Love it!

mdance4 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:24:35 -0500

Thanks for including me in this post. The network of 20-something bloggers I have become a part of since starting my blog a year ago has become so important to me. It's great to talk to women every day that understand exactly what you're going through.

And like I said in my post, I've made some amazing friends too!

It was so fun to focus on 20-something blogs!

Liz Rizzo — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:43:44 -0500

It's really interesting to click through to a bunch of blogs by one age range, and to see the diversity of experience. I may start various threads in the forums for age-specific shout outs so I can do this again with other ranges.

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess and On The Lot.

I'm pretty new to blogging

Michelle and the City — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:52:35 -0500

I'm pretty new to blogging and it was great to find so many interesting blogs to read from other people my age. We're all going thru the quarter-life crisis together! :-)

michelle-and-the-city.blogspot.com

Great ones!

lfar — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:58:11 -0500

Good list! The Molly/Clink love-cross-posting was a great once, since I read both blogs. I'll read Ashley too but I'll add Little White Liar! Thanks

http://ilfar.ca/

You're absolutely right Liz - it's on our list

Lisa Stone — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:34:11 -0500

- to fix asap. Thank you!

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Problem with my block quotes here...

Liz Rizzo — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:58:00 -0500

Each pull quote continues outside the pull quote, making it look like my writing. But when I look at the html, it looks right.

I'm going to jump in and use quotation marks just to be clear.

Oy.

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess and On The Lot.

20-Something BlogHers on Sex & Relationships

Liz Rizzo — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:12:20 -0500

I spied this great BlogHer thread started by Ashley of the light(er) side of growing up, "20-something Bloggers," and I thought I'd crash around the blogs listed and see if I'd find some great sex & relationships posts by 20-somethings.

What, are you kidding? Of course I did!

My favorite is take me to the river, drop me in the water by PiousCoy.

"I was feeling pretty rotten about some aspects of myself, when I lowered my toes into the cool concrete pool. The water circled my feet and I emerged them further, my calves causing quiet ripples to roll across the water. A calm came over me as I dropped my freckled legs in. My personality was suddenly exalted, no longer heavy and all the woes drained from my mind, down my body, and into 5 feet of blue, blue water. The water let me drain.

The healing element of water."

She lists her "cleansing memories of water," and they are beautiful.

Next, I found a pair of posts by a couple of bloggers who forged their friendship over the internet.

Clink from Such Great Heights says There's Something About Molly:

"However, over time, Molly has become so much more than the just photo of multi-colored shoes. She has become a friend. Molly knows what I really look like and that is huge for me, Little Miss Anonymity. She knows M’s first and last name and she knows my first and last name and she knows what my friends look like and she knows where I work and she knows that my sister told me to lose weight before I even posted it on the blog.

She’s crossed the invisible line I drew for myself when I started this blog business. I was intent on keeping everyone out, intent on keeping my readers at an arm’s length because I didn’t want anything or anyone to compromise my anonymity."

And meanwhile...

Molly from These Little Moments calls them Thelma and Louise:

"If I was single again, I think I would try online dating. Filling out a profile of likes and dislikes, finding that odd person that loves eating icing out of the container with a spoon just as much as you do? Sounds good to me.

I’ve always thought that there should be an online matching system for friendship. Much like online dating, you could find a friend who hates her thighs, loves bad TV and will reassure you that you’re hot even after you’ve eaten another burrito.

Well, I found her."

Speaking of friendship, Amanda Rose from Little White Liar has a great tale about reconnecting with her best friend after moving to Sydney, Australia. It's called, The plot (and the accent) thicken.

"The first night that I was here, her accent slipped backward. After living on-and-off for four years in the States, New York has a way of slipping into the mouth. The longer we we together, the more severe it became. Her friends noticed. Boys noticed. They said, "Where are you guys from?" She answered, "We're both from New York." She laughs, tosses her beautiful blonde head, and turns right back into the New York spotlight she had abandoned."

A quickie to bring us back to the romance: Carolyn from Pink Ukulele declares, We are, like, so married right now! And I love her wedding pics.

And finally, Cecile from Cecile Weekly essays, This could both be a hospital or heaven:

"Not really conscious of doing so I open my eyes. A ray of white light forms a neat line, seemingly cutting my surroundings in two, illuminating the space around me. I realize I am awake and slowly become aware of my feelings. Both pain and immense happiness take hold of my body. Like a giant metronome that has possessed my body the focus constantly switches between the pain and the happiness, pain, happiness, pain, happiness…

Considering my senses this could both be a hospital or heaven."

Reading 20-something BlogHers? Heaven. So if you're a 20-something, and you've got a sex & relationships post you like, please link it up in the comments!

Contributing editor Liz Rizzo also blogs at Everyday Goddess and On The Lot.