Happy Birthday to Joni Evans, our fearless (and I do mean fearless) leader who embodies vision, kindness, determination, style, humility, compassion and a deliciously wicked sense of humor. May this year be your very best one yet. xox D

Liz, Happy Birthday, dearest wowie zowie woman … it’s such a delight to get to know you personally these last few months. How much I learn from you every single day.

Just weighing in here to say hi to all of our wonderful wowOwowers on this, the most patriotic day I can recall in many a long time…maybe July 4, 1976, the bicentennial? Thanks for sharing all of your thoughts with us on this board.

Community Note:  We’ve posted Leigh Ann’s resume idea forward into its own story that you can read at http://www.wowowow.com/post/leigh-anns-daily-deed-idea-surreptitious-kindness-178249.  More to come!

Hi, thanks, we have. Early reports last night had him at 67. 

Community Note: We’ve posted Lorraine Bates’ idea forward into its own story that you can read here.   More to come!

Community Note:  Diana T, thank you for sharing this wonderful You Tube on this thread.  I am going to pull it forward into its own post so that everyone can see it.  Happy New Year’s and thank you.

-Deborah

Ladeeees: Web 101. A note about photo essays. They’re the number one “content type” on websites as measured by traffic and page views (there must be a thousand photo essays on Martha!). They attract hundreds of thousands of brand new readers, and they add some good old fashioned fun to the site so we have a happy balance of stories that keeps everyone happy…both our beloved serious, politically-minded commenters as well as our beloved “please, just entertain me or show me something pretty - new - interesting” readers… Class dismissed~ *joking!* -Your trusty web slave, er, I mean Editor-in-Chief, Deborah

Community Note:  We’ve posted Frances Stier’s idea forward into its own story that you can read here.  More to come! By Deborah Barrow on 12/26/2008 10:26 am

Community Note:  We’ve posted Mugsy’s idea forward into its own story that you can read here.  More to come!

Community Note:  We’ve posted Belinda’s resume idea forward into its own story that you can read at http://www.wowowow.com/post/daily-deed-community-member-resume-advice-161583.  More to come!

a day of contemplation…

Can I weigh in, too? I am lucky in that I have employment in this extraordinary downturn that has caused so many to lose their jobs and careers in the media business. So to celebrate and give back a little bit, I went to the local IGA grocery story in the country hamlet I occasion on weekends (IGAs are independently owned, which is a nice way of supporting a local business rather than a big box corporation) and bought individual $50 grocery gift cards and gave them to the local community action agency. They are in touch every day with families in dire straits and are able to distribute to them in times like now. I hope we are able to continue this holiday tradition in our family into the new year as well.

Bette, Wendy Gramm was at the CFTC before Born, but while she was there, she managed to have the Ponzi schemers at Enron exempted from pesky energy trading regulations, only to resign her post to join the board of Enron until it went right down the tubes