Desert Pond

Author: Erica

  • Why Can’t We All Just Hunt for Eggs Today?

    Had it not been for the story about ship Captain Richard Phillips having made his escape today, I would have preferred to miss today’s news. I got caught up in the whole Twitter worm story and the 17 year old boy behind the worm and in my research I went to CNN.   Killings and shootings, drug deals gone wrong and dead children.   A retired priest loses control of his car and kills a parishioner.  How could a day so full of promise contain such tragedy?   The world just doesn’t stop for anything – does it?

  • My Thoughts on Social Bookmarking

    I admit, I love everything internet. I’m absolutely fascinated by the amount of information you can so quickly have at your fingertips. I’m old enough to remember having to physically visit libraries to do any research for homework in college. I did not have the luxury of grabbing handfuls and chunks of information from a device in my own home until I was well into my career. I watch in awe as my five year old moves with lightning speed through his online world on Club Penguin. I blog, I play with HTML, I search, and I seek. But today’s current trends and focus on social bookmarking has me baffled.

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  • Desert Pond Goes Live

    It’s late on a Sunday night and I’m stretching it, making it last as long as I can.  A typical feeling for Sunday.  Tomorrow, I will get up, race around the house, gather my electronics, my badge, maybe a spare pair of shoes for walking downtown, hustle kids out the door and race my way to the office.   I will attend meeting after meeting, make decisions, read email, make phone calls, answer phone calls and rush until the end of the work day.  I will pray my husband is at the bus stop on time to get the kids and that someone remembers to feed the dog.  When I come home, I will sigh because I really need to clean the kitchen, sweep and mop the floors and scrub a few toilets.  My energy will be spent so none of this will get done.   Next weekend, I think.  I’ll tackle it then.  I won’t….but it calms the stress if I at least say to myself that I will.

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