Blog Day 2007

Did you know that today is Blog Day?

Accord­ing to the offi­cial Blog­Day site: Blog­Day was cre­ated with the belief that blog­gers should have one day ded­i­cated to get­ting to know other blog­gers from other coun­tries and areas of inter­est. On that day Blog­gers will rec­om­mend other blogs to their blog visitors.

With the goal in mind, on this day every blog­ger will post a rec­om­men­da­tion of 5 new blogs. This way, all blog read­ers will find them­selves leap­ing around and dis­cov­er­ing new, pre­vi­ously unknown blogs.

There are spe­cific guide­lines provided:

1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting.
2. Notify the 5 blog­gers that you are rec­om­mend­ing them as part of Blog­Day 2007.
3. Write a short descrip­tion of the Blogs and place a link to the rec­om­mended Blogs.
4. Post the Blog­Day Post on August 31st) and
5. Add the Blog­Day tag using this link:
   http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2007 and a link to the Blog­Day web site at http://www.blogday.org.

Here are the five blogs I dis­cov­ered today:

I heard about Blog­Day when I vis­ited Dawn’s site for the first time today. So her site is at the top of the list of blogs I’m spot­light­ing. She describes her­self as a “40 year old stay-at-home mother care­fully nav­i­gat­ing the waters of moth­er­hood.” She blogs about her adorable kids, par­tic­i­pates in Wednes­day Mind Hump, Throw­back Thurs­day and other memes. She recently received a “Nice Mat­ters Award” from Deb, Mom of Three Girls.

When I saw the name of the blog, I had to visit since “Run­ning on Empty” by Jack­son Browne is one of my all-time favorite songs and albums.

Matty is a 57-year-old grand­mother in Canada who has cre­ated an eclec­tic site where she blogs about a vari­ety of top­ics — some humor­ous, thought-provoking and mov­ing. She is cur­rently car­ing for her grand­son who has leukemia and is going to undergo a bone mar­row trans­plant. Her Thurs­day Thir­teen entry this week amazed me: Thir­teen Things I Like About the Children’s Hos­pi­tal. It grabbed my heart because our very best friends’ daugh­ter was diag­nosed with leukemia at the age of 7 months and they went through some unbe­liev­ably tough years. I used to call my friend while she was at the Children’s Hos­pi­tal with her daugh­ter and tell her lawyer jokes, sto­ries about cases I was han­dling, clients … she besieged me to call and talk to her about any­thing but can­cer, sick chil­dren and all the var­i­ous tests and treat­ment her daugh­ter was receiv­ing. Matty’s site is one you should def­i­nitely visit — leave her an encour­ag­ing word, too.

Yes, that’s the name of the blog: Escri­bi­tion. I checked the dic­tio­nary and its not a word, but “escribe” is and it means “to draw a cir­cle out­side of a tri­an­gle tan­gent to one side of the tri­an­gle and to the exten­sions of the other two sides.” Intrigu­ing. Miss­Meliss (Melissa) fea­tures a photo of her­self with shock­ing pink hair and a blog theme fea­tur­ing col­ored pen­cils. And the top­ics about which she writes are wide-ranging. Check it out.

Becca describes her­self as “an Amer­i­can woman, newly embark­ing on the sec­ond half of her cen­tury here on earth, reflects on Life in Gen­eral, and her own in par­tic­u­lar.” I sub­scribed to her RSS feed and will be spend­ing more time read­ing her arti­cles and poetry. She’s not only a tal­ented writer, she plays hand­bells. (I played them in church, too.)

The header graphic is deceiv­ing because the author and con­tent are not nearly as provoca­tive. And that’s not a bad thing at all! Mel is a third grader teacher mar­ried to her best friend, Dave. They have two kids and live in Delaware, a state I have never vis­ited. Mel writes about her expe­ri­ences as a teacher and her weight loss jour­ney. She was even the Loser of the Week at Tales from the Scales.

When you have a moment, it would be great if you paid each of them a visit! (Don’t for­get to men­tion that you were referred from Col­lo­quium!)

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