Monthly Archives: October 2009

Happy Halloween everyone.

Take a minute and go to twitter, enter #trick or #treat into the status update. No other words, just #trick or #treat.

It’s fun. Trust me and it will only work today.

From an emotionless place I see the wisdom in allowing families to terminate adoptions.

From the very specific lens of motherhood, and as a woman who knows more of adoption than most (to be discussed another day), I cannot comprehend this.

Here are my questions that have gone unanswered:

Why does this woman need to be on that national news?
Sometimes trying your best is still a failure. Can we admit that?
It does not go both ways, don’t blame the baby.
What about her other children? What will the biological children do when they have abandonment issues, as they should?
Where is the shame? Why is she on the Today show instead of hiding?

I have nothing nice to say to Anita Tedaldi, so I guess I’ll say nothing at all.

Last week I got an email from Six Apart and this is exactly what is said:

Jessica, we know you’re going to say no, so we’re going to beg and plead with you. Will you please pretty please review the Peek Pronto Mobile Messaging Device for us on October 30th. In return you will get to keep the Peek.*

And my exact response was:

No, that is stupid.**

But then they said:

But Jessica, we love you best.

So I asked them to overnight it, and that is honest to goodness how the entire conversation went and even if you have your sister working at Six Apart I need you to know they love me best. (more…)

Have you ever stood at the service line, crouched down, tossed the ball into the air with the slightest spin, brought your right arm up at the perfect angle for a deep hard serve, and then been so overwhelmed by the foulness of your underarm odor that you missed the serve?

Oh no. Me either.

I’m running out to the 140 Conference.

I’ll be all ears and hopefully have a new application to talk to you about next week. For the time being I’ll share a little secret with you. If you go on twitter and follow @BMaso you’ll be privy to the short but sweet thoughts of one of the smartest guys in tech.