Yes, I con­fess to suf­fer­ing social media fatigue this sum­mer. I went into stealth mode on Twit­ter and hardly blogged at all. (And to be hon­est, I didn’t miss it!)

Instead I spent loads of time online with my fam­ily col­lab­o­rat­ing via Base­camp, a “closed com­mu­nity.” We shared mem­o­ries, pho­tos, laughs and tears as we got ready to help my mother and her twin brother cel­e­brate their 80th birth­day. It became addic­tive – each morn­ing we rushed to our com­puter to see who had writ­ten what last night. We laughed and cried. We dragged our spouse and the kids into the mix. [Read more…]