Much Ado About Blogging

NaBloPoMo  kicks off next week, and just in the nick of time Maggie's  book arrives! WooHoo! God I hope that check clears.

If you don't have this book, you better get Santa on it quick before there all gone. Maggie Mason is brilliant in her descriptive of everyday do-ables, making the reader (you) feel as if she, and she alone, cared what you had for lunch today...

I was a hard sell, a hold out, while the rest of the blogging world romanced Ms. Masons prose. Even sideways -ing a time or two. My ego got the best of me, for I surely needed no silly book to help me come up with idea for posts! (Said the woman who has her comments turned off)

What I'm learning out here, is that big egos don't survive or succeed. For months all I did was write posts and read three blogs, rarely even attemping to find new ones I liked. I was stuck in a zone, neither comfortable nor 'un'...simply stuck. Maggie's book does one very important thing. It nudges you out of your zone.

Throughout her book, just like Mighty Girl , Maggie pays respect where respect is due. "Linking" to other blogs in hard copy. Maggie is polite, funny and genuine, as she climbs...taking time to reach a hand out and say "Welcome."

My amends are from the heart, as I stroll down my own memory lane with Ms. Mason as my guide.

Very nice work Maggie!

Is  it me, or do I look like Steven Tyler?

OMG I do look like Steven Tyler, and before he got Sober too.

This is bad.