Comments on: On not going to BlogHer

By: Zandria

Zandria — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:12:09 +0000

The conference was great, but 99% of the vendors/free stuff? Mommy-related. It was annoying.

By: laurie

laurie — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:47:02 +0000

I spoke on the blogging without children panel. It was a good conversation starter, I think. And as someone who gets all weird and gushy about the way you write, I’d have loved it if you were there!

Next year…and a few of us who selfishly and indulgently write about ourselves around here were also talking about a local meet-up if you’re interested.

By: sizzle

sizzle — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:49:44 +0000

I would have loved to have met you but also…I found BlogHer to be really overwhelming and not big on quality time with the bloggers I really thought I’d get to know better. I am still glad that I went but am not sure I would jump at the chance to go again.

I feel like that makes me a freak.

Still, I’d love to have a glass of wine with you someday. :-)

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:57:05 +0000

@Kristabella – How come I didn’t meet you at BlogHer? I read that thing about “you can’t just say “I’m a personal blogger,” so I struggled to think of a way to describe my blog. And then everyone else got to just say “I’m a Mommy blogger” and walk away when I said I didn’t have kids. Ugh.

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:16:57 +0000

Very well said. I was terribly irritated by the person in the BlogHer pre-conference guide who said not to tell people that you have a personal blog. That I was supposed to have a pitch.

I HAVE a personal blog. It is about me. And being just a personal blog is totally OK. I don’t need a hook.

By: t2ed

t2ed — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:05:40 +0000

Want to make sure I understand this post.

I can still write all those stories about my kitties, right? That’s a load off my mind.

Gotta run. Little Bosco just said the most precious thing and I want to make him say it again so I can record it.

By: becky

becky — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:53:10 +0000

I, for one, missed you terribly. :*

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BlogHer 2008 « Not To Be Trusted With Knives — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:36:08 +0000

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BlogHer 2008 « Not To Be Trusted With Knives — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:04:28 +0000

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By: Ryane

Ryane — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:25 +0000

As usual, Kris, you have hit the nail on the head. I honestly thing that any blogger that dismisses another blogger based upon something they are not is missing the point. Thank god we aren’t all mommybloggers or singlebloggers or foodbloggers or whatever. I mean, even Lifetime TV switches it up. It can’t all be about Tracy Gold. Wait, did I just admit to knowing that Tracy Gold stars in approximately 47% of all Lifetime movies???? ;-)

By: KB

KB — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:04:14 +0000

My sister blogs about her kids. I love my sister, but I don’t read it as much as I read yours.

I just don’t relate!!!

By: MereCat

MereCat — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:50:50 +0000

I feel ya. It’s not just the bloggers that categorize according to kids/not kids. I can’t understand it for the life of me. I think you might actually have MORE to write about without kids. You can certainly do more without them. I mean, do you really want to hear my dissertation on poopy diapers? I hardly think so, but that’s pretty much what I have to talk about these days. How can you glorify that?

By: wildbill

wildbill — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:20:22 +0000

Children, No children- Who cares, as long as we get to practice conception over and over again. What are you drinking now?

By: daddymolson

daddymolson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:24:18 +0000

Isn’t blogging a way to escape, vent, and get perspective? Isn’t it a passionate expression of what makes you feel, breathe, ache, laugh, bleed, and love?

Children are the ultimate reality check, the difinitive reason parents are submerged in sacrifice. Why the hell would anyone blog about their kids??? It’s akin to writing a love song about your Mother.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:01:58 +0000

I will not miss you there because you are here and I like you just the way you are, like me.

Cheers!

By: kris

kris — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:19:33 +0000

And Lifetime movies starring Valerie Bertinelli before she starting dating Jenny Craig. Oh, the fun we could have together, my dear.

By: Pants

Pants — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:08:15 +0000

Kris, Also known as any day ending in “Y”. :-)

By: kris

kris — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:46:02 +0000

Eskimo language has 18 different words for snow. We should have at least that many to describe intelligent women.

hclark, I don’t know who you are, but you should have my night job. Because this is what I was trying to say, only you did so much more eloquently than I. Cheers.

By: Madame Meow

Madame Meow — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:32:36 +0000

Hey, let’s get some bloggers together and mope, er, celebrate not going to BlogHer! We can even go throw water balloons at mothers (just don’t hit my kid cause he doesn’t like water in his face– go figure).

By: kitkat

kitkat — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:26:37 +0000

What is it that you write about if you don’t have a husband and little ones?

Oh jeez. This takes me back to my days of having to interact with the Navy wives. And I don’t mean all the wives–just the ones who have nothing to talk about except their kids, crafts, or husbands. They didn’t know how to talk to me.

When I would tell them that I was working on my Master’s, I could have sworn I sensed a little envy at times…keep that in mind. Everyone has something to contribute. If those mommy-bloggers can’t see that in you, then they’re missing out.

By: jordanbaker

jordanbaker — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:23:55 +0000

If you ever have children, I’ll stop reading in protest.

By: KP

KP — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:06:46 +0000

Mommyblogs are a dime a dozen, and I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way, because I do read some. But it’s harder to find bloggers like you. I like your blog because it’s not about one specific thing. You’re not in a category, because like most bloggers I read regularly, you’re your own category. And that rocks.

By: hclark

hclark — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:30:28 +0000

I read writers. And because you seem like a really fucking cool person who I would really enjoy having the same conversation with in a bar drinking martinis. I realize conversations go both ways, but I am having the other half in my head, trust me.

I too have no children. And I’m not sure “mommy” or “child-free by choice” either one appropriately categorize me. Eskimo language has 18 different words for snow. We should have at least that many to describe intelligent women.

So it’s not San Francisco. Come to Santa Barbara instead. I’ll buy the first round.

By: kris

kris — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:14:34 +0000

Pants, most of us call that THURSDAY. No?

By: gorillabuns

gorillabuns — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:02:44 +0000

Sadly, I wish I was going too. I’m not sure why, since I didn’t have the grandest of times last year but now that I know more people, I think I would have had a better time this year. Only if I could drink. and afford it.