Nostalgia, Reviews and a Little bit of This and That.

Generally I am not one to really look back and mourn the old days. But lately I have a little bit.

This is not a whine about lost friendships, old stories, or missing family. Bloggers, it is you I miss. I miss the old blogs when people sat around and just, ya know, wrote. Now when you open a person's blog you will most certainly find a few messy sentences put together with a ton of pictures to support the heavy load of the blog. While ,granted, some blogs, like fashion blogs, rely on a picture to help you grab an idea, please put a little effort into the actual written part. Give me something more than a link to a store where I can get the item shown, or its knock-off sister.

Please, please do not get me wrong. I enjoy pictures. I really do, but just every once in a while I would love to sit down with my coffee and read. After all, this is an internet journel (so i supose you can say I am a snoop), but I like to sit down and read a little bit just to feel like I learn something about you.

I love an author like Amy from lifeinslowmotion. She hold nothing back and it is wonderful. To read about her pregnancy and raising her young daughter makes you feel like you are apart of her life. Beyond her children she blogs about her beliefs, her likes and dislikes and her little 'farm'. I can honestly say, without ever having met this woman or ever having the chance to meet her in the future, that I feel as if I know her. She is candid and smart. I enjoy seeing what I will learn from her any given week. To date I have learned the good and bad of pregnancies, how to sprout a small crop of my own veggies, how to raise chickens, and the list goes on.

I also enjoy a more recently found blogger, Allie from HyperboleandaHalf .She is without a doubt the funniest blogger I have stumbled across. Her witty banter and hilarious pictures leave me craving for more. She is an example of someone who can equal out the ratio of picture vs. storyline. Regardless if all her wild tales are true or false, she is someone who knows how to hold an audiences attention. I know on a bad day a story my Allie will leave me with a little smile on my face!

I supose I really have no say in the world of bloggery because, really, who am I? I don't have any fans, and chances are I don't have any readers. Honestly that doesn't bother me. In a world where we often have to censor our thoughts so as not to upset someone, here we can all be our real selves.But that in itself is a whole other story!

I don't claim to be a blog genius. I love run-on sentences, bad grammar and the occasional nonsensical post. On the off chance one of the two bloggers I mentioned actually reads this: My intention was not to make you feel uncomfortable as a blogger. I really just wanted to state that I enjoyed your blogs.That is all. No stalker tendancies, scouts honor. *grin*