Articles in the TED Category
Featured, Headline, Homeless, Housing, People, Suze Orman, TED, Vandwelling »
Thirty minutes ago I was panicked. After a $400 doctor’s visit, a few days in a campground and some unexpected expenses (like a couple of tanks of gas after getting lost in the Virginia countryside – at $55 a tank) I was down, literally, to about $8 until Friday. Not as bad as it has been in the past, and yes, there are millions worse off, but it made me nervous. I felt scared, worried (the gas gauge on the van doesn’t work. I have to estimate my mileage and …
Featured, Headline, Observations, TED »
Shortly after a snapping a photo of a bowl of bananas with a tag that said, obviously enough, that they were “bananas,” a friend of mine and I laughed at how silly it seemed [then] to put a tag on something so obvious. Of course they were bananas! Then I rounded the table and saw several items, like Yorkshire Pudding, and some other exotic fruits and dishes I had no idea what they were. I heard a couple of Englishmen laughing at the idea that one would need to label …
Featured, Headline, Homeless, TED, Twitter, Vandwelling »
My Twitter account (@beckyblanton and my TED Twitter ) was hi-jacked several weeks, a month or more ago by one of the low-lifes who think it’s funny to post an ap and phish for account numbers. I fell for it. Now I no longer have a twitter account, although I get followers everyday.
I’ve emailed Twitter repeatedly….and get the same lame, confused response and NO account. The problem is, they want my phone number. I didn’t sign up with a phone number. I signed up online. There is NO phone number …
Featured, Headline, How-to, Inspiration, People, TED, Vandwelling »
CAPTION: Becky Blanton shakes Daniel Pink’s hand at the TED Global 2009 stage in Oxford, England July 2009.
For those of you who don’t know by now, I had to give the “Talk of my life,” at TED Global 2009 this past July. I’m not a public speaker really and had no idea how to give a talk that would be worthy of the brilliance and inspiration of TED. But thanks to a fantastic web site called “SixMinutes.com” I got through it and gave, I think, the talk of my life. …
