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Teaworthy

Litigator, Mediator, Writer, Photographer

Originally from Kentucky, Tiffany discovered Skirt! while studying English literature at the College of Charleston and continued following Skirt! while in law school in Georgia. Now practicing law in Lexington, she is thrilled to be part of the Skirt! community where she blogs about being mom to a ...

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Pen Pals

I wish everyone had blogs. In seventh grade, I had a pen-pal from Australia. She told me she wanted to fly with Quantas and that she spent Christmas Day on the beach.  I wrote back with lots of questions about those things, but her response was usually sent before she received my next letter, so we were often having one-sided conversations with ourselves.  It was like a precursor to blogging. 

Due to blogging here and elsewhere, when I run into people I haven’t seen in months, they often know most of everything that is going on with our little family, and I know very little about what is going on in their lives.  And I really want to know.  I am at an intimacy deficit. Deepak Chopra writes about how intimacy is, in it’s own way, “Into Me, I See.”  I guess that’s true, to find closeness in similar experiences that explain our own emotions.  But mostly, I’m just interested.  I spend my time with them trying to catch up and I worry sometimes that I get on a roll with the questioning and I sound like I’m taking their deposition.  Occupational hazard, I guess.

I adore Adam Gopnik. I’ve blogged before about his amazing book Through The Children’s Gate: A Home In New York, and an interview you can watch here that he gave to Charlie Rose on the subject. 

In the interview, which we have kept on our TiVo for good chi for more than a year,  Charlie talks about having dinner with the Gopnik children and says they are remarkable.  Adam very sincerely says, “Well, thank you. That’s nice of you to say. I believe that all children are remarkable.”

I wanted to jump up and down and say, “YES! Absolutely!” He says so many brilliant, beautifully phrased things in that interview about raising children.  

I wish he blogged. 

I learn so much from the blogs that I regularly read: a photography tip, a vacation spot, a recipe for mango salsa.  I hope someone gets something of value from my blogs. 

There are blogs that I follow written by people I don’t know personally and yet, I feel like I really know them. 

Since a Cookie Magazine Editor’s note mention, I have been following www.princeliamthebrave.blogspot.com  which is a family blog about their 4-year-old son’s fight with neuroblastoma.  With every victory, I jump up and down and with tough news like yesterday’s post, I send prayers.  They don’t know me, but their family comes up at our dinner table and I will tell my husband the latest news. (If you are so inclined, please keep them in your prayers, by the way). 

And then there are people who I see every day and interact with and I have no idea what they are going through.  There are things that people keep private, things that are none of my business.  I don’t want to intrude and look into the closed windows of people’s lives.  But now that I blog in various places, I feel a bit like I’m on the examination side of a one-way mirror, all access in without much view out unless I’m peering into the next town.   

So tell me, how are the koala bears in your town?  What’s your blog address?