I am not–and never will be–a food blogger. (I’m guessing you’re not here for the recipes, anyway. So we’re good.) That said, I do enjoy food, and I am pretty good at making delicious things to eat. Sometimes I will prepare a family favorite for dinner and think, “I should share this on the blog.” Then I think, “But I’m not a food blogger, and the idea of staging the food for the pretty pictures makes me feel a little nauseous,” so I don’t share. Except just this once. I happen to have created a family favorite when I started making Portillo’s chopped salad at home, and I think you…
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A Belated Anniversary Love Letter To The Dailey Method
My one-year anniversary at The Dailey Method came and went about six weeks ago, in mid-June. I fully intended to write a post at that time but it’s been a busy summer around here. Better late than never. (P.S. This is NOT a sponsored post.) Dearest The Dailey Method Naperville, What a ride so far, right? In preparation for writing this, I reread the other posts I’ve written over the past year thirteen-and-a-half months (you can find them by clicking “The Dailey Method” at the very top of this page). I can’t believe how far I’ve come. It amazes me for many reasons that it was only a year thirteen-and-a-half…
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#BlogHer13: Wow.
After reading somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 BlogHer ’13 recaps (so far) for my job as Social Media Researcher for BlogHer, I caught up yesterday afternoon (for now) and decided to go ahead and write my own post before hundreds more show up in my queue and my brain gets fried completely. (I hear it sizzling, so I thought I’d better hurry.) This was my fifth BlogHer; I’ve attended it each year since the last time it was in Chicago (2009). It was the first BlogHer that was experienced as a member of the BlogHer team as opposed to just attending. I’ve said for two years now that San…
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Princess Kate Is In Labor! (Good Timing, Too.)
Good morning, sunshine! It’s go time: Kate is in labor! Princess Kate, that is. The Duchess of Cambridge, you know. I was just rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, a task made more difficult than usual because I got out of bed earlier than usual–Jim has an early flight out for business–when I saw a tweet from my friend Jenn. And suddenly it made sense, the timing of it all. The universe is coming together to make sure that William and Kate become parents on MY schedule. (Thanks!) (If you are a relatively new reader, let me bring you up to speed by saying that I’m *slightly* obsessed with…
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I Have A Head For Business*
Although I graduated from high school wanting to earn a degree in Journalism but instead started out majoring in German and then switched to Elementary Education (and carried that through to my Bachelor of Science), these days I tell myself that a Business degree would have been great, too, because I am good at seeing things from the points of view of both a customer and a company. I have excelled at this in every job I’ve ever held, and I believe that my employers notice it about me very quickly. (I have always been proud of the fact that, at eighteen years old, I was given a set of…
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My NBC Nightly News Debut…Sort Of
So we weren’t actually ON Friday evening’s NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams as scheduled because our segment got bumped due to breaking news. (“Sigh…but that happens in the news biz, you know”, I type knowingly, because I have LOTS more personal experience with the “news biz” than I did a week ago.) Tracey and I were in the Valparaiso, Indiana Buffalo Wild Wings during the broadcast*, and we had just talked our server into changing the channel on the huge tv that hung on the wall above our table (from NBC Sports to NBC local) when Ann Imig (National Director/Founder of LTYM) sent me a text letting me know…
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LTYM Chicago 2013: The Non-Recap Recap
I have been at a loss as to how I should formulate a decent summary post for Sunday’s LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER CHICAGO show. I have so many words swirling around in my head but at the same time, none of them want to come out in any way that makes sense. I could tell you how amazing the show was, but that would be very similar to what I said last year. In a way, that’s not a bad thing. I’m finding out that, just as Tracey and I have been preparing our 2012 cast for “younger siblings” in an alumni group on Facebook, each year our show is…
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Hello Again
Well, hello there! *dusting off the blog dashboard* It’s been a very busy week, as LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER CHICAGO was on Sunday. It went very, very, VERY well and as an added bonus, NBC Nightly News (yes, the NATIONAL ONE) spent the day with us to get tons of coverage and interviews for a piece on Ann Imig (Founder and National Director) and this LTYM phenomenon. (!!!!!!) We aren’t sure which evening this week it will air but believe me, I will let you know. I will write a more detailed post after I get caught up with the work I had to let fall by the wayside over…
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Rawr!
Tracey and I are in the last few days of preparation for LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER CHICAGO (tickets still available HERE!). We’re very, very excited but, as is very normal when a team nears the end result of a major project, a little bit of exhaustion is starting to creep in here and there. That’s why we couldn’t have been more thrilled to see this picture, snapped by official LTYM Chicago 2013 Photographer Sabrina Persico, which took away the sleepies and gave us the giggles. Big time. I love these ladies. (and you will too, whether you’re in the audience or watching on the LTYMshow YouTube channel at the end…
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The Journey
It makes total sense (to me) that the day after writing a post about how consumed I am with Chicago’s LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER show, I would write another post about Chicago’s LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER show. I have two very good reasons. The first reason is because I was a total idiot yesterday and forgot to mention that tickets are still on sale. Had we used the same venue as last year we would have sold out weeks ago, but we decided that we’d “Go big or go home” this year and moved to a venue three times the size (the gorgeous Athenaeum Theatre!), therefore…tickets are still available! You…