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“Blog on the spot – Spot the Blog”

Interesting prompt for today.  I do host blogs other places on the Net.  One I wrote in for a long time, quite frequently.  I have a following there and, although I do write in other places now,  I tend to go back to my first blog quite  a bit.  Now that I’ve written in that one for a few years, it’s fun for me to go back to that blog and read things that happened and my reactions to them.  Most of the situations in that blog are work-related.  You may think that there wouldn’t be a lot of situations in the work place that bring out a lot of humor, but at the time I started the blog I had just taken over one of the worst-run restaurants in my corporation.  I knew no one would believe the things I was going through on a daily basis unless I wrote them down as they happened!  Now I look back and laugh at the ulcer-inducing times I had back then. 

I’ve gotten into other blogging communities as well, mostly through the prompting of my mom (who is an author) and some of her author friends.  They host blogs as well, and I have found them truly enjoyable to read.  Of course, I find a lot of blogs that I don’t care for (random rants including more four-letter-words than actual, intelligent arguments), but there are some really good reads out there, and I stop back often to learn and get new ideas.  There are even a couple of blogs that I read from writers whose opinions I disagree with drastically.  The reason I keep going back?  To see how they present arguments and “pick them apart”, if you will, as I am sure they do with mine.  

Blogging, I’ve heard, is for people who have something to say.  I think everyone has something to say… and I think we all have a lot to learn from one another.  There are always two sides to every coin.  Sometimes we change our opinions when we read the other side of the coin.  Other times, it only serves to enforce our original thoughts.  The point is, the more exposure to both sides of an argument, the better able I feel I am to make an intelligent argument!


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