Eye Level Pasadena

I’ve been playing hooky here for the past month or so, and in the meantime, I’ve been working on something new. I’m a stepmom, and the kids’ mom and I decided to start a blog with stories about our experiences and ideas and tips about raising kids in two houses.

It’s called The Doughtie Houses Exchange, which was originally the name we gave the envelopes we’d give the kids to put in their backpacks and deliver to the other house. (Don’t worry — this wasn’t — and isn’t — our only method of communication. We also talk on the phone and email constantly.) But our kid-mail system was symbolic for both of us of how we try to cooperate between houses — how we make sure the other house has copies of all the important papers, for starters. So we named our blog after it. I’m very excited about where this might go. I hope to see you there: http://thedhx.com.

And now that it’s launched, I promise to be here more, too.

Hollywood Flakes: Now Dispensing Trite, Condescending Advice!

I can’t wait.

Check it out: Hey, FC . . . Can I Borrow the Keys to the Blog?

I gave an “Intro to Blogging” talk at the Caltech webmasters forum last week. Here’s a link to my slides. (You can click your mouse or use your arrow keys to move through the presentation. I used S5 to make these.)

I met Tableau Vivante this weekend at the farmers’ market. We were the same booth, she had a camera around her neck and was talking about photography with the vendor. ‘Could this be the mysterious Tableau Vivante?!?‘ I wondered. It was! I got to meet the woman responsible for introducing me to apriums. She covers the Pasadena Saturday farmers’ market with photos, descriptions, and recipe ideas at http://tableauvivante.livejournal.com/.

The Planetary Society building on Catalina

Did you know that The Planetary Society has a blog?

This weekend was the First Quarterly Pasadena Bloggers’ Picnic. Gavin and I visited with old friends and we met new friends who we had only known online before yesterday.

James from PasadenaNow.com

Kathy and Sam from Aphrodite in Jeans

Amanda and Theo from Living in Monrovia

Sarah from Cook and Nifty Wench

Frank from Unwired Adventures

Marielle from Chez Shoes and Ron from The Blurry Lens

Kelly from West Coast Grrlie Blather

Susan from 2020 Hindsight and Family Oral History Using Digital Tools (Why, oh why, did I take only one picture of you, Susan? I was so absorbed in our conversation that I forgot to keep using my camera!)

Even worse, I was so intent on photographing the cupcakes that my friend Erin from erin’s kitchen brought that I forgot to take a picture of her.

Erin from erin’s kitchen‘s cupcakes

In lieu of a picnic photo, here is a picture of me and Erin at a conference we went to together last year:

me and Erin at BlogHer

Back to the picnic:

Mike from blogwaffe and Automattic

Dianne from Miss Havisham’s Tea Party

Kolby from Kahunna.net and Aaron from Aaron Proctor for Mayor of Pasadena

If you blog in or around Pasadena, and you would like to be on the email list for the next Quarterly Pasadena Bloggers’ Picnic, send me a note at eyelevelpasadena@gmail.com.

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Update 6/20/07: Pasadena Pundit was previously pictured here, too. He elected to move in a fewer photos of himself on the internet direction, so I removed his picture at his request.

Pasadena Now has a new (and beautiful) Blog Central page up with links to local Pasadena blogs (including a link to yours truly).

Aaron Proctor has a picture of the Allen Gold Line station up on his blog in what I can only hope will be the first of many “Eye Level Proctordena” posts.

Hollywood Flakes: Welcome Lovey!

Hee hee.