Grandma Henke

I spent an afternoon catching up on my blog reading again and couldn’t help but marvel at all the talent floating about cyber-land.    Personally, I think blogs have been as life changing as the invention of inside toilets!   It has been a means of liberation to many of us who love to write and create and share and it has created such a unique means of making friends all around the world.    

It’s kind of mind wobbling for me to think that I have people that I now feel very close to … who I would even dare to use the phrase (my close friend) in a sentence about them … and yet have never and possibly will never see them in person.

I went through knee replacement surgery with my pal who writes the blog,  Going Like Sixty.     He has quite a following of old timers like me … and has somehow manages to keep track of us well enough to send us personal notes and links that coincide with events happening in our lives.    I don’t know how he does that other than he must have a big old fat notebook of facts … because he’s an old timer like the rest of us.   Enough said.   

Alice, at Wintersong, has probably had the most impact on me as “a close friend” that I have never met in real life.    She has given me the right kind of encouragement to get me to actually write … as in BOOKS.    She writes as if we are sitting down to chat and has just exactly the right kind of humor.     I don’t know how it was that I stumbled on her blog in the first place but the first one I read absolutely cracked me up as she talked about Utah Mormons from a non-Mormon perspective.    

Another blog I love to visit and thoroughly enjoy is Virginia’s First 50 Words.  I love the quick writing challenges she gives out daily.   It’s like finding the crossword puzzle in the Newspaper …. ya just gotta do it.

My heart went out to my friend, Sally, whose husband of 54 years passed away this past October.    My heart twisted when I read of her loss and I wanted to be there to comfort her.    

Krista is one of my younger friends and I love her blog because it is uplifting and spiritual as well as full of cute stories about her family.    I am excited for the birth of her 2nd son in a little over two months … it’s fun to share those kinds of things with “close friends” via the Internet.    I’m grateful that somehow our cyber vibes found each other.

I’ve recently made a new friend at Coffee & Varnish.    Isn’t that just the strangest two words together?    It is such fun to peek into the lives of talented people who share their every day lives with such flair.    They are all such an inspiration to me.

Ronni Bennett has so many awesome links on her blog, Time Goes By, and links a lot of us seniors together in a good way.    In fact, it is probably through her that I have met the most of my new friends.   

My son in law, Brett, keeps me entertained with his perspective on fatherhood and tales like this one of his trip to Costco with three of his children in tow.    My daughter, Kim, has a real knack for pinpointing important learning moments and a cute way of repeating the funny things her children do and say.    I wish all of my children were as diligent in blogging!     My daughter in law, Kim, does have an excellent blog titled, All About Food Storage, this an absolute must for young mothers who are trying to prepare nutritious on a frugal budget. 

It’s all these bloggers plus the rest of them in my blog roll to the right who keep me encouraged and going on my own blog.      Blogging is more than a hobby, more than just  a way to keep a journal, more than just a venue for writing.   It’s my personal

community of people I love!