Eden M. Kennedy

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  1. Join BlogHer's NaBloPoMo to Polish Your Blogging Skills

    5/23/11 11:16am by Eden M. Kennedy
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    NaBloPoMo Badge

    If there's one thing creative people agree on it's that the more you do something, the better you get at it. If you want to be a better writer, you have to write; if you want to be a better blogger, you have to post. And one way to break down the barriers between thinking about writing and actually doing it is by posting every day for a month.  Read more >

  2. 13 Passwords That Hackers Will Never Guess!

    12/17/10 12:00pm by Eden M. Kennedy
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    Password

    The world is full of people relying on easy-to-memorize passwords that they can use every time they feel the urge to look at terrible (but free!) pornography or comment on photos of adorable kittens, and the security breach revealed just how unimaginative we, as a planet of password-choosers, really are. Analysis of Gawker’s list of most-used passwords reveals our collective lack of concern with security. If you use any of these passwords, replace it immediately with one of the suggestions on the right.  Read more >

  3. "The Freebie" and Its Bizarre Self-Help-for-Swingers Web Site

    9/17/10 4:22pm by Eden M. Kennedy
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    Dax Shepard and Katie Aselton in The Freebie

    Don't tell the pope, but today -- Friday, September 17 -- is (unofficially) National Freebie Day. The producers of the new film The Freebie -- about a long-married couple who decide to give each other a free pass so that they can each have a fling with someone else -- would like to give married folk everywhere permission to tuck a condom in their pocket and go hit the bars in search of whatever it is they don't have at home.  Read more >

  4. What Not to Wear: Tween Edition

    7/26/10 4:00am by Eden M. Kennedy
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    Silly Bandz

    It was then I realized that his father had become responsible for buying every hip thing in my son's wardrobe. Somewhere along the line between those ironic onesies I used to buy from the Gap sale rack and the half-size Ray Bans his father discovered make Jackson look like a rock star, I had been usurped. My authority no longer extended any further than school uniform purchases and maintenance, but shopping had become a Man Sport for father and son, a new way to bond.  Read more >

  5. Green Sleeves

    10/26/06 4:57pm by Eden M. Kennedy
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    Surfers are like the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to testing ocean health, so it follows that the surf community is often on the leading edge of both youth and green retail. Granted, the average shopper in the eighteen-to-twenty-four demographic is probably not in the market for a nontoxic board form, but buyers looking for the latest in eco-hip, from bamboo skateboards to recycled plastic board shorts, found those things and more at last month's ASR (Action Sports Apparel) trade show in San Diego, California.  Read more >

  6. Bigshot Newspaper Tells Half the Story, Film at Eleven

    10/19/06 11:16am by Eden M. Kennedy
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    Today's NewYork Times carries this story (site requires registration) about the lengths a Colorado woman has gone to protect herself from the assault of environmental toxins. Caryl Shonbrun, 52, is living in a specially designed "safe house" in Ft. Collins, Colorado, in an effort to "live as free of offending chemicals as possible."  Read more >

  7. The Poor Breathe Easier in Seattle

    10/19/06 11:09am by Eden M. Kennedy
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    NPR's Morning Edition reported today on the Breathe Easy Homes in Seattle, a public housing development built specifically to diminish environmental irritants that provoke asthma attacks. Combining his passions for healthcare and social justice, project leader Dr.  Read more >

  8. Mrs. Cochrane's Invention

    10/17/06 10:41am by Eden M. Kennedy
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    Did you know that the dishwasher was invented by a woman? Her name was Josephine Cochrane and she was tired of seeing her servants chip the fine china. The dishwasher she developed went on to win the highest award for an invention at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, but one thing Mrs. Cochrane probably didn't foresee was all the detergents and crap that would end up washed into the environment for the sake of sparkly clean glasses and plates.  Read more >

Eden M. Kennedy

Full Name
Eden M. Kennedy
Member Since
June 2006
About Me: 

Eden M. Kennedy is the proud author of the blogs yogabeans!, where her son’s plastic action figures demonstrate the intricacies of ashtanga yoga, and Fussy, where she writes angry open letters to Justin Timberlake and chronicles her daily life. Fussy has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Newark Star-Ledger, and The New York Times, and was listed as one of the top ten most popular mommy blogs by The Wall Street Journal. Her work has appeared in several anthologies. Apart from all that, Eden has written for PBS’s Remotely Connected blog, Babble, and MamaPop, and she founded the popular social network National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). A former bookseller and magazine editor, she lives with her family in Southern California.

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