What Blogs I Usually Read and Why Part Two

So, other blogs in the US that I read (except for blogs focused on religion, I've split my roll up geographically).

Clutch Cargo Lips is Cedar Waxwing (I know a couple of birds who have blogs...). I found her originally in the x365 blog community. x365 was started by this guy who turned 40 and decided to write 40 words about a person he knew. Every day for a year. Well, this was right up my alley. So I did it, too--except 32 words since that year I turned 32. We've all moved on, except Mrs. Slocombe (more on that next week). But here's one of the folks who read mine and vice versa, in another blog incarnation. Mom of two teenagers, a few years ahead of me, basically. Easy to read and sometimes, often, thought provoking.

Route 153 is Indigo Bunting's current blog. Another x365er, she was the first person to comment on my x365 blog. So I've been reading her ever since. She's in Vermont, which is like this mythical place to me, with a husband and a social crowd in and around her small town that have become a sort of periodic novel for me. I don't even care if any of them are real. I just like to read. And wish I lived there.

K & the 3 Ds is written in Wisconsin by a mom of two marathon runner school volunteer extraordinaire. I found her through Lisa (from part one a few days back). She cares more than I do and doesn't take the easy way out. She makes me want to make mittens for kids who need them.

My Green Vermont (again, Vermont) is Lali's blog. I have figured out that she knows Indigo Bunting in real life...I followed her to her blog from IB's comments. She writes about farm and goats and chickens and spinach and yoga and spirituality and growing up around the world and so forth.

Nutsy Fagan was big competition on ~Easy's music quizzes. And then I followed her link to see who she was (since I thought she was a guy, to begin with...). She's on the east coast with sailboats and PTA and sometimes funny funny things to say.

Rossakatum Branch is named for a creek near Joya's place, also east coast, but this time farm. I found her via Indigo Bunting, again, right as she found a group of stray cats and took them in. I was hooked. She sometimes writes about everyday stuff like cats and gardens but sometimes it's amazingly profound or just plain fun.

Texan Mama found me--she's originally from St. Louis although obviously not there at the moment. I know Texas and she knows St. Louis and each gets a glimpse, I suppose, of the other. The first thing I read by her was a comparison between children and white carpeting. Religion, children, annoying people--she's probably technically a Mommy blogger, but then, I guess I am, too.

I realized just now that there's a group of blogs I don't keep on my blogroll because they're not about the people who write them. I guess that will be later--things I go to read because they are hilarious or bizarre or interesting, but not because the people who write them have become semi-fictional characters for me....

More later. Dinner time.