Couple Quick Blog Items

As a person who has gotten some flack in real life for blogging, by people who think it is dangerous or people who think I'm a geek (hey, no argument there) I'd just like to point out a couple of neat-o things.

1. My bloggy buddy and fellow twin mom, Snickollet (aka Stacey Kim) is featured in CNN today. She talks about blogging as therapy.

2. The infamous Heather Armstrong (aka Dooce) whom I have read since BEFORE the whole dooced thing happened, wrote a really eloquent post about the decision to blog and a response to the critics,  specifically in regards to mom-blogging. She will be on the Today Show today/tomorrow? I'm confused. Soon, okay. Or just yesterday. Just watch online for god's sakes. (Or turn to ABC, I think she is also coming up on Good Morning America). Did you see her?

Great going, ladies! Soon us mombloggers will take over THE WORLD! I say- THE WORLD! Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

Comments

[snickollet]

Hey, thanks :). Hopefully I'll move to OR sometime and we can scheme together on the world takevoer plan.

I am a geek, so I can't comment on that aspect of blogging, but as for the "danger" . . . I agree with you that Dooce did a great job responding to that, so I'll just second the referral to her site.

[Abacaxi Mamao]

I saw Snickollet on CNN, too, and was like, "Hey, worlds collide!" For some reason, I always think of the blogging world and the real world as two totally different universes. And when bloggers turn out to be real, live human beings, featured in real, old-school media (as CNN is), it sort of confuses me for a minute.

Regardless, good going, ladies!

[Katy]

I came over here via Ryn Tales. I just wanted to say that I read your post regarding inclusion and I think you did a bang-up job outlining it's confusing issues. I was an inclusion teacher for two years--kids with mild physical and learning disabilities. It was great for some of these kids, but for others it was a case of not getting what they need.

The three years before that I taught a reading class for kids with dyslexia. I often felt as if I was runnign a little haven. For one hour a day they could be with kids just like them. We did read, but we also joked around, worked on homework for other classes, and just gave the kids a time where they could be themselves. God help me, two of the kids married each other! They invited me to the wedding two years after they graduated.

My feelings on inclusion were mixed and I think you did a great job of summing it all up. Also, as the mother to a child who has disabilities, I think you raised some great questions about making my child feel loved and wanted and helping him find people that are like him.

[shannon]

Ahem.

Time to update!!!!!!!!!!!

[Laura in L.A.]

Lisa? Is everything okay? Haven't heard from you.

Love, Laura