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Back again for another installment of Stone Soup Mondays, an open thread that collects the best things you read on the Web and compiles them in one space to extend the lifespan of a great blog post by two weeks. If you missed this series in the past, please click here to read more about the impulse behind the idea.
Second Helpings
Before we get to a new pot of bloggy soup, let's revisit last week's posts for some second helpings.
- "Proud to Believe"
- "My Single Most Important Takeaway from BlogHer '11"
- "Mommy Brain"
- "Why Not Let Warren Jeffs Starve"
- "Should We Cut Grandpa Some Slack?"
- "Don't Sing Mommy"
- "September in the Orchard"
- "What Made Me Beautiful"
- "How to Survive a Plane Crash"
- "Adam&Eve and My Daughter"
- "How's This for an Alter Ego?"
- "How Strangers Change Our Lives for the Better"
- "Invisible Illness Week"
- "Celebrating"
- "Frosty Fall Morning"
- "Is There Intelligent Life on Planet Marriage?"
The Current Thread
Want to participate?
I'll start it out each week by placing in the stone, a great post I read while I surfed from blog to blog. You'll add all the vegetables -- great posts you read -- in the comment section and people will be able to jump from post to post, reading and commenting.
This thread will remain open until Thursday and then next Monday, we'll start it all over again.
In addition to including a permalink to the blog post, please write a few sentences about what drew you to the writing in the first place.
Answers to Questions that Might be Bubbling in Your Mind
- Can I nominate a post from my own blog? Of course -- why not? We all write great posts and we should stand by our writing, proud of what we're putting into the blogosphere.
- Can I nominate only one blog post? No, if you read more than one fantastic blog post this week, please put in a link to more than one blog post. Just make sure you write a few sentences about each post.
- What if the blog post I liked was written by a man? Include it! We don't discriminate over here at BlogHer and we're always happy to read great posts by a BlogHim.
- I'm really shy and don't want to boast about this great post I wrote, but I want it on the thread. Then email it to me and I'll add it in. Or ask a friend to post about it for you.
Just to recap: each week, make sure you bookmark this open thread and check backhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif regularly to find great posts to read. The thread remains open from Monday until Thursday. I'll always start it off with a great post I read and then open up the comment section so that you can add a link and a few sentences about a great post (or two) you read. Please make sure the post fits within the thread's timeline (this week: September 18th to September 26th).
The Stone (otherwise known as getting this pot of blog soup started):
A Little Sweetness has a post about figuring out what to wear for her hot night out on the town. It's been four years since they last went out before their first child was born, and while she knows that she used to be able to pull together a cute outfit, she seems to have forgotten in the interim. Go commiserate as well as give her some advice.
To read more great posts written between September 18th to September 26th, please peruse the comment section below. And while you're reading these great posts, make sure you leave a comment to let the writer know that you agreed with the original sentiment that they wrote something thought-provoking, moving, or informative.
Melissa writes Stirrup Queens and Lost and Found. Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch.
