I like being in places where things get made. I grew up next to a humming Detroit Diesel Allison factory and freight train line. Those noises and smells are instinctively comforting to me. Pittsburgh is a city whose very existence has to do with making things. I love this place. I love the grit, the [...]
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Places where things get made; Pittsburgh
Posted in American culture, Design, Food porn, Parenthood, tagged De Luca, foodies in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Strip District, Wholeys on March 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Only three more days
Posted in Parenthood on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For three more days I can say, “Oh I have three teenage sons.” No, I am not adopting out the one who gives me fits. (Depends on the day, which one that is.) It’s far less sinister than that. You see, I just got off the phone with son #1, and I wished him “Happy [...]
Sometimes it’s the little things
Posted in Parenthood, tagged Bostonmamas.com, Christine Koh on November 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve juggled being a mother, and a career, for so long that living in a constant squeeze play seems normal. But I was still surprised to learn how grateful BostonMamas founder Christine Koh was that we welcomed her daughter Laurel to a recent meeting at the Daily Grommet offices. I am sure the super-smart and [...]
Pod Design, Ho Ho’s, and digital camera woes
Posted in Parenthood, Start-ups, tagged Agile Commerce, Eric Marthinsen, Ho Ho's, Lizzie Curran, Olympus OM-1, Pod Design, Steve Curran on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We’ve been blessed with great partners in developing Daily Grommet. You saw Eric Marthinsen (of Agile Commerce) in the launch video. Equally key has been Pod Design, who did our front end design and guided us on video strategy. Their great work, professionalism, and partnership approach has been delightful. But I was really touched when [...]
And so it goes…
Posted in Parenthood, Start-ups on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I showed my husband and two of my sons a batch of new Daily Grommet videos last night. They were a collection of our upcoming product conversations (between me and Joanne), and a couple videos that are meant to live on our site longer term, to tell the Daily Grommet story. It’s still scary to [...]
Of surprise candy apples and underfed teenagers
Posted in American culture, Food porn, Parenthood, tagged 196 Degree Celcius Candy Apple, Dana Cowin, Food & Wine, Mircroplane grater, Seiji Yamamoto, Stop and Shop, teenage diet on August 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Food & Wine magazine published its 30th anniversary issue this month. I’ve read every issue for 26 of those years. This was an improbable outcome for a person who grew up on Ragu and Stovetop Stuffing. Offered a dirt-cheap subscription in college, I started the habit and could never kick it. Sensual food photography, elaborate [...]
Dog-sharing
Posted in American culture, Parenthood, tagged Add new tag, dog sharing, Wall Street Journal, WSJ on August 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Todays’WSJ has a front page piece on pet-time-sharing. Pros, cons, case studies. Hey there Journal– we did that for six years with our greyhound Gracie. In the vast pantheon of work-family-pet survival solutions, this was one of the winningest endeavors yet. In fact, during this sharing period, my visiting pal Claudia was surprised one day [...]
Vinyl Sentiments
Posted in American culture, Cultural anthropology, Design, Parenthood, tagged Add new tag, Bread, Sivertones on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My oldest boy soon returns to college as an RA in his dorm. He has to have his hall doors decorated with thematic name tags before the students return. He had the clever idea to go to a Goodwill store and buy twenty old vinyl albums and put the kids’names on them. I said, “Heck, [...]
Like Mother, Like Son
Posted in Design, Parenthood, tagged Carnegie Mellon, Donna Melcher, University of Michigan on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My oldest boy, Dane, is studying design at Carnegie Mellon. You’d think having a industrial designer mother would have made that a natural. But when he first started expressing interest in the field, I made him jump through hoops to prove he really knew what he was in for, and not just attracted to design [...]
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