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I am on the West Coast at the moment, after Rob encouraged me to take Nolan and visit my brother and parents for the (Canadian) Thanksgiving Weekend. It is lovely as always but my Mom has endless jars of wrapped toffee and cups of steaming tea with honey and I am too full to construct a cohesive theme to my blog choices for the day. So I'm just going to provide three links I like, and hope you like them too.Post Hip Chick is a relative new read for me. I found her after she left several witty and provocative comments on my blog, and I am so glad she did. Today she mourns her series of mistakes, including two I've made: attempting to shower with a baby, and trying to eat dinner while holding the baby (Ha!) These days I just eat whetever's left on my shirt after Nolan's done with his dinner.
Also, are you reading Stephanie Klein? If you're a parent, you might not be. Until recently, Stephanie was a martini-sipping, smart-talking, slinky New York butterfly, and would not have had much in common with us peach-stained, yoga-pant wearing baby mamas. I read her before I got pregnant, I always thought she had some of the most beautifully crafted words on any blog I'd seen. Now, she's got a book deal, a husband, and two babies in utero. Read her and prepared to be continually astonished by her candid observations on life.
Finally, Kristen at Eva Las Vegas joins the rank of paid Mommyblogging, except, for an actual publication rather than a blog. I think she's a talented writer and I'm happy for her. I've seen rumblings around the Internet about "all these Mommybloggers suddenly getting paid gigs" - but, from what I've seen, the paid bloggers are all excellent writers too. Blogging has just opened up the playing field to the "common woman" - not just the neice of so-and-so at the newspaper. Or at least, that's what I think (and I am quite often very wrong.)
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone, I shall have an extra bite of pumpkin pie for all of you not celebrating the holiday till later in the year.
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10-07-2006 @ 2:13AM
Michelle said...You're on the west coast?? cool. And as another canadian Happy thanksgiving..
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10-07-2006 @ 7:20AM
karrie said...Stephanie Klein?????
Argh. Shallow, self-obsessed women like her make me want to poke my eyes out and never read blogs again. To each their own, but I think she's dreadful and lacks talent as a writer as well.
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10-07-2006 @ 9:17AM
WOW said...WOW that's harsh! Her blog is great... just checked out your "wonderful" piece of work and I wouldn't go back there again... talk about lack of talent and dreadful!
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10-07-2006 @ 10:49PM
z. said...Stephanie Klein has some of the most obsessed fans in the whole blogosphere. If you criticize her, you'll feel their wrath. Just ask Jen Lancaster (another blogger/author). She criticized Klein's book and suddenly, the negative reviews of Jen's book went through the roof.
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10-08-2006 @ 9:47AM
wow said...Yeah but from looking at Jen's blog... she bashed Stephanie. Stephanie had experience as a designer, writer and photographer prior to her book and got money out of it... Jen's post seems to me like she's just jealous because she didn't get the money or the praise. She was panned by Publisher's Weekly. People get bad reviews by the professionals... it happens. There's enough room out there for these two "writers" and many others too even.... no one is going to like EVERY other person out there.
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