And all of sudden gremmie.net became a haven for charity.
Nancy is a family friend of ours who I remember as the best babysitter in the world. Though I was barely 3 or 4, I dearly recall the nights she took care of myself, brother, and sister. She has a fatal ailment called Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, so I suggest you gremmies head over to the website to check it out and donate. For future reference, there’s also a link in the Links section.
In a recent blog entry entitled ‘the gremmie archetype’. Published on January 18th, I briefly detailed my thoughts on the embedded relationship between blogs and their authors. Underscoring the inevitable debilitation that occurs when a blogger runs dry his initial thread of inspriation, a blog quickly becomes more laborious than fun thusly negating the original sentiment. Ultimately, the subjects and discussions contained on a blog can be read like a personal timeline to that blogger’s life much like a diary, only dryer.
The fundamental difference between a diary and a blog is the cognitive acceptance that others will read what you’ve written. Where in a diary, the author does not expect its contents to be read by anyone other than themselves, a blogger takes into account public image, however slight, and how a blog entry may be viewed by anyone reading it; therefore the authorial intentions for each are markedly different. As this paragraph relates to the first it is my estimation that all blogs whose steam has run out or lacked steam to begin with inevitably mutate into blog-diary hybrids. Bliaries, if you will.
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