blog days of summer

I apologize for my infrequent posts of late, but such seems to be the way of my own personal circle of bloggers, with a few notable exceptions, such as Yorkistrose at Poetry in the Everyday (http://yorkistrose.blogspot.com/) and of course, Lobster (http://midwestrocklobster.blogspot.com/).

However, I'd like to point readers to a few of the other wonderful blogs I've been dipping into. Not that they really have any relevancy to my writing, but they are just a heck of a lot of fun, or provocative, to read.

For a little bit of a laugh, or a tiny tear, check out Echos From Aral in Pezland at http://aralecho.blogspot.com/ . It's the only Quaker-Lefty-Lesbian-Martial Arts-Ice Hockey Goalie blog that features pictures of family members with pez heads superimposed on their faces. Last week, Pez-lady wrote a very moving tribute to her late brother and what his death has meant to her life since then.

Another spiritually connected blog I like is, as I mentioned before, Darrell Grizzle's Blog of the Grateful Bear (http://wildfaith.blogspot.com/). He's been quiet for much of the past month, but a recent post on "why we flee silence" was meaty enough in two quotes to keep me fed for days.

For those wanting to understand how blogging is affecting the so-called real world of journalism, there is CyberJournalist.net's J-Blog list of official and personal sites run by reporters and other journalists (http://www.cyberjournalist.net/cyberjournalists.php).

Or, if you just want a little fun, you can check out my writing friend Bill Konigsberg's Six Degrees of Separation. He's a novelist and sports writer who gained some fame several years ago by coming out as an openly gay sports-loving man while working as an assistant editor for ESPN.com. His six degrees page is just fun--and you have to love a man who can write about football well AND who went to high school with Diana Ross's daughter. He's at http://www.billkonigsberg.com/separation.html.

More later. Off to rearrange furniture! :)