Why do you blog?
I feel lucky
to do what I do. I blog about real people, often by living their lives
for a while-visiting their lives, you might say. Trying them on for
size. Though there are easier ways to make a living, I suppose, none
strike me as a fraction so interesting.
I don’t like to categorize my subject matter, except to say that my
favorite kind of story is one that others have overlooked. Not that I
like "small"
stories, but I like to find people whose lives matter more than they
might think, or more than others think. I have a bad habit of skipping
the big stories on page one and looking for the interesting little
stories tucked further back in the blog. I like blogging where the
blogger has something at stake; where I doesn’t depend too heavily on
"experts" but rather has had time to think and research and transform
myself into an expert; where my caring and the urgency of the subject
can transform the blog into something that matters, an act of witnessing.
- Tell me why do you b l o g?
