Blogs I Love
There are many blogs I love and read every day they post. Cee, Mark, Red, Marilyn, Calen, Relax, Geek, Zombie, Lydia, Mom, Jane, Anton, Barbwit, Roger, Okcforgottenman, John, Leland, A. Swiss, Chic and a dozen others that have slipped my memory right now–you know who you are. Many I have reblogged articles or poems from, and I rave about them daily, so those are not the blogs I’m going to mention today. Rather, I’d like to mention a blog i just discovered.
“Transcribing Memory” is a relatively new blog. This URL http://transcribingmemory.com/2015/12/14/the-many-twitches-of-fate-that-bring-us-here/ is from today’s entry, but I would suggest going back to the beginning. There are just a few entries. The theme of the blog is a lifetime of journals of a 96-year-old woman, the mother-in-law of the blogger. Together, they are going through the journals that seem to begin in her teenage years. Babu, the grandmother, comments on them, as does the blogger, who does not give her name. The original statements in the journal, the grandmother’s reactions as she reads them and the blogger’s own comments are so tender and insightful. You see the blogger getting closer to and recognizing new connections with her grandmother-in-law, who has lived in the house of the blogger and her husband for their entire marriage. Who hasn’t wanted to peek into someone else’s diary? This is your chance.
The prompt today asks us to list three blogs we’ve read this week that we have loved and to say why. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/press-it/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
My favorite blogs are not always “the best” … but they are the ones that make me feel at home, part of the life of the people who write it. That’s really special, like a daily visit to a friend. Almost as good as being there 🙂
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Yes and you are like that. Like an old friend, and your blog is always good as well.
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I will enjoy reading that new blog, Judy. How I wish I had sat down with my father and mother and just talked to them about them. Too late now. Sigh.
P.S. Thank you for liking me. It’s mutual.
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An excellent recommendation – thanks for sharing the details.
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An excellent choice! I look forward to visiting the blog soon.
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Hey! That’s me! Thanks for your words. I began the blog simply because I’m obsessed with her – love her so much! – and obsessed with writing and the project began. I am getting so much more out of it then I ever thought I would!
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I can imagine. How long have you been married? I think it is a rare person who would accept a beau who carries along a grannie! Good for you and lucky for her and you. Are the journals in your header picture really her journals? Intriguing.
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I’ve so loved reading folks’ responses to this prompt, and I’m sad that I seem to be constantly following so many comments on the other 68 I follow that I have no time to discover new ones. But I’m going to have to check this one out!
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I know what you mean. I do try to read the prompt page which is a good way to meet new writers, but zigzag back and forth between it and the reader. Lately it’s been so crazy that I don’t have as much time to read, but you are right. Part of it is that I add new blogs to follow and the list gets longer and longer. That is why it is increasingly important to have good distinctive titles and interesting openings.
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