Writing in the Corner

Ever since I put an RSS feed on my iGoogle page, I rarely click visit the sites of the blogs I read. I just “read with the feed.” The upside is greater speed and efficiency. The downside is that I rarely comment on people’s blogs any more.

Here are the blogs I read every new post on:

• Behind the Infamous Veil - BIV’s personal blog is on hiatus for safety reasons.
• Brain Barf - Keri is an ex-mo friend in Eastern Washington whose rare posts read like a brilliant stream of consciousness riff using words instead of a guitar.
• Joe in and Around Las Vegas - Vegas Joe is a programmer, gardener, and handy fellow who takes lots of pictures and writes really interesting stuff about parts of Vegas tourists don’t see.
• Joy in the Journey - Hope is a Fringe-y friend whose journal/blog recounts her day-to-day life. Best part is her “happy today for” daily comment.
• Michael Homan - Michael is on the faculty at Xavier. Our youngest children were in the same pre-school for a year. Michael’s house was destroyed by Katrina, and he is very active and engaged in rebuilding New Orleans right along with his own life. I stumbled on his blog by accident, and he doesn’t know me from Adam.
• Open Vein - Caroline is an ex-mo friend and wonderful writer who has excellent insights into feminism. She doesn’t write much, either.
• PsyRel - Michael Nielsen’s posts and announcements about the study of the psychology of religion, which subject he studies and teaches at Georgia Southern University.
• Puddle of Nothing - Randy’s blog. Randy is my very dear friend. He blogs about movies, television, dreams, and his two sons, A and T.
• Stephen M (Ethesis) - Stephen is a Mormon who blogs with perception, gratitude and candor about life after grief.
• the adventures of - very few posts from a lovely red-head ex-Mormon woman friend graduating from a big school in the desert very soon.
• trail seeker - Alan is a farmer who lives in the PNW and loves to hike. He stopped writing ages ago, but I can always hope!
• Wry catcher - brilliant feminist ex-mo buddy
• Gardner family - fun musical friends here in town

In addition to these “people blogs,” I also have in a feed: Pound (Wendy McClure’s blog), I Blame the Patriarchy (radical feminism at it’s cutting-through-the-crap best) and NO Notes, a New Orleans/Saint James Infirmary Blues blog by Rob Walker, who wrote the amazing little book Letters from New Orleans. If you don’t own it, you should buy it.

So, if you are writing posts, but wonder why I don’t say anything, it’s not because I’m not reading, or because you aren’t interesting. It’s because I’m reading you efficiently. Furthermore, I’ve discovered that I really needn’t comment on everything, and the world still spins just fine without my editorializing.

I am thinking of adding a blogroll. If you want to be on it, just let me know.