Mom in the City

Last Thursday, I was invited to speak on a panel about bloggers at Johnson & Johnson's Consumer Day.  I was psyched because the other bloggers have blogs (A Baby Boomer's Life After Fifty, Notes from the Trenches, and City Wendy) that are much more established than mines.  For me, it's always good to be able to learn from people who are farther along than I am in any area of life.

In any event, I took a car service out to Somerset, NJ and had a great lunch.  We were on the panel all of a good 15 minutes (if you blinked, you would have missed us) but at least we were able to speak with some of the audience members afterwards.  Normally, I would have been annoyed (the travel time ended up being longer than the actual event) but I was able to meet three great bloggers and get some helpful tips...especially from Chris of Notes from the Trenches.  (I'm such a rookie - twitter; second life; widgets; bloglines.com; truncating blogs, etc., etc. - I have a lot to learn about blogging!)  I was also able to get a good referral for a blog design company.  So, I decided that instead of a spa day for my birthday next month, I'll get the blog redesigned (OR I'll convince my husband that this is a legitimate "business expense" and get both ).