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Portrait of a BLOG Addict

In honor of National Blog Posting Month, I'll be writing here every day in November with a daily morsel of gratitude.  The truth is that I have SO MUCH about which to feel grateful that this should be a walk in the park. 

First up: BLOGS.

I LOVE blogs.  There's just no way around it.  I came across a private online journal for the first time about six years ago and I was immediately hooked.  Initially, I loved the idea of reading the normally secret thoughts and feelings of complete strangers, but the more blogs I read, the more I loved getting to know the writers and feel like a part of their lives by reading their blogs.  Now I not only write three blogs of my own, but I read approximately 80 blogs as often as they're updated and that list is constantly growing.

You could call it an illness, a horrible addiction, but that would imply there is something wrong with this much blog reading and that would be, well, wrong.  Reading blogs is my very favorite entertainment and writing them has kept me out of therapy for at least five years.  I learn so much, particularly about parenting, from other writers, people who bear their souls on the Internet for little more than the occasional comment and the satisfaction of seeing their words in "print."  The only thing that can cheer me up more than writing a good blog post is reading one.