Fabruary 2025
February is over. Fabruary is here.
I'm curious about the blog posts that resonated with you last month. Which was your favorite among all the blog posts you read? What appealed to you about the text?
Please get in touch and let me know, and I'll add you to the list below. You're welcome to include a link to your own blog as well.
I look forward to reading your comments.
It feels weird that people are reading
I love this post! It captures so much of what blogging is about. Even if our main purpose isn't necessarily to be read, it sure feels nice when some do, and it also feels surreal.
What were your first seven jobs?
Lou Plummer, like no other escribitionist I know, has a stunning way of capturing slices of his life. Through a wide variety of topics, I learn about challenges he has overcome, lessons he has learned, and things he has come to treasure in life. It's like listening to my wise father-in-law if we had the shared cultural and political sensitivities. This post is a great example of the wisdom that only comes from a person who has been through it. Reading it, and the rest of his website, is helping me reframe some of my own expriences.
Zinzy's blog and reply to Lou Plummer
I enjoyed reading because it went from everyday things to reflections on family and relationships. There’s a balance of humor, exhaustion, and tenderness that makes it deeply human and relatable.
Choosing my pace by shaping my thinking spaces (Part 5)
With the following passage, Tracy highlights the stakes of media consumption:
Controlling the pace of media becomes a tool of power, with political ramifications. If we’re busy watching, we’re not acting. If we’re stuck listening, we’re not thinking. If we’re not sure what’s happening, we’ll wait to gather more information. If we’re constantly playing catch up, we’re always in reactive mode, never proactive.
This systemic strategy dovetails with ideas of perfectionism; we must have complete information before we can act. We can't do something unless we do it right. "Be an informed consumer."
On one hand Neo-liberalism demands that we "do more with less" but there's a corollary; we have more "news" so we "do less when there's more." And Tracy articulates this so well in her meditation on recognizing the gluttonous buffet that is available for us to consume.
This page is under construction
I love Sophie's heartfelt call to action in this one: please build your own website. Yes! We need more cozy, personal homes on the world wide web. Her post is both inspiring and practical, packed with interesting links and resources to help you get started crafting.
The hardest working font in Manhattan
Appropriately published on Valentine's Day, this is a love letter to a font with an incredible history. Wichary writes with such devotion and care; each point dutifully illustrated by some gorgeous photography.
This was the post that moved me the most. The one thing that scares me in the world, not being able to solve a problem for my daughter. That’s it. It made me cry, it came back to haunt me (multiple times), and I know there are no words that can make it better, let alone go away. I’m so so sorry.