tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668392343139286753.post5464008507701209903..comments2024-03-29T09:10:12.369-04:00Comments on Them's My Sentiments: On Blogging (1)MARY Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178370815712313585noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668392343139286753.post-18457471137112356672007-03-13T18:43:00.000-04:002007-03-13T18:43:00.000-04:00Well, welcome to Bloggy Land. You're certainly of...Well, welcome to Bloggy Land. You're certainly off to a great start. It's both comforting and a bit sad to hear that feeling isolated as a mom is not a new issue. <BR/><BR/>I moved to a new part of the state about a year and a half ago and have no family or close friends near by. I work full time outside the home and have therefore made a few mom friends through work, but it is awfully hard to have the kind of discussions we have online on a regular basis. The "Mommy blog" community has been such a wonderful outlet. I'm glad you've discovered it as well.Lawyer Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819273107327846943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668392343139286753.post-29600818693932507662007-03-12T23:21:00.000-04:002007-03-12T23:21:00.000-04:00I think I love you.I am so glad someone nudged you...I think I love you.<BR/><BR/>I am so glad someone nudged you into starting a blog. And I love what you said about wishing you had had a "mommy blog" world when your kids were small. It throws me when people dive into blogs (any of them, any subject) just rarin' to pick each other apart. I love that you can come and go as you please...find the folks who make sense and keep your spirits up and make you feel so much more MOORED and sane in this wild world.<BR/><BR/>And thank you for your kind words over at b'eaw. So happy to have made your acquaintance, lady.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668392343139286753.post-87234285942200978252007-03-12T21:30:00.000-04:002007-03-12T21:30:00.000-04:00Thanks for the kind words.I see a common thread he...Thanks for the kind words.<BR/>I see a common thread here of woman far from their former support network and looking for a conversation. There's also the 'stranger on the train' thing -- would we be going as deep with someone we know in nonblog life? <BR/><BR/>As a quick aside, there are a lot of us who are listing L.M. Montgomery's writing as favourites and the 'kindred spirit' concept is used as a tag. Maybe that's not an aside, hmm?MARY Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178370815712313585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668392343139286753.post-41218043940782288162007-03-12T20:57:00.000-04:002007-03-12T20:57:00.000-04:00I've been wondering lately to what extent the momm...I've been wondering lately to what extent the mommy blogsplosion is the result of pressures unique to this era: women having children comparatively late in life (and having to work out what that means to their identity), women feeling isolated from family support, women faced with a flood of contradictory and entirely unhelpful parenting advice books...<BR/><BR/>Mostly, though, I think that blogging allows for a kind of conversation about motherhood that a certain number of women would have jumped at the chance to participate in at any time (a sense that your post confirms). There's a limit to how deep you can go at a coffee-date or a play-date - blogging allows for a social exploration of ideas that is more profound than what we can achieve in casual conversation.Beahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15957626443087438904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668392343139286753.post-84005320005728130442007-03-12T15:41:00.000-04:002007-03-12T15:41:00.000-04:00I love your writing! First week of blogging and y...I love your writing! First week of blogging and you are a pro. Keep up the excellent work.Beccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11748356409898753600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5668392343139286753.post-2676607155505263332007-03-12T15:29:00.000-04:002007-03-12T15:29:00.000-04:00And thank you, Mary for clicking on that Publish B...And thank you, Mary for clicking on that Publish Button. This was wonderful. You know, my first son was born five years ago and he was very challenging (colic, 24/7) It threw me for a loop. As far as I knew there was not a "mommy" community out there to talk with even just those short years ago. I am far from home (my family lives in England) and not many of my friends had children. I'd have loved this community then.<BR/><BR/>This is also one reason why this whole thing boggles me--it's so new and it's so *enormous.*<BR/><BR/>Thank you for sharing your insights--it explains so eloquently what we are feeling about the connectivity so many of experience here. If you've not read Mad Hatter's two posts, you should--I see a lot of shared sentiments:<BR/>http://madhattermommy.blogspot.com/2007/03/365.html<BR/><BR/>http://madhattermommy.blogspot.com/2007/03/mads-big-bloggy-think-fest-part-2.html<BR/><BR/>I also began the whole blogging business when I realized I was hijacking way too many people's comments sections. Becoming a writer/blogger emerged from that engagement, I realize, and not just because I wanted to "put my writing out there." Actually, I wanted to be part of the conversation also (and I only realize this now, as I remember).<BR/><BR/>I like this phrase: "The sort of free-wheeling, interleaved discussion spiked with laughter that I remember from my undergraduate days and a few other happy intervals where I was with a group of people who both enjoyed and were capable of that sort of conversation."<BR/><BR/>So many of us are recapturing or discovering that right now, and I love this characterization of what we are doing.gingajoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01356643079413822527noreply@blogger.com