Do you read other blogs? I mean, of people you don't know.
I do. I lurk in the shadows, rarely commenting, since they don't know me, and if I comment, they can track down MY blog. It's a little hypocritical, I know. But hey - maybe someone's doing that here too, and I don't mind lurkers.
:)
It's interesting, reading about real people and their regular (or irregular) lives.
One guy is struggling with the death of his mother a number of months ago. He's finding it very, very difficult to deal with. His last post says he finally decided to go to his priest to see if it would be helpful, because he's really losing his faith. That's tough.
One woman has a wonderfully happy family and home, except it's all been turned upside down recently, because condo developers are buying everything around their little house, and they either have to sell low, or be surrounded by condos. How's that for a shock?!
One guy works hard to make it in life, struggling with family, addictions, medications, etc. Some days are good, some days are bad.
And there's one blog where a guy turns wire into hilarious works of art. Cracks me up!
Most of these I found through the "Blogs of Note" list. But here's the kicker - apparently Blogger doesn't notify you when it gives your blog all that publicity. Just suddenly a thousand or more people show up on your blog, and as one writer put it - "it felt like a busload of strangers was in the bathroom with me, handing me novelty toilet paper and commenting on my technique."
Which is a very funny sentence!
I'm not sure how I would feel about a thousand visitors, all of a sudden.
But so far, it appears that there's no danger of that!
