WHY

Why the name “Kalilily Time”? Kalilily is pronounced like calla lily, which is my favorite flower.

Kali is for the Hindu Goddess Kali. Lily is for Adam’s original wife, Lilith — both formidable female archetypes.

I began this blog in 2001, when I started as my mother’s live-in caregiver as she began slipping into dementia. The time I spent writing on my blog and reading others was my alone time. As a personal blog, it is pretty much a chronicle of my life, interspersed with essays on whatever topics struck my interest at the time and some of my poetry.

I began when blogging was new, and I was fortunate to become part of a blogging community that included some of the most respected individuals in the fields of technology and communication. As a result, I was invited to attend the first blogging conference held at Harvard. While they all went on to write books and make even bigger names for themselves, I simply continued to blog.

Early on, I was quoted in several newspaper feature articles about women bloggers, and I was one of the oldest female bloggers at the time. When Jeneane Sessum had the idea of a “Blogsisters” site, she invited me to moderate it with her.

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/a-selective-list-of-blogs.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-07-30-0307300044-story.html

https://womensenews.org/2004/08/women-go-blogging-and-find-freedom-speech/  

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121259672013845371