I'm with you. Intimacy, is not a bad thing. The friends I'd made from my blog, you included, are incredibly special to me. In some ways I've shared much more intimate thoughts with them than I have with my own family - or certainly with casual friends. While I may fight to remain stoic "in person," with my father's death for instance, I'm a blubbering emotional heart-on-my-sleeve kinda gal with my blog. Tell it like it is. Most of us can and do write things we don't or can't speak. It's "real." Blogging that is. Blogging is real life, from the heart. The real deal. I'm reading a memoir now that started as a blog. Julie and Julia about a woman who spent a year cooking every recipe in Julie Child's the Art of French Cooking. It all started as a blog in 1997 when hardly anyone knew what a blog was. When I don't have time to read an entire memoir I can surely cut out a few minutes of my day to read an entry.

Oh, btw, news here? In this area? Boring. I guess that could be good right?
Terri | 11.04.05 - 1:07 pm | #

I read your blog because you are a happily married man who is proud of his wonderful children- rare-
also
your photography is good and your writing skills excell .
T | Homepage | 11.04.05 - 2:28 pm | #

Terri - Sounds like paradise to me. Careful what you wish for though. News happens when you least like it to happen.

I wish the whole world would kill less and blog more.

T - . . .and smart. Don't forget smart (woo, and humble), but thanks T. If I never said it, I do appreciate you keeping me on my toes.
beFrank | Homepage | 11.04.05 - 2:53 pm | #

WRAL over here on the east coast also did a story about reading blogs at work. One woman at the local newspaper got fired for writing on her blog during work. That's why I write on a note pad at work and type it in later at home. "becareful"

The Colonel
Kenneth Corn | Homepage | 11.04.05 - 5:13 pm | #

It's funny, but I think I became a better worker when I started blogging; with people like you to motivate me, makes for a happier me and a happier me = better worker.

I missed you, tell dellis I said "HI". Heading back to the Big Easy on the 19th, I am a little nervous, but excited too!!
TW | Homepage | 11.06.05 - 5:11 pm | #

Makes sense to me.
Jack | Homepage | 11.08.05 - 11:16 pm | #

Productivity is highly overrated. If we could all be a bit less productive, employers would have to hire more people to fill job slots.

Besides, all that ambition and speed make me sleepy.
alice, uptown | Homepage | 11.09.05 - 1:24 pm | #