Waving the White Flag

To my fellow Bloggers:

I call a truce.

No, I beg a truce.

You see, Lucy and I have got it bad. We started this trip to Hollywood six months ago and along the way, have made some friends out in the blogosphere, on facebook and twitter. And every time we find another blog we love, it gets added to our reading list. (Technorati estimates there are 12 million blogs. Twelve Million!)

I know there are many Real Bloggers out there, those who somehow find the time to write their own great blogs, read other blogs and leave cool comments on said blogs -- and they find time to do this EVERY day.

Maybe I'm jealous or maybe I'm not committed enough. I certainly know I'm not a Real Blogger.

But would it be too much to consider this modest proposal: I propose that that you/we/they/them/the Real Bloggers post every other day to give the rest of the slackers, I mean, bloggers (read: me) time to catch up. This is a movement in Blog Conservation. A way to reduce, before you reuse and recycle. Saving for a rainy day.

You see, you probably wrote something really awesome three days ago, but since it's now at the bottom of your posts, I may not see it. Ever. What a waste that is. You may have poured your heart and soul into a funny anecdote about your kid streaking at the grocery store. Or maybe you spent hours perfecting a story about about something stupid your mother-in-law said about your housekeeping abilities. I didn't mean to miss it. But I did. Sorry.

And it's not that I don't want to write more. I do, I really do. For example, I wanted to write something hilarious about my son's last-minute decision to change his costume as we were walking out the door to go trick-or-treating last night, but that's all I could come up with. That, and the cute detail that my Little Firefighter-turned-Turtle told every homeowner that he was allergic to peanuts so could he please have something besides a peanut butter cup no matter how many times I told him just to take it and say thank you. You see I couldn't carve an entire post out of just that.

So come on, please consider slowing down a bit. Not stopping. Hell-to-the-NO. That would just be nuts. That's not what I'm saying at all. But come on, hook a blogger up, ok? Just gimme a chance to get caught up. (Please ignore the fact that the time I spent begging you to ease up a bit could have been spent catching up on, what, six blogs.)

Thanks. And we now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

:-)

Photo by Jan Jacobsen.