of the day (God bless the satellite dish in the backyard), one Nintendo-addicted 7-year old, four adult Scotties and two nine-week old puppies, one of whom goes to her new home Monday when we get
- [A word about breast cancer](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/08/04/a-word-about-breast-cancer/) - cross posted to Marketing Roadmaps Just before BlogHer, I started reading Toddler Planet, the blog of an incredibly courageous woman who had to change her plans to attend the conference because she had been diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, a particularly nasty and often undetected form of breast cancer, and her chemo was scheduled to
- [Doug's visit with Grandmum](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/08/02/dougs-visit-with-grandmum/) - Douglas had a great time visiting with his grandmother in Andover. They visited Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth NH, where this picture was taken, and the coastal town of Newburyport MA. He also had plenty of time to play computer games with his uncle. And care for his WebKinz. Funny, he had two when he left,
- [Back from BlogHer](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/08/01/back-from-blogher/) - I'm back from Chicago and slowly digging out from work. I'll write more about the sessions and so forth on Marketing Roadmaps, as most of the conversations emerging from the conference are more suited to it than to Snapshot Chronicles. My son missed me so much that Monday afternoon he left for 3 days with
- [Enter, donate, vote](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/23/enter-donate-vote/) - Just a few reminders. Enter: Don't forget to enter A Little Perspective, the photo contest for kids sponsored by Picture This, The Little Zygote That Could and Snapshot Chronicles. Contest starts tomorrow! Donate: Please check out Love for Parker, a online fundraising effort and raffle to help a seriously ill little boy organized by Melody
- [So you want to know about me](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/22/so-you-want-to-know-about-me/) - BlogHer Mocha Momma put out the call for those attending BlogHer to introduce themselves briefly in their blogs, so here goes: Personally: Married to David, one child Douglas age 7. Four dogs, three cats and at the moment, three 6-week old puppies. Professionally: A refugee from corporate America where I spent 20+ years in various
- [Pupdate](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/18/pupdate/) - For those of you jonesing for a pupdate, here is a video taken with my digital camera.You can hear the lens move, which is a bit distracting. I guess that explains why people still buy video cameras. BTW, any YouTube experts out there -- can you help me understand why I can't get a preview
- [The last day of summer camp](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/21/the-last-day-of-summer-camp/) - The day camp Douglas attends every summer closes out each session with a performance by all the campers. Doug's group performed a dance to the music of the Lion King. Note Doug's improvisations.
- [Slurping Life and love for Parker](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/18/slurping-life-and-love-for-parker/) - cross posted to Marketing Roadmaps Last month, I told you the story of Katie Gardner, off to Uganda to take photos with children in the IDP camps. Katie was a recipient of donated photo gear that HP sent bloggers who wrote about the Capture Your Ever After photo contest. Today, I want to tell you
- [Announcing A Little Perspective, a Kids Photo Contest](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/16/announcing-a-little-perspective-a-kids-photo-contest/) - I am thrilled to be collaborating with Tracey Clark of Picture This and Sheri Reed of The Little Zygote That Could on A Little Perspective, a photo contest for kids. The contest starts next Tuesday, July 24th. Submissions end on August 10th and we'll announce the winners on August 24th. A huge thank you to
- [Messing around with Scrapblog](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/14/messing-around-with-scrapblog/) - While waiting for dawdling Douglas today, I had time to mess around a bit with Scrapblog. Normally (and I would add still) scrapbooking is just not my thing. Baby book? What's a baby book? In the old film days, it was a major accomplishment if I managed to get the pictures in an album. Now that
- [Doug's Lobster Dinner](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/15/dougs-lobster-dinner/) - So yesterday, I said I didn't think I'd use Scrapblog much. Figures that today Doug would reach an important milestone that merited the Scrapblog treatment: his first lobster dinner of his very own in a restaurant. We went into Boston today, popped in quickly to the NE Aquarium, and then took a Harbor Cruise to
- [Gearheads Are Us](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/04/gearheads-are-us/) - While I don't plan to write product reviews on this blog -- not my thing at all -- we use a variety of equipment here in Geek Central and now is as good a time as any to give you the current equipment list. Everything on our list (located at the end of post) has
- [Cool Mom Picks BlogHer Scavenger Hunt/Photo Contest](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/13/cool-mom-picks-blogher-scavenger-huntphoto-contest/) - The women at Cool Mom Picks have put together a neat "scavenger hunt" photo contest for the upcoming BlogHer Conference. If you are going to BlogHer, check it out. Even if you don't play, you're bound to be in a photo or two or more.... Tags: BlogHer, Cool Mom Picks, photo contest
- [Douglas Courage](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/12/douglas-courage/) - At camp today, Douglas, one of his friends and a counselor were bee stung. They were all on a nature walk with the group, but Doug, his friend Olivia, another child and a counselor were a bit behind. Olivia stepped on a bee hive and it was all over except the screaming and the shouting.
- [Mommyblogger Photo Contest](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/12/mommyblogger-photo-contest/) - At The Twinkies: Adventures in Sleep Deprivation. What: picture of your child/children By when: July 20, 2007 Details here. (via BlogHer)
- [Too Many Cameras, Part Two](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/09/too-many-cameras-part-two/) - On to a few of my “hot points”- the questions I consider most important in choosing a digital camera. Is Simplicity Number One? Action Shots? Do I Think I'm a Pro? Form or Function? Batteries? These things need BATTERIES? Digital Film? Let's take a look at these points one at a time: 1) Simplicity Being
- [It ain't easy being green...](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/04/it-aint-easy-being-green/) - But at least now Kermit has some friends in Far Far Away. This week's theme in HP's Shrek photo contest is "Green" and photo blogger friend Tracey Clark (Picture This) has an entry, so check it out and vote! UPDATE: I've noticed that some folks have been using their entry confirmation links for their friends and
- [Patio](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/04/patio/) - I promised pictures of the Vermont patio in progress, so here they are. Ta Dah! For all the pics, check out Flickr. Tags: Vermont
- [The First Grade Field Trip](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/05/the-first-grade-field-trip/) - Yes, it's true. I was a chaperone for the first grade field trip last week. And lived to tell the tale. So did the 5 boys in my group. We went to the EcoTarium in Worcester, an excellent choice for kids of this age (6-7 years). There's enough to do to keep them busy for a
- [Three Piggy Opera](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/10/three-piggy-opera/) - Last Thursday was the 1st Grade production of the Three Piggy Opera. You know the story -- huff, puff etc. Douglas was a Stick Peddler. I got some okay shots, but this was the first time I wished for the control that an SLR gives you. They somewhat dimmed the lights, and the lens on
- [Puppies](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/11/puppies/) - Readers of my business blog Marketing Roadmaps know by now that I breed and show Scottish Terriers. Our three-year old bitch Reva had her second litter on Friday night. Mom and pups doing fine.
- [Pupdate, June 18](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/18/pupdate-june-18/) - Last week was pretty much work and puppies. All are doing well and have doubled their birthweight. Does anyone have any suggestions for eliminating "blue eye?"
- [Planes and Automobiles](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/19/planes-and-automobiles/) - Every year on Father's Day weekend, the Collings Foundation, a local non-profit dedicated to restoring old planes and autos, has an open house. This is pretty much the only chance for the community to view the Foundation's impressive collection of Indy race cars, antique autos (including a 1940 caddy built for Al Capone) and vintage
- [Pupdate July 8](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/08/pupdate-july-8/) - The puppies are four weeks old, and we've started weaning them. Puppy bitch. She's the adventurous one. A puppy dog. Most definitely a puppy dog.
- [Welcome new author](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/06/welcome-new-author/) - As promised in an earlier post, my brother will be joining us from time to time. To make things really confusing, his name is also Douglas, so I've given him the user name that he's been using to comment here, the Uncle :) Watch for his first post shortly.
- [Too Many Cameras, Part One](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/06/too-many-cameras-part-one/) - I am not a professional photographer nor a photo guru- I am a computer hobbyist. What this means is that most of the people I know (often including family members) ask me questions any time they need help with anything even remotely connected with computers, including tech items that can connect with computers. This includes
- [So you say it's your birthday](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/05/so-you-say-its-your-birthday/) - Today is indeed my birthday. Douglas and David did a wonderful job of surprising me with birthday presents this morning: Flowers selected by Douglas. This is a digital photo frame, very cool. I did not expect either of the gifts as I knew David had already ordered these dishes from LL Bean and we had also
- [The week that was](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/24/the-week-that-was/) - No easy way to say it. Last week, a good friend died unexpectedly and way too soon. He was a good friend to Dave and me, and my brother in law Dick's best friend since, well, forever. Rest in Peace Flip. Dick, my brother in law, came up from Pittsburgh for the funeral. Here is
- [BlogThings](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/07/02/blogthings/) - I've always loved BlogThings, and couldn't resist these two. Ruby is my birthstone, and Buffy... Well, I do love the show and Buffy got Spike. What else is there to say? Your Gemstone is Ruby Daring, enthusiastic, and spontaneous.You are energetic and passionate, with an appetite for life. What Gemstone Are You? You Are Buffy
- [Finding Hope in Photos: Children and Uganda](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/26/finding-hope-in-photos-children-and-uganda/) - cross-posted to Marketing Roadmaps This spring, as I wrote in May, I did some blogger outreach to mom bloggers about HP's Capture Your Ever After photo contest. This post is a direct result of that project. The background: Part of friendship is to say thank you. We decided to thank the bloggers who wrote about
- [World in Focus Travel Photo Contest](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/24/world-in-focus-travel-photo-contest/) - Actually, it's two contests -- one for amateurs sponsored by National Geographic Traveler and one for professionals sponsored by Photo District News. Categories: Wilderness Photography; The Human Condition; Extreme Exploration; Urban Landscapes; Snapshots; Open Series. Entry fee for amateurs is $12 per entry, for professionals, $35. Deadline is August 21, 2007. Tags: travel, photo contest
- [Are you a feminist?](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/19/are-you-a-feminist/) - A post about our weekend outing to the Collings Foundation in Stow Mass is coming. In the meantime, are you a feminist? Tip of the hat to PunditMom - lately I haven't had time to check out BlogThings, and I would have missed this one. You Are 100% Feminist You are a total feminist. This
- [Another entry for the HP Shrek Photo Contest](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/06/09/another-entry-for-the-hp-shrek-photo-contest/) - One of the best things about blogging is that you "meet" people that you would never have the opportunity to meet in "real life." Over the course of working on the blogger outreach for HP's Shrek photo contest, now in its home stretch, I met Melody from Slurping Life. (What a great name for a
- [Down on the Farm](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/05/29/down-on-the-farm/) - Well not exactly a farm. We own a house and some land in Barnard VT, just outside Woodstock. David has been remodeling the house for the past year, and we've started going up on weekends as a family. It's great because we can bring the dogs. In fact, Dave spent a large part of this
- [Bad SitCom Episode: The Craptastic Day](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/05/24/bad-sitcom-episode-the-craptastic-day/) - So, you think you had a bad day. Well, let me tell you a bit about mine. With pictures, although not taken by me. It was sort of a good news/bad news sequence of events, and reads a bit like a sketch you might see on a Fox sitcom. Except I'm a Democrat. Bad News:
- [Capture Your Ever After with Shrek & HP](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/05/23/capture-your-ever-after-with-shrek-hp/) - As I mentioned in my initial post, I occasionally help HP with blogger outreach. The most recent project was for the Capture Your Ever After photo contest. Even though this blog is pretty new, and its readers are probably just me, the designer, my mother and my aunt, I wanted to share it with you.
- [Off to Vermont](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/05/23/off-to-vermont/) - We are off to our house in Vermont this weekend. My husband's project: build a patio for our dog yard. My project: take pictures with Douglas and write a book outline. We have no cell phone, due to our location, and at the moment, no Internet access at the house (to be rectified, trust me),
- [About our masthead](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/05/18/about-our-masthead/) - Snapshot Chronicles was designed by the talented Karen Rani of Swank Web Style. Karen also did the design for my business Web site and professional blog Marketing Roadmaps. Karen, who blogs over at Troll Baby, suggested the photo of us swimming in Oahu for the masthead because we looked like we were having lots of fun.
- [What is Snapshot Chronicles?](https://snapshotchronicles.com/2007/05/17/what-is-snapshot-chronicles/) - Snapshot Chronicles is all about my journey to become a better snapshot photographer. With my simple Canon Digital Elph point and shoot camera. Taking better pictures of my son. Without red eye. Taking better pictures of my lovely Scottish Terriers. Without blue eye. Getting the pictures I want, not just pictures. It's also about introducing

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- [A Little Perspective: Kids Photo Contest Summer 2007](https://snapshotchronicles.com/archives/a-little-perspective-kids-photo-contest-summer-2007/) - A Little Perspective is a photo contest for kids, and their parents, sponsored by Picture This, The Little Zygote That Could and Snapshot Chronicles. The contest started Tuesday, July 24, 2007 and ended Friday, August 10, 2007. Winners were announced Friday August 24, 2007. This post lists all the winners. Who can enter: Children under
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