About Me
My blog has my opinion , news of all types, and stuff you probably didn’t even know exist. I just created it on { Nov. 20th} so please give it time to get going. Please share it with your friends because once it gets going you’ll love it! Let me explain more about the type of news that will be on here. Their will be urban news, sports news,entertainment news, book news, news in other countries and much more. If you just give it some more time you’ll love it.
What this blog is all about? « Eideard.
It’s the news your local newspaper – in fact, most American newspapers ignore: science, questions of politics and philosophy, ethics, science and principle. It’s the news that TV’s talking heads avoid as controversial or interesting only to a niche cadre of people who care about knowledge and how it affects the course of society’s growth.
It’s the news, it’s information, that Eideard finds interesting – and always has.
It’s opinions – as journal-keeper, diarist – from Eideard and KB, Hop and others about the world around us. How it changes and should or shouldn’t, does or doesn’t. Generally, from the point of view of a couple of folks who spend considerable time traveling the Earth – online.
We make no pretense of journalism; but, as diarist, we turn to the few quality sources available online that nourish a conversation of the mind at a positive diagonal to lives cushioned in timorous security.
Please reflect and react – to the topic. There is no detailed comments guideline, yet, other than “stick to the topic”. The much larger blogs we’re associated with have detailed rules for the public; but, “Eideard” will travel without them as long as practical.
Social scientists tell us the average human being stops learning at age 26. Stops inquiring and settles into day-by-day normalcy. I never believed in doing that. I hope you don’t, either.
I’m Caitlin Kelly, a lifetime print journalist, writing for a living since college. A generalist, my work runs the gamut from personal essays for The New York Times to business writing, sports, travel, design — anything that challenges me.
Here at Broadside, I talk about everything — often about women, work, journalism, books, culture, family and relationships.
My new book, a memoir for Portfolio/Penguin, is about working retail in a suburban mall for more than two years. “Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail” is funny, poignant and a detailed, unprecedented look into the nation’s third largest industry. It’s out April 14, 2011.
Entertainment Weekly called it “an excellent memoir” and it’s been featured in Marie-Claire, USA Today, People, Time.com, Fortune.com, Forbes.com, allure.com.
I also contributed a piece to the Harvard Business Review blog about the overlooked value of retail associates.
“Rollicking and riveting” , says biographer Meryl Gordon. “Kelly’s powerful descriptions of retail…highlight so much of what is wrong with our economy” said David Madland, Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress.
My 11 Reporting Tips from daily newspaper veterans appeared in the May 2010 issue of The Writer magazine. You’ll find much more about me, and samples of my newspaper and magazine writing, at this website. Here’s the site for my first book “Blown Away: American Women and Guns.”
I also coach fellow writers and edit their work; Please email me for my rates.
