Author Archives: Kathleen

About Kathleen

Kathleen Heuer is an arts advocate, writer, and social media consultant located in western Pennsylvania, with deep roots in Chicagoland and plenty of experience working with arts education on a national level. She founded a local grassroots organization, Relight the Lamp, which hopes to restore a treasured local landmark movie theater into a community arts center. Her background is in advertising and marketing for music, the arts and other nonprofits. She is married to a brilliant nuclear engineer and is the mom to two beautiful girls.

320 Blog Posts that Changed My Career

Posted on September 7, 2012

This post was inspired by Michelle Rafter and posted over at BlogHer. I started blogging in 2008, mostly to save my sanity. I had just become an unwilling member of the sandwich generation, and it pushed me into a deep … Continue reading →

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Stop SOPA

Posted on January 18, 2012

I pirated this from my friend at The Oatmeal. SOPA is bad. Go tell your senators. NOW.

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Grand Nationals recap

Posted on November 16, 2011

If you were following me on Twitter this past Saturday night, you may have noticed that I was tweeting about #grandnationals. Nonstop. Yeah. Sorry about that. If you’re not familiar with the event, the Bands of America Grand National Championships … Continue reading →

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Chronic

Posted on October 28, 2011

This was originally written as a comment on Erin Kotecki Vest’s blog post about being chronically afflicted with lupus. Go read it. I’ll wait. It’s eye-opening. Oh Erin…my heart aches. I was the primary caregiver to my mom for the … Continue reading →

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Review: Rubbermaid Reveal Mop

Posted on October 26, 2011

I’ve always really kinda hated mopping. Which meant that it hardly ever got done. I always seemed to be stuck with a nasty, germ-riddled  sponge mop. If it was the deluxe model, it had a scrubber pad on one side! … Continue reading →

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Things I Love Thursday: Glee on Sesame Street

Posted on September 22, 2011

Gee…I couldn’t come up with anything I love more than Sesame Street paying homage to Glee. For more great stuff, stop and see The Diaper Diaries for Things I Love Thursday.

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Wordless Wednesday: The Colburns Take a Vacation

Posted on September 21, 2011

My mom, Connie Colburn Bruzek, is fourth from the left. For more wordless photos, go to Wordless Wednesday.

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Kennywood rant

Posted on August 20, 2011

I was at Kennywood yesterday. Yesterday was they day that Kennywood closed at 5:45 pm due to the severe thunderstorm that went through (four people were killed in flash flooding). I have to say that I was NOT impressed with … Continue reading →

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The end of the end

Posted on April 21, 2011

On Tuesday morning, my sister and I put the girls on the school bus, then packed her suitcase and headed to Mom’s. It was time to say goodbye. She was headed to Florida for a business meeting. Duty calls, you … Continue reading →

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The beginning of the end

Posted on April 21, 2011

As I write this, it’s late. Mom would tell me to go to bed. My sister came in for a visit over the weekend. Mom was waiting for her. We had a great weekend. My sister spent all day Saturday … Continue reading →

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