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CoachingFebruary 1, 2010

I’m geeky, you’re geeky, we’re all geeky at She’s Geeky

A perfect storm of synergy develops into an inspiring organic agenda when 300 women working in the STEM fields gather at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

By Wanda Hennig

Super-geek and Berkeley–based internet identity guru Kaliya Hamlin mounted her first She’s Geeky ‘un’conference in October 2007 and her most recent, last weekend. They grew from her observation that while women are encouraged to enter the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — once women leave school and enter the workforce,

CoachingJanuary 5, 2010

Visualizations, creativity and the incredible oneness of being

An inner journey can be more spectacular — and revealing — than a trip around the world. And a weekend spent doing something you really […]

Lifestyle FeaturesOctober 28, 2009

Six Steps to Vlogging Success

From Beast Bloggers Camp, Tech Liminal, Oakland, October 24, 2009 Zennie (Zennie62) Abraham presents at Tech Liminal Six-step process to shooting your own video — […]

BuddhismOctober 28, 2009

The Zen of Food

It’s sometimes fast, always Slow, deafeningly quiet and a metaphor for life.

Story and Pictures: Wanda Hennig First appeared: East Bay Edible

“In Zen practice we want our intuition — our universal self — to come forth,” says Berkeley Zen Center abbot, Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi. “When you’re doing simple tasks [like peeling broccoli or breaking lettuce into bite-size bits], your body, mind, the broccoli, the knife, your hand, the breath, are all involved. When you keep bringing your attention back to what you’re doing — when you are simply one with your activity — it’s the same as sitting zazen.”

Erotica and RelationshipsOctober 11, 2009

Sex, Social Media and New Zealand — (Part 1)

Travel writing in the age of blogs, twitter — and when ‘viral’ is desirable.

By Wanda Hennig A veteran print journalist and editor — turned online writer, blogger and social media buff — embarks on a real-life travel writing-cum-social media project and invites you along for the ride. Tips, hints, pitfalls to avoid, good practices to aspire to, facts, fallacies and all the write stuff.

The invitation in my inbox read:

“Dear Wanda  — Love is in the air at Air New Zealand as the airline prepares for the world’s first Matchmaking Flight. On October 13, an estimated 100 singles will journey from Los Angeles to Auckland, each with the hope of finding a match in air,

Lifestyle FeaturesSeptember 30, 2009

The great East Bay Beast Bloggers Bar Camp

The happening was in Oakland at Tech Liminal. So — what is the nature of The Beast?

On a Saturday morning in late July, just after a flock of white pelicans arrived for an extended stay at Lake Merritt, a group of activists, bloggers, would-be bloggers, vloggers, Twitter gurus, print journalists transitioning to the web in the age of social media, high-tech nerds, and others, gathered at Tech Liminal in Oakland for the East Bay’s first Beast Bloggers Bar Camp. People at the event, hosted by journalism micro-funding project Spot.Us, Oakland technical hotspot and salon Tech Liminal and Oakland’s must-read independent politics and development blog, A Better Oakland had been advised to arrive: With coffee mug and a laptop (or notebook and pen); prepared to talk blogging

HeadlineSeptember 10, 2009

Alive in South Africa: When an expat goes ‘home’

What is it like to return to your roots, your soil, for the first time after you’ve emigrated and made a new life in Australia? […]

Culinary TravelSeptember 8, 2009

Eat Thiebaud, drink Blue Bottle, see Avedon at SFMOMA

Richard Avedon Photographs, 1946 – 2004, runs July 11 to November 29 at SFMOMA. James Freeman’s newest Blue Bottle coffee shop is located high above […]

FeaturedJuly 5, 2009

Botti Beautiful

You know you’re a jazz superstar when you make a slow, dark, moody, melancholy record and it tops the charts.

Story by Wanda Hennig Photo courtesy the artist First published in Black Diamond Living magazine

We all know Sinatra, Paul Simon and Sting. Most of us, however, didn’t know trumpeter Chris Botti until late in 2004. Strange when you think that his first professional gig was with Sinatra; that for five years, starting in 1990, he played the world with Simon; and that he joined Sting as a featured soloist in 1999 and the two have collaborated ever since.

CoachingMay 12, 2009

Keeping Up Appearances

A great many people were surprised when they heard who was getting a $100,000 extreme makeover. Why would a successful, talented, bright — and at face value, super-confident public figure — enter the ugly duckling contest?

Story by Wanda Hennig First published in Black Diamond Living magazine It started with a routine morning scan of East Bay newspapers — part of the standard daily work drill for Devi Lanphere, CEO of the Antioch Chamber of Commerce in east Contra Costa County. This time the piece that caught her eye might not, at first glance, have seemed work-related. It announced an extreme makeover contest. Read more …