Required Reading

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One point I'd like to add to SideCar's post, and then we can put this whole blogging-as-trivial-babble thing to bed.

Blogging has been a little like speed dating for me. I know what Captain does first thing in the morning, and what weapon he might choose to put me out of my misery with if I cry outside his window after midnight. I share in Blogagaard's most embarrassing/thrilling Tobias Wolff moments. I walk along with Voix on her journey, painful and joyful and utterly naked right there on the screen. People I have never met respond to me, ME, with insightful messages of encouragement when I threaten to never write again. Those same strangers also freely share self-deprecating information on who their favorite Duran Duran member is- now that's naked! I may not know what they all do for a living, or even what they look like sometimes, but I know more important things than that. And to me, that seems the opposite of shallow babbling.