I grew up in Montana and part of me is still in aisle 11 at K-mart trying on Garanimals with my sisters. My six years as a single mother taught me much more than college. I love to write but I may be a better waitress. I left traditional journalism for online in 1997 because it felt so much more real than anything I was asked to read or produce in print or broadcast. I started BlogHer because Elisa and Jory are smart enough to make anything happen -- and because I didn't want to wait for women who blog to be validated by any outside group when we can do it ourselves. And look: We are.

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Not sure where I use the tag...I need a bit more direction and then I definitely want to play.

elana
Blogher Contributing Editor,Business&CareersFunnyBusiness

but the gist of what I said is: "Would that be the witty me or the wise one? The goofy me? Or the shy one? The academic? The shrink? The political junky? The newly-single woman? Too many choices; too little time. I'm a writer and my blog is my magazine. Kinda like Life, and my byline's ByJane

By Jane
ByJane.blogspot.com

I grew up in Nova Scotia, and whenever I go back it feels like I never left. I married an Upper Canadian, and it amuses me. I probably think you think I'm a dork. My dog insists on sleeping under the covers of my bed. I quit my job two months ago and I've never felt more human since then. I recently discovered I am an INFP, and finding that out explained a great deal. I won't remember your name; this is just one of those things. I am in the middle of a relaunch of my life, and it's kinda fun.

ThreeSeven... attention deficits at work.

hi i’m elysa, betcha already knew that. i have a weird love of technology. i am a blonde computer nerd (is that an oxy moron). i am a 25 year old graphic designer. my favorite color changes every time someone asks. i suck at sports and all things requiring athletic abilities. i don’t even know how to ride a bike, how ridiculous is that? i am a born and raised texas girl but i don’t know that i’ve ever worn a pair of cowboy boots. i believe there are lessons to learn in every aspect of life.

so there is the randomness of me - i am a daughter, sister, fiance, friend, student, designer, and i am me.

ps - i like to type in lowercase :D

****
GenPink | A New Generation of Women

My ten second introduction is posted here on my blog.

Looking forward to seeing you all!
-Stephanie

Gidge
Mine is up at http://livefromthewangofamerica.blogspot.com

also be sure to visit me at my booth in Blogher Second Life for rockin Freebies from Coconut Ice and Gift cards, plus some lovely chocolate martinis!

Be sure to visit the VIcious Booth (you can't miss it) for some more great freebies, really really really cheap hair and clothes (do you have something cute to wear out to see Toe'd Up?) as well as Linden Raffles!!!

See you in Second Life! I can't wait to do Blogher in my jammies!

10 second copy and paste:

As if I could do ANYTHING, in ten seconds - besides shave my legs, hide under the covers and make up flimsy excuses for the amount of dirty laundry, or dust bunnies of enormous size, of course - but, Mocha Mom has this great way of knowing just what it takes to make a person feel, you know, welcome.

So, what can I say…about myself…that sums me up in a nut shell - shuddup! - well, since I’m already late for an appointment (I know, act surprised) how about this?

* Mother of 4, subhuman caretaker to 2 cats and 1 sock-eating Doofus-dog.
* Lover of multi-functional gadgets and slayer of all appliances proved either slow and/or inefficient.
* Wife, of nearly 17 years, to The Hubs - rarely photographed, but is said to be a cross between Dennis Miller and Garth Brooks.
* Born under the sign of Gemini and a very proud twin sister to a Sgt. 1st Class - Go Army!
* Daughter to a doer and a dreamer.
* Loved by many; even though she’s a total DORK!

Sounds more like a epitaph - I know! - but, I haven’t flown in nearly 15 years and I do believe that the 2 1/2 hour ride just may kill me!

If anyone needs me, I’ll be cleaning, packing and white-knuckling my way through the week!

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Family.com
Imperfect Parent
This Full House
This Full House of Reviews

10 copy and blog paste:

As if I could do ANYTHING, in ten seconds - besides shave my legs, hide under the covers and make up flimsy excuses for the amount of dirty laundry, or dust bunnies of enormous size, of course - but, Mocha Mom has this great way of knowing just what it takes to make a person feel, you know, welcome.

So, what can I say…about myself…that sums me up in a nut shell - shuddup! - well, since I’m already late for an appointment (I know, act surprised) how about this?

* Mother of 4, subhuman caretaker to 2 cats and 1 sock-eating Doofus-dog.
* Lover of multi-functional gadgets and slayer of all appliances proved either slow and/or inefficient.
* Wife, of nearly 17 years, to The Hubs - rarely photographed, but is said to be a cross between Dennis Miller and Garth Brooks.
* Born under the sign of Gemini and a very proud twin sister to a Sgt. 1st Class - Go Army!
* Daughter to a doer and a dreamer.
* Loved by many; even though she’s a total DORK!

Sounds more like a epitaph - I know! - but, I haven’t flown in nearly 15 years and I do believe that the 2 1/2 hour ride just may kill me!

If anyone needs me, I’ll be cleaning, packing and white-knuckling my way through the week!

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Family.com
Imperfect Parent
This Full House
This Full House of Reviews

What a great idea! Looking forward to meeting you all. Here's mine.

My friends gave me this trip to Chicago as a 40th birthday present.

My birthday is on August 4th.

I am a full-time cancer patient, living a really full life.

I have been with my spouse for more than 16 years.

It was NOT love at first sight.

I must not have been wearing my glasses.

My sons are as different as two boys can be, except that they are both brilliant, beautiful and loving.

They also drive me crazy and I love them to distraction.

I love Scrabble, wine, dark chocolate, knitting and a really good book.

I love the way my dog smells.

I am completely bilingual in French and English.

I am happy.

This was more than 10 seconds.

laurie
www.notjustaboutcancer.blogspot.com

My friends gave me this trip to Chicago as a 40th birthday present.

My birthday is on August 4th.

I am a full-time cancer patient, living a really full life.

I have been with my spouse for more than 16 years.

It was NOT love at first sight.

I must not have been wearing my glasses.

My sons are as different as two boys can be, except that they are both brilliant, beautiful and loving.

They also drive me crazy and I love them to distraction.

I love Scrabble, wine, dark chocolate, knitting and a really good book.

I love the way my dog smells.

I am completely bilingual in French and English.

I am happy.

This was more than 10 seconds.

laurie
www.notjustaboutcancer.blogspot.com

I always write too much. Greater economy of words is a skill I'm hoping to enhance in J-school....

See y'all tomorrow!

Laurie
LaurieWrites

I just joined BlogHer this week, and am very happy to have found this amazing community! Thanks for the meme – it's a great way for a newcomer like me to join in. I've posted my intro on my blog .

Mary Kearns
StellarSelf | Growing Toward Balance

Read me at http://cindy-weallfalldown.blogspot.com/2007/07/ten-second-introduction....

See you Saturday on Navy Pier! Notice the Ferris Wheel? Our friends Deb and Scott got married in one of the cars. Whee!

I was born with normal hearing, grew up hard of hearing in a family with five generations of hearing loss. When I was 19, I was barefooting (waterskiing on my bare feet) and slammed into the water sideways. I thought I had water in my ears for days--turns out I had become deaf.
The hubby is deaf, my three kids are deaf and hard of hearing and we live with a dog who can hear a rabbit breathing a half mile away and barks to let us know.
Before you clutch your heart and sigh, I should share that we live a full life--a nice house in a nice subdivision in a nice town in the Midwest--we just can't hear. Most of our communication goes on via lipreading or sign. So if we ever meet, plop yourself front and center, slow your speech down just a tad and I promise not to bite.
I'm a Leo who enjoys books and hot baths and the occasional margarita or grape-flavored Koolaid.

Karen
"Life is too short to pout all the time."
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World
Hands & Voices

I'm a freelance writer and editor who until recently thought I had absolutely no talent in the visual arts. But I've been painting and no one has laughed yet. I long for the sea and feel most like myself near large bodies of water. (Yet I live in a nearly landlocked state.) I need everyday beauty to feel whole. I'm not sure if I've ever been stung by a bee, and my very first cavity at the age of 23 involved a root canal. I'm currently reading The Artist's Way and it's changing my life. If you like good food, deep conversation, and thinking for yourself, let's be friends!

(Why do I feel like I just wrote a personal ad?)

~Jenn
www.thewordcellar.blogspot.com

I'm 40, separated, raising my 15 year old daughter, i love living near the water, sometimes i forget to capitalize my "i"s, i adore CSI: Las Vegas, I'm a floral designer, I love to eat crusty french bread, ice cream, peanut butter fudge and my mom's meatloaf, which, incidentally, never turns out the same way twice. Stay away from her pork chops, though... they could put a hole in your wall!

Rarely laugh at jokes, but have no trouble laughing at myself and at life in general.If money were no object I would be traveling the world,talking to women in business and sharing their stories. Alas and alack, money is an object that I have to include in my lifestyle.Big transition year for me, my daughter is off to college in six weeks and that will leave me and my dog Uma Thurman to fend for ourselves.

blogme2007

elana
Blogher Contributing Editor,Business&CareersFunnyBusiness

I was an accomplished tomboy as a kid. Still am, I guess. I'm sure I'll be the oldest person at BlogHer: the tomboy with gray hair. I look forbidding on the outside, but give me a chance and I'll show you that I'm not. I think about boring stuff like HTML. I wake up at 5:30 AM eager to write about it, so I'm not much of a party girl. I want to take your photograph.

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

Great meme! Mine's on my blog:

http://marilyn.typepad.com/california_fever/

(And, no, I still haven't figured out the signature...I'll wait for BlogHer to do it for me.) ;)

I was born in blue-collar western Massachusetts and have lived as far west as Colorado and as far east as England, with the last 25 years in and around NYC. I have no living relatives. Lots of dear friends. I read a lot, love estate sales, rummage sales, flea markets. Am fairly Bohemian in nature, love paisley, good books, strong coffee, good art. I am looking forward to the happy end of my long search for a house in Massachusetts where I will re invent my life once again. Jazz fan. Love gardening. Can't make a decent pie crust to save my life and can't sew worth spit.

~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs relentlessly at Time's Fool

My ten seconds of fame is here! http://thedanafiles.com/2007/07/19/blogme-2007/

I haven’t been away from my child for more than 2 days. Ever. I’m going to party hard. (I feel the guilt creeping in already).

I’m secretly (not anymore) afraid that I will be the biggest dork at BlogHer. (This is only because it's my first time attending and I'm really shy.)

I’m so very excited to meet Mocha Momma. So much so that I’ve bought her a gift. (Yes. Yes, I have. I hope you love it.) She’s probably going to think I’m some kind of crazy-stalker-girl. But truly, she was my second blogging inspiration (I discovered the Caffeinated Librarian first) and I adore her.

I’m from Wisconsin, which is a very important tid-bit of info for those of you participating in The Great BlogHer Photo Scavenger Hunt sponsored by Cool Mom Picks.

And...I can't wait to meet you all at the conference!!!

Just about every waking moment is taken up by my business, which is why I regretfully won't be attending BlogHer this year. I'm painfully shy and have a really hard time getting to know new people in an unstructured format and I'm awful at small talk, which is why I met almost nobody at last year's conference. (That and a horrid crisis relating to business, which gave me chronic heartburn, several days of four-digit blood pressure and cost so much professionally and personally that I figure I must be incredibly wise by now. Isn't that what they say about lessons learned?) I'm my own worst critic (at least I hope I am), which is why I tend to spend too much time on everything, thus sucking up all the time in the day. I spent more than 10 seconds writing this, but I wonder if in this case I'm not alone.

Laura Scott
design, snap, blog

I grew up and still live in St. Louis city, cannot imagine myself living in the 'burbs. I am a compulsive planner, hate lateness, think flip-flops aren't "real shoes," and it has already taken me approximately fifteen minutes to write this 10-second version of me. (But that doesn't mean I'm inflexible. Not really.) I like cats, cowboys (despite being a city girl), and thrift stores. I still don't own an iPod or a digital camera, but I'm somewhat of a geek.

...that the code given for the logo included an alt attribute.

May I suggest alt="Blog Me 2007 introduction"?

Thanks!
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Flooded Lizard Kingdom
All Access Blogging
Heroine Content

I'm SO excited to be going.... and I'll be late for the first day. Sorry.

To see the rest of my meme, go here:

Link TextCrazedmommy.blogspot.com

Can't wait to meet ya'all!

Shash

RJ (entering 6th grade!) thinks you should know that I am patient.

E (entering 4th grade!) jumped in with “evillllllll” which annoyed Prince J who obviously wanted to use this one himself.

Instead the good Prince (entering 8th grade, OMG how did that happen) said you should know I am cool. Heh. I’m sure he means evil in a cool way but E screwed that right up for him. (The three older children are off in their own worlds and unavailable for comment at this time.)

I suppose I should mention I’m a lesbian since that was apparently not obvious at the last BlogHer conference.

I will probably not sit still or stand still for long at the conference, nothing personal - I just like to talk to everyone and make sure I don’t miss anyone. I also hate seeing people sitting or standing alone so I will probably attempt to corral the loners and toss them into the loud and boisterous mommy groups or pair them up with other quiet types. If you’re feeling lonely, grab me and I’ll help. It’s what I do best.

~Denise
Fast Times @ Homeschool High & Flamingo House Happenings

Mine's up on my blog:

http://littleelephants.typepad.com/little_elephants/2007/07/me-in-ten-se...

So looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting the new ones!

Vero.
Little Elephants
You'll also find me on the Silicon Valley Moms Blog and at eHub

Please, keep 'em coming!

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Mine is up on my blog.

http://crazybloggincanuck.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogher-or-bust.html

Can't wait to meet so many fantastic ladies!

As instructed by BlogHer's great leader, Lisa Stone, I present tiny revealing shards of me-isms throughout the years:

ClizBiz, age 10:
"I don't see why I have to wear a shirt outside when I don't even have boobies yet."

ClizBiz, age 20:
"No, really, I'm very conservative. I only took half a hit of acid 'cause I had to drive home."

ClizBiz, age 30:
"I only fear two things in this life: Getting married and NOT getting married."

ClizBiz, age 40:
"And then which button do I press?"

More of the same on my Blog.

BlogHer Contributing Editor, Photography
Proprietor, ClizBiz

Me, in Ten Seconds*

I was born in 1969, on the cusp betwixt Saggittarius and Scorpio. Ye shall know me by my confusing accent, like everything else about me, a bit of this, a bit of that. I am a proud Newfoundlander (please do not call me a Newfie), but am dug deep into Arkansas red dirt. I met my love on a Liz Phair BBS. My father was a poet. My mother is a lawyer. My eyes are green. I like a nice syrah. I am willful, intense, self-absorbed, an incorrigible smartypants.

But I will make you love me, supposing it kills us both.

*ten seconds in my Newfoundland accent; ten minutes in mid-southern drawl.

cross posted by Kyran at Notes to Self

complete with photos from last years' conf.
Blogme Erin

Politics & News Contributing Editor
Queen of Spain

I'm a second generation American of mixed European peasant stock; as such, I'm strong, independent and optimistic. Also short, dark ash blonde (the box says) and bespectacled.

I'm a survivor of emotional abuse; as such, I'm careful with my words and easily perceive slights.  (often when not intended). But I laugh a lot and listen well.

I'm a middle-aged, post-menopausal female; as such, I've got a good sense of humor and warm heart.  Often that warmth just can't be contained!

I'm a married woman with 2 dogs and no kids who loves baseball, sci-fi, creative activities and who just recently developed a love for working out.  I can explain the infield fly rule, discuss the brilliance that is Joss Whedon's society in Firefly (and how I think it's based on Walmart's world domination) and do either while I'm knitting socks or doing bicep curls. 

I am contemplating some major changes in my life in the next couple years.  Yet I'm happier than I have ever been (when I'm not scared sleepless). 

Debra
Crossposted at A Stitch In Time

I did it.

Liz Rizzo lives in Los Angeles, dates a hunky actor, and aims to direct television. Dreamer since 1971, blogger since 2005, Democrat since last month. Pieces of her soul will forever reside by the downtown fountain in West Palm Beach, in the lobby of the FSU Film School, and hovering above the stars on Hollywood Blvd.

Her heart she brings with her, bruises and all.

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess and On The Lot.

O.K. Here goes...Ten seconds about me (hope I don't bore you to death). Wait a minute...Why is this graphic a boy??? Something is just not right about that. Sorry, I'm ready now...

I grew up in Pennsylvania, where some of my fondest childhood memories are of cooking with my mother, doing the chicken dance with my grandmother, and riding my bike to the mall with my friends. I recently moved to Florida with my son (16), and my daughter (13), we love to go to the beach, and on Mother's day we even saw some dolphins.

Whenever I cook something special, I'll say it's my "world famous" recipe...I'm a legend in my own mind. And just as I cooked with my mother, now my daughter and I cook together, and we also sometimes collaborate on a "world famous" recipe. Honestly, if I'm not going to teach her how to be a little crazy, who will?

I'm a nurse by profession, but unable to work due to several chronic problems, and I write all about that exciting part of my life at "Living With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". I'm also very happy for the opportunity to be writing about health and wellness, as a contributing editor for BlogHer.

Do you want to hear something really funny? I just had to reset my Internet because my pages weren't loading, and once I got back online I was at the Yahoo front page, and this is what was pictured. Well, that is just too funny. Guess who my first kiss was? Yup. It was at a car show in Philadelphia, and I waited in line with a friend for over an hour with about a hundred other girls (I think I was in 6th or 7th grade). What are the chances of me writing about my childhood memories and then one just pops right up on the Internet? Maybe it's not so funny....maybe it's destiny??? Probably not, I'm pretty sure he doesn't remember me. Although, I am pretty unforgettable.

Well this is suddenly going way over ten seconds, sorry about that. I guess I just won't be able to tell you about all the other famous people I've kissed. Maybe I'll tell you when I see you at the conference. Until then.

Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan
also at Women 4 Hope and Informed Voters