But when her friends' children stumbled, experienced addictions and tangled with the law, they did not call her and say, Hey, my kids are in trouble too -- let's talk and share.
"We are trying to give people a stumble experience through syndicating links," he explains.
It's a great idea for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it could help potential buyers get over one of Amazon's biggest stumbling blocks: experiencing the product.
Similarly, when athletes stumble or experience unfortunate injuries, our perceived connection to their physical actions triggers an emotional response.
Occasionally, we will stumble upon experiences which are more sinister and threatening: the times our physical, emotional, and spiritual selves feel like they are in danger.
But how effective a Silicon Valley approach to political change can be is a question — and Mr. Hoffman has experienced stumbling blocks before.
Our democratic experience is stumbling so far.
The Ted Bundy Project was provoked by Wohead's experience of stumbling across Bundy's confession tapes online and finding himself compulsively listening for the "juicy stuff".
In this solo, an American premiere, Ms. Childs plays an anonymous person possessed equally by anguished memories of a failed love and by questions about a man fallen in the street and the experience of stumbling over him.
