Summer Blues

Hope you all had a great Labor day. We spent the day with family, and had a great time.

Sorry for the silence last week. I didn't get any posts ready ahead of time, and ran out of time to do it the day of, so...I didn't post anything.

Lately I haven't really felt motivated to work on anything. I think my mind just needed a break from all the go-go-go of the last year. Now that the school year is starting up, I'm hoping to find the motivation to gear down and get some things done.

Speaking of getting things done, I'm working on creating a series of posts on cartoon princesses (mostly Disney) and how they've changed through the years. It's something I've been toying with for a few months now, and have finally started to do the research for. I'm hoping it will turn in to something fun for all of us!

If you have an idea of something you'd like to see on the blog, drop me a line and let me know! I'd love to have some ideas to play with.

Have a great week!!!

Following

Matthew MacNish asked Why Follow? on his blog post last Friday.   It's a great post,  If you haven't seen it, I recommend reading it.  This post made me think about a related topic I have been considering posting on.  How I follow.  As part of the Platform Building Campaign, I have started following new blogs (and have picked up new followers here-- welcome all!,).  But what does it mean when I follow your blog?

I follow several blogs (posted on the left side here) without expecting to be followed back (although I am grateful to all of you who do!).  When I visit a blog (either following a link from another post or stumbling upon it another way) I read a few posts and look around.  If I think it is something I will be interested in following, I look for the follow button or RSS feed button on your blog (if you don't have one, you should so I can follow you more easily.), then add you to my Google reader.  And here is where the magic happens for me.  Every time you update your blog, it appears in my reader.  I will click on the link and read your blog in the bubble that opens (sometimes I have to go to the original item as the entire post doesn't show.)

For everyone I follow -- I do read your posts.  I just don't always comment on them.  I can't.  With working, being a wife and mother, and writing, I don't have enough time to.  But, I do read them, and will comment on ones that peak my interest, or when I have something to add to the conversation going on in the comments.

How about you?  How do you follow?