Comments on: subject run, subject redux, subject at rest

By: lisa b

lisa b — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:46:22 +0000

I love your description of the market flattening out. I;ve noticed it in most everyone I read but that is a fairly small group, half of whom have commented above me here.
I think the idea that someone else has or can say it better is one of the reasons I have stopped writing. Oh also the fear that someone found me. I love that you and Kyla can write as though your doctor/friends are not reading but I never could.

By: Beck

Beck — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:50:35 +0000

Ooh, so timely.
I’ve kind of run out of things to say – anything I’ve ever wanted to say about myself I’ve said, I don’t want to reveal TOO much about my kids and my daily life isn’t chock full of revelatory experience. I still want to write, so right now I’m floudering a bit.

I do think that there are certain patterns to mothering – once you’re beyond having babies and the stress and fear and joy of that, a lot of writing about motherhood can become sort of… oh, I don’t know. Similar. Pregnancy is about us and parenting is about them and that changes the nature of what we can responsibly write, I think.

When I started blogging three years ago, many bloggers were lamenting the death of the blogosphere. I think that it goes through cycles, and that a blog has a lifespan that’s maybe not as long as we’d hoped.

My mother has BEGGED me never to get pregnant again. our poor moms.

By: Georgia

Georgia — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:50:54 +0000

My blog is still exactly what I started it for; a kind of monologue cum photo album that the kids might enjoy when older and a way for the OS family to stay in touch.
I flirted with aspirations of writing insightful, philosophical posts for awhile, but in the end I was lucky to get my brain working long enough to read a few cases for Uni, let alone expand it to thinking about things other than law or motherhood. I am still struggling with keeping in touch with the outside world enough to hold a decent conversation, and am constantly coming up with ideas to get myself in the know, then not having the time or inclination to follow through.
Hence my other ‘thinking’ blog, which has only a small handful of posts!

By: jen

jen — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:29:01 +0000

i really liked this Bon. Understood it.

my way of describing is way too long for this section. and also way to short.

By: edj

edj — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:03:26 +0000

What a great post. You so perfectly captured so much.

My blog persona is real but not complete. There are parts I hide; certain people I know who read whom I don’t want to know everything, and from a sense of privacy too. (And, frankly, my location stops me from blogging certain things.) My blog will never be huge, but it’s a fun connection for me to the world, and that’s enough for me. I do sense the shift though, and I wonder how long the blogging world, as we know it, will last.

By: Painted Maypole

Painted Maypole — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:02:18 +0000

this was great. i’ve been wrestling with the “selves” i have in many different parts of my life, and how they are all colliding on facebook. This post has me thinking more about my blogging self

(and dude, I NEVER own up to having a blog to new friends. hell, barely to old friends!)

By: Purva Brown

Purva Brown — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:29:17 +0000

“written me could negotiate motherhood with all its fierce love and exhaustion and bewilderment and grief and mundanity in a way that verbal me still trips over, feeling exposed and guilty if i articulate the ambivalence of parenting aloud.”

Beautiful. So true and so well written. Gave me gooseflesh.

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:32:21 +0000

I started my blog to write about things I had told people out loud and then discovered that online, I become a different person. In real life, I am terrified of being judged and never tell anyone the kind of personal things I write about.

But online, I am a SUPERHERO. I am Aurelia! Writer of wrongs! Wild Woman who challenges the status quo!

In real life, I am too terrified to be the real me, because I think that everyone will hate that me.

But online, I can be the real me, the real deep down secret wants to be a superhero me.

That said, in real life only my husband knows about my blog, and he never reads. I now suspect that some political people know who I am and are unimpressed and don’t like what I write. Mostly because I am no longer kissing their butts in public. But also because I have admitted to mental illness and other assorted human frailties. In the political world, that is not okay.

I guess we’ll see, because sooner or later, someone will out me.

By: Misty

Misty — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:16:37 +0000

My hackles go up and lips curl when discussions of how best to raise children comes up and mothers (and non mothers alike) try to impose perfection where none exists.
To avoid biting someone, I steer clear of these people, grab a beer and talk about hockey with the guys.

By: allysha

allysha — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:56:59 +0000

I blog for myself. I’ve pared down the blogs I frequent. It’s a comfortable number. I read those who feel honest to me. Sometimes I feel like I’d like to put more of “me” into my blog, a me that is more refined and proof-read and thoughtful, but I don’t have the energy. So I don’t worry about it. The me that’s there is the tired mom of four looking for, and usually finding, some humor and some grace. Not necessarily in my own stuff, but in a few others.