a peek inside the fishbowl

Tomorrow marks the 15th anniversary of the Fishbowl. Well, sort of. The blog is actually older than that, but when I started to try to figure out the actual date this was the earliest entry I could find at the time. Below is a screenshot of the original, because those old files are a mess of hand-rolled HTML that I haven’t bothered fixing up.

You can click to enlarge it:

I don’t want to get overly sentimental here, or have this post turn into a long humblebrag, but the blog has changed me. I can say – without hesitation – that it’s changed me and set me on a course I never could have predicted.

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#Malala Yousafzai tells me: “Girls in Nigeria are my sisters.” http://t.co/84YToo1Tdl #BringBackOurGirls @MalalaFund pic.twitter.com/Uk8Idx6N9O

— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) May 7, 2014

Outraged? Consider making a donation to an organization that promote girls’ rights to an education.

• Bring Back Our Girls: Why the World Is Finally Talking About Nigeria’s Kidnapped Students, Mashable.com
• Could the Internet Have Saved My Mother, Huffington Post
• Dads: The antidote to helicopter parenting, New York Post
• What if the sexual predator image you have in your mind is wrong?, danah boyd | apophenia
• Too much sweetness: ‘All sugars aren’t the same’, Globe and Mail

… especially to all those hardworking mama’s who can’t stop and take a break. :)