BlogHer - Spring Blog Fever, Or: To Blog Or Not To Blog, That Is The Question. - Comments

Spring Fever pretty much sums it up.

Mom101 — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:44:40 -0500

Agree completely and have noticed it as well. Spring is when I watch less tv, go to the gym less (as in less than never), spend less time on the mac. It's just a time for...well, living.

But what I think it comes down to is who you write for--yourself or an audience. If you're writing to write, then the diminishing audience shouldn't matter. When I find myself spending energy on my sitemeter, I think to myself, "does Maureen Dowd do this? Does she worry that NYT circulation is less on Tuesdays than Thursdays?" Probably not.

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maybe feeling lonely is part of it

Susanne Fritz — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:04:59 -0500

We wouldn't exactly had the need to blabber to the world about our lifes, if we didn't feel a little lonely, or do we?

I feel a little discouraged too. Maybe because I've started a "series" about spring dieting. The one subject I never wanted to put on my blog.

I look at my stats, feel discouraged and think "Give it a little more time".

And Mary Tsao is right, every time you comment, somebody notices you. And Busy Mom is right too.

I hope, Anne is going to stop the self destruct sequence.

A little ad for myself: Diapers and Music or in German Windeln und Musik

I'd serve champagne to returning visitors, alas it's not possible.

Here you go, debra!

kathiwilliams — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:41:00 -0500

I've read quite a few comments under your fun green tennies already, because I'm a (latent) collager, too. Thanks for asking. Here at 4,000 ft, gardening is a very hopefuly adventure. We built a greenhouse to start things, but nothing can go in the ground before June! Plus with all the wildlife, we have to coax everything in "the plant jail" which you are able to see in the background, if you scroll down my silly blog until you see a cat on a hottub cover! I have success with the "square foot gardening book"--forget the author, or exact title, but I just browsed a second edition in paperback in a bookstore.

Re blogging, the first one listed below is my silly blog (sisterbernard)and the other is supposedly more serious, named after my new consulting company, but I'm definitely in 'beta beta' version as to my "voice". Let's see if I can make this look right:

My Sister Was A St Bernard

ieresourcenetwork

(Hmmm...I think you'll get there by clicking above. I've been finding folks most easily by clicking on their names, going to complete profiles, and then selecting the blog(s).)

Cheers,
~Kathi
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The Blah Schmas

Stephanie A. — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:11:54 -0500

Lately I feel completely off-topic with my posts. I'll type something up and then realize, "Uh, why would anyone care what I think about that?" and delete it all. I definitely have a case of the blah schmas in blogland right now.

Stephanie A.

Oh touche, Busy Mom,

sweetney — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:16:06 -0500

Oh touche, Busy Mom, touche.

Its when I start thinking that even the things I have to say about television programs aren't worthy of posting that I KNOW I'm in deep trouble.

Because, I mean, if talking about TV isn't valid discourse, well, stop the world, I want to get off.

xo trace
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Blog On

paper napkin — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:04:03 -0500

Every time I think about quitting my blog I think, "I have nothing to say, may as well chuck it." Then I think, "Hey wait a minute, I've never had anything to say, that's part of the appeal." So it goes.
Sheryl

Dudes, DAYTONA! WOOHOOOOO!

sweetney — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:04:03 -0500

Dudes, DAYTONA! WOOHOOOOO! Heh.

I'm all for drunken mommyblogging... and then sleeping in the next day without being woken up at 7am by a tiny voice whining "Mommy? I'm huuunnngry!"

Only 98 days until BlogHer, my friends.

Hang In There, Kitten(s),
xo trace
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Spring Break?

manicmom — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:15:14 -0500

Hey, I'm all for Spring Break. Except for no Girls Gone Wild video's. Not again............

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Spring Break for Bloggers!

Mary Tsao — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:48:02 -0500

Maybe that's what we need...

Cause I'm all for tequila shots and beers on the beach in exchange for giving up blogging for two weeks.

Who's with me?

Mary
BlogHer Contributing Editor, Mommy & Family
Mom Writes

hello kathi!

debra roby — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:06:04 -0500

Can I ask for the link to your blog?? I'd love to read it (atleast a few times). Gardening? I've been doing some of that...

Debra
A Stitch In Time
Simple Still Life

It's not just you!

debra roby — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:01:35 -0500

And it's not just mommybloggers!

However, Little Bird has come back after saying she might not... so I'm hoping that more bloggers take their spring tonic and get back to us.

Debra
A Stitch In Time
Simple Still Life

That's funny

manicmom — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:59:20 -0500

because so have I. I wish I had started a year ago when I was pregnant and bedrest. But now I'm entrenched and really don't see leaving any time soon.

Muhcas gracias, Mary!

kathiwilliams — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:38:45 -0500

I feel cyber-embarassed for what may have been seen as whining in that post. Elisa Camahort has given me some kind suggestions, and another gal, so I have been asking. (In spurts between an awful flu virus and other deadlines.) Should I apologize for a bad mood spurt?

I am a really associative thinker (ENFP) who viscerably feels the FLOW of these BlogHer "conversations." Since my profession is in communication, maybe I "see/feel/hear" certain nuances that aren't even there, or which might be colored by my own pananoia! Yet I've taught for decades to exhort my community college students to think critically, have fun, and get involved with their growth. So this is my new fun learning curve tool to facilitate my online life.

Thanks for the idea to specifically include one's links--I thought we all just went to the hotlink under our names and proceed from that profile page to his/her website. That works for me & felt easier, so I misassumed others did the same. Good point for newbies to know.

Soon I'll master some tech. difficulties I'm having now and both sites will have new pix n' stuff.
T'anks again, ~Kathi
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~Kathi
i.e. An Intercultural Educational
Resource Network

Lemme Try Again--that was a downer!

kathiwilliams — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:24:47 -0500

Esteemed Colleagues:

Maybe (I)we just have to keep the daffodils in balance, chosing what nourishes us and gently adding time and best efforts as we're prompted....this is pioneering territory after all, sisters...good to be here; peace to each of our spring hearts....

Better now, ;) ~Kathi
(i.e. An Intercultural Educational
Resource Network)

Ironically enough...

mothergoosemouse — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:05:03 -0500

I've recently decided to throw myself full force into this "hobby". I bought a web design book, I'm researching hosting services, and I've got two areas of interest to investigate - momsrising.org and wiredsafety.org.

But I have noticed less frequent updates on others' blogs and fewer comments than usual on my own blog. Maybe it's the beautiful weather, or maybe it's something else. But my laptop and I will be out on the deck, enjoying the beautiful weather together, while the kids play in the yard. And I will take this opportunity to expand my blogging horizons.

Spring Blog Fever, Or: To Blog Or Not To Blog, That Is The Question.

sweetney — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:01:47 -0500

Contributing Editor Tracey Gaughran-Perez also blogs at sweetney.com

Is it just me, or has the greater mommyblogosphere been feeling a little, well, off lately? In the past few weeks I've noticed great lulls in blogging for some, outright ditching of blogs altogether for others. It seems Spring indeed is, as the cliche goes, a time of rebirth (or, in the matter of blogging, a time of reconsideration).

Jody of Raising WEG puts it thusly:

I think a lot of people get spring blog fever. This seems to be a time when people reconsider the whole blog enterprise. I base that on two entire springs' worth of data. But I can't be the only person out there wondering whether to chuck the whole thing.

Contemplating Jody's words, Anne of The Barely Attentive Mother concludes that her blog will self destruct in 7 days:

I lay in bed last night thinking about this blog and about personal blogging and all the blogging I do and have done. I decided I don't want to have a personal blog anymore, at least not this one.

Whether its blog burn-out or the siren's song of other projects elsewhere, it does seem that Spring presses many to rethink their relationship to and with the online world. Julia of Ticky Tacky recently bid adieu to all that:

...I am having a little love affair with my town. I am determined to really enjoy my life here... and have done a lot of fun things locally, spending the beautiful spring days outdoors.

Part of what is allowing me to do this cavorting around is all the extra time I suddenly have. While in Australia, and since returning, I've been a lot more engaged in life.

And it's mainly because I've stopped spending so much time on line.

I too have felt some of this so-called Spring Fever, manifested mostly as the dreaded I Have Nothing To Say mutation of classic writer's block, and I've noticed that others -- like Alice of Finslippy -- have also grappled with this lately.

So what is it exactly about Spring that does this to us? And how do we get through the Fever, if we do get through at all? Take a "blogging break"? Chuck the whole thing? Keep writing straight through it, even if it means writing about how you have nothing to write about? How have you gotten through your own existential blogging crises?