want to know what burns me up?

when I find a really interesting thing to blog about and then SOMEONE ELSE who will NOT remain nameless (ANDREW PETER HELSBY the SWINE) goes and beats me to blogging about it.

I was going to blog about this interesting book that I found out about (from a scrapper's blog that I read) called No one cares what you had for lunch by Margaret Mason

She's written in a very readable style and broken the book up into three sections -- 15 minutes, 30 minutes and 1 hr +.... so that if you only have 15 minutes to sit and blog you can take one of the ideas from that first section and run with it, or if you have 30 mins etc. She has really gotten me to think about why I am posting... and even more so about *what* I am actually posting... In the last section of the book she's quite good about encouraging the inner writer in all of us to be stretched and to be intentional in what we write -- otherwise the internet is going to be (and perhaps is already?) flooded with things that aren't important... or even entertaining.

I started my blog so that friends and family could keep an eye out and see what I've been up to and what's going on in my life -- but as you will notice... there have been large gaps in my posts -- and some of that is because this blog has become a bit more than just a newsy update. I have wanted it to be something deeper -- more of a journal of what I'm feeling etc. -- but much of the things that have been happening in the gaps are too personal to post on here... those things belong in a journal where they are mine alone.

That is one thing that she didn't really address in the book -- the privacy issue -- one of the blogs that she points you to (she gives several examples throughout the book) is a blog about sharing yourself completely, awkward warts and all. I could never do that. She never touched upon how people feel secret power to be cruel and make comments they would never in a million years have said aloud to another person -- all because they are behind the shield of a monitor, possibly thousands of miles away.

So for now I will continue to plod on -- and if/when you see gaps -- email me -- sometimes I need to be asked in order to share what kinds of things are going on in my heart.

Posted by kristen at January 27, 2007 2:47 PM