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Jill Foster

Happy New Year & Denver-bound, plus one questionDecember 30 2008

There’s lots to say about 2008 both to appreciate and grieve. It’s been a year well worth living because it taught so much about humility (and how I lacked it).

photo by Rickz

Apologies to be cryptic. It’s where I’m at mentally before boarding a plane to the Rockies to see my wonderful parents.

For next year, I concretely commit to:
-laughing so much till the point of pain;
-launching a business;
-greeting people with confident joy, resourcefulness, and a lighter mind i.e. on that last goal, the aim is to not greet life with such gravity.
-executing intention in health (gym and #twit2fit!), friends (more conscious gifts and appreciation to others!), and business (it’s time to specify and enact business plans long in the wings).

How about you?

What do you resolve to do that inspires your health and overall well-being to you, to others?

Twitter creates holiday stories in live time…& thanks for a great yearDecember 24 2008

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Thanks Twitter for a fantastic year of participating in a great, wide spectrum of community like:

• professional feedback (often when presenting live);
• political banter;
• DNC coverage and blogging it from Denver this year;
• collaboration offline, and in this case at BarCampDC 2008 with Shireen Mitchell i.e. @digitalsista;
• and fun(!).

Did you see this from Rich Becker? He describes Tw

Seven things you don’t know about meDecember 13 2008

Thanks Geoff Livingston and Doriano Carta aka Paisano for the tag.

So here’s to seven micro personal stories…:

1. (one of my mom’s favorites) … I was born in 1970, California, two months premature with a collapsed lung. Parents were not permitted to touch me for months until those protective Catholic nuns gave the green light;

fiscal tickle-with less tickle this time: a personal story with DC and homelessnessNovember 25 2008

review: comedy and deceipt manipulate love in congreve’s play “the way of the world”October 22 2008

Q: What defines the pinnacle of a blogger’s glee?
A: …being invited by DC’s Shakespeare Theatre Company to a media night performance of course!

And recently I enjoyed the opportunity to attend and thus review William Congreve’s The Way of the World directed by Michael Kahn.

The anticipation:
Congreve’s work was new to me so before the curtain drew, I was excited to learn of his storytelling style. The intimacy of Lansburgh Theatre accelerated this anticipation with its earth-toned auditorium and uniquely angled seating; somehow the theatre’s environment conveyed an aura that said: “Anticipating good entertainment is natural here!”

The story:
The play unfolds in the 17th century during England’s Restoration era. And my micro synopsis of this piece is: it’s a much more light hearted vers