Audrey Watters

Isaiah enlisted in the Army today. I am incredibly proud of him. I have always told him that I would support him however I can. This is his choice. I support it. I am incredibly conflicted as I do so. ----- “It’s your fault,” my dad tells me,”that he has...

Dear Amanda Palmer, I’ve been trying to sort out my feelings all week about the kerfuffle over underground rockstar musician Amanda Palmer (AFP) and the wages she’s offering to pay musicians who join her on new tour (i.e., beer, hugs, high fives), a tour that was funded in no small...

Anthony Vanderford, March 9, 1971 - August 29, 2005 Seven years later, the story arc bends towards healing. I can't think of a time in my life where I've been happier -- except today, of course, when the waves of grief and of memory strike shore again. Image credits: Anthony...

On January 1, my partner Kin Lane and I incorporated as Tech Gypsies. We chose the name as we both live and work as technologists, writers, and consultants and live and work on the road. We chose to create a company because it was easier for us to handle our...

I got the call Wednesday night: “Mom, the house has been robbed. They took everything.” I was out-of-town myself and tried my best to calm him down long-distance. I figured I’d done a decent job of doing so, walking him through the process of calling the cops, filing a police...

I've had the tab open in my browser for almost a week now:  Bon Stewart's final blog entry at cribchronicles.com.  She's opted to shutter the blog.  “there really isn’t anything else to say, anymore,” she writes, "and i realized that that i do not know what to do with this...

Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed It’s been several months now since I cleaned all the tech blogs out of my RSS reader, a process that I talked about here. Needless to say, I haven’t added them back. I don’t miss them. But I do worry that, as an education technology writer,...

I'm currently a mentor for a wonderful Peer to Peer University "class" called Writing for the Web. I have class in quotation marks there as it's described as a "learning challenge" -- a new type of offering from P2PU that focuses more on mentorship and social learning and less on...

Some changes in my websites lately: I've moved from Go Daddy to Hover for DNS and domain registry. (A decision long overdue but made because of the company's support for SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act.) It wasn't a tough process but it was rather annoying and time-consuming thanks to...

I don't think I like this. I wouldn't mind an email from my local library, reminding me about due dates. But I don't want Amazon intervening, suggesting I buy a copy rather than renew or return it.