How to sum up the past 72 hours at SXSW?

Members of the Blog Team are heading down to Austin this weekend to kick-start their first official foray into the informational/sensory overload that is SXSW.

Many of you know that my mother passed away a little over a year ago (to read her tribute click here).  Since then, things have been....well...interesting.  I have a younger brother who is disabled, and I've been making sure he was okay (while maintaining a respectful distance) while trying to sell my parents' home of over 40 years (in which my b

We’ve grown up with Black History Month as a backdrop for our lives.  Remember your first attempts at diligently staying inside the lines of crude crayon drawings on mimeograph paper?  We drew images depicting these “heroes” of our recent past, many of which we had just been introduced to:  Martin Luther King, Sojourner Truth, Marian Anderson, Arthur Ashe, Thurgood Marshall ...

Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone touched by these sorrowful events, including our interline friends at Colgan Air and Continental Airlines.