Best of the blogiverse
I don’t know what’s in the water, but the usual spectacular level of storytelling on the Internet (in my realm, anyway — I make no claims outside of the people in my newsfeed) has been off-the-charts lately. Looking for some seriously can’t-miss entries? Then I urge you to check out this sampling:
My hands-down favorite story is Tiff’s true tale about sharing Nationals tickets with a colleague and his amazing friend who went to unparalleled lengths to pay back the kindness that is just in her nature. I want to marry that guy!
I was a first-time visitor to this blog, and this is what I found. And wow. It contains not only an observation that the Web has become the new backyard fence over which we share ourselves with our neighbors, but also how we are shifting the culture ourselves and defining our place in our generation, our community. Via Mom’s Daily Dose.
Valbee’s post on running into her beloved and, sadly, belated husband’s hospice nurse has been stuck in my head since the day she posted it. I don’t comment on people’s blogs very often (I’m lazy) and I didn’t in this case, but I wanted to extend a virtual bushel of hugs to her.
Sabre experiences the pain of “Cell Phone Induced Stupidity.” To read it is to hear her telling the story. OMG, I’m surprised she let the woman live. My mom just got a big ol’ dent in her car too thanks to some asshole not knowing how to operate his vehicle. What’s in the water these days? Toxins we can live with. It’s the big swig of idiocy that people are taking that makes the rest of us wonder why we’re the ones getting the tickets and the bad luck instead of THEM!!!
On the lighter side, I’ve gotta send some lovin’ to Trouble, with her occasional — but always glamorous, tasteful and just downright appreciated — Happy HNT series (Half-Nekkid Thursdays, for the uninitiated). HAWTTTTT!!!
“Someone Who,” by EJ Takes Life is a wonderful toast to finding an amazing friend in this lonely city. Her first line, “Hard as it is to get a boyfriend in Washington, it may be harder to get a girlfriend,” is the most universal thing I’ve heard in forever. Via D.C. Blogs.
And in just, well, DUH news, the WaPo posits that “In Today’s Rat Race, the Most Overworked Win.”
OK, so that last one wasn’t found on a blog. But I would gander that it’s shown up in some non-typed conversations! 😉