I've been gone! All week! To BlogHer 2012! Here are my thoughts as they fly through my head.

• So honored and proud to work for BlogHer. The conference just gets more amazing every year in terms of programming, which is my favorite part.
• Very excited this year there were at least as many women of color speaking as white women, maybe more -- Polly didn't have the final numbers. This is hugely important, and might perhaps be the biggest win of the conference for many reasons.
• Martha Stewart, Katie Couric, Soledad O'Brien, Christy Turlington Burns and Malaak Compton-Rock all live in person.
• The sitting president of the United States addressed BlogHer directly on live video. I'm pretty sure I never thought that would happen in my life, and it made me feel very heard and respected. Thank you, Mr. President.
• I thought I would not like the fashion show as I am not a fashionista, but it was amazing in the way the first community keynote that became Voices of the Year was amazing -- I just saw what it was supposed to be and loved it.
• The Voices of the Year community keynote continues to impress me and inspire me to try harder with my writing. 
• I had so much fun laughing with so many friends and meeting new people and putting faces with email addresses. There is truly no replacement for meeting people in person, and I'm so glad when I'm able to do it.
• I got to share my hotel room and my experience with my awesome sister despite her having the worst travel experience I have ever seen go down in my entire life -- six-hour delay coming out and cancelled flight going back. Boo, United! 

I'm back at the office today and working frantically on some exciting things for BlogHer, so this has to be short today. More soon!