Archive for the 'Blogs' Category

Thank you to Alina at The Closet Environmentalist , Cat at Making It Home, and Steph at Adventures in Babywearing for presenting me with the Thinking Blogger Award! If you nominated me and I didn’t list you…please email me and I will edit this!

So now…I am required to list 5 blogs that make me THINK..and those that I nominate are supposed to nominate their own five. It’s so hard to choose just five…I could list 20 (see my blogroll!) but here goes:

• Casaubon’s Book: Thoughtful, intellectual writing. Really great stuff. Be prepared to spend awhile there.
• Living Plastic Free: I’m always on the lookout for people that are doing “radical” things that I haven’t attempted yet. This blog really opened my eyes. Plastic is everywhere.
• Simple Living: A blog that encourages action…especially her newest challenge.
• Making Home: An amazing Christian woman tackling the hard issues. A lot of fun reading on her site.
• Simplicity Soup: Rachel is beautiful on the inside and out. Her posts make me smile and sometimes I wonder if we don’t share a brain.

Wheeeee! Isn’t color much more fun? I’ve made a few changes to my blog with the help of Swank Web Style. I designed the new header and they installed it into WordPress with all the new features. If you’re interested in having me design a header for your blog…let me know and I can give you the details.

So what’s new? Well…if you’ve ever tried to read the archives on my blog, you will probably agree that with Blogger, it was pretty frustrating. Now, all of my previous posts are categorized and listed along the left sidebar…so you can “research” with ease. I’ve also added more links and a “blogroll” (blogs that I read consistently and that have good content). There is a link on the right side that allows you to email me directly…I know some of you have had trouble in the past trying to track me down Lastly, the new web address…which makes it easier to remember and tell your friends!

Welcome to the NEW and improved “Walk Slowly, Live Wildly”!

I came across an interesting blog…No Impact Man. It’s one man’s radical attempt to decrease his family’s “impact” on the earth over the course of a year. It’s inspiring and CRAZY. It’s been in the news lately, so you may have already heard about it…but I know that many of you will enjoy tracking his progress this year as they live mindfully.

If you read any other blogs…I’m sure you have heard that it is National Delurking Week. Being that I have been traveling for the last week, and will be gone for another week, I probably won’t post any blogs for a bit.

SO, it’s YOUR turn to “blog my blog”. I would LOVE to hear from all of you that read…where you are from, your interests, how you found my blog, etc. Basically anything interesting you can think of. This is especially for those of you who never comment…but I want to hear from my regulars as well! I am so encouraged by all of your comments and I appreciate you so much!

Have a blessed week…

Reading other people’s blogs is kind of like sneaking into their room and reading their personal journal. Everyone is curious about other people’s lives…hence the popularity of “the blog”. I get such enjoyment from all the blogs I read. They offer wisdom, encouragement, camaraderie, laughter. I love to comment on blogs and receive comments too (hint, hint!).

If you like reading blogs too, you MUST run to Bloglines and set up an account (thanks Heather!). This saves so much time and is a wonderful service. Basically, you set up one account to “track” all of the blogs you want to read. It will notify you whenever a new blog has been posted by that person. You can even put a little button on your browser that says “Sub to Bloglines” that will let you subscribe quickly to that blog when you are at that page. The blog must have an RSS feed to be included.

I currently subscribe to about 50 blogs…and read about 10 a day as they are updated. Here are some of my favorites:

A Joy-Full Life
Two Songbirds on a Wire
Dinner at my house…tonight
From Under the Laundry Pile
Laura’s MySpace blog
The Shape of a Mother
The View from Here
Natural Living Des Moines
Babycatcher