About
This is a blog where I write about things I have been thinking about and obsessing over. My target audience is really just myself, but I always hope that each post will be interesting for at least one other person out there. Common themes are names and books, but I don’t limit myself to any particular topic. Similarly, I don’t try to hold myself to a posting schedule. I pretty much always have at least one post in my drafts, but since I write my posts in and around all the other stuff in my life, updates can be pretty infrequent.
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Recommended blogs
If you find my posts interesting, you might also enjoy some of the blogs I read. I grouped them by topic, but otherwise the list is in no particular order.
Names
- Nancy’s Baby Names – Focuses on tracing the history of unusual names that had a sudden burst in popularity
- Swistle: Baby Names – Specializes in thoughtful advice to parents struggling to name a baby
- Appellation Mountain – A little bit of everything! The name advice is good, but my favorite are the name of the day posts
- The Well-Informed Namer – Lots of fun lists, excellent taste in weird names
- Namberry Baby Name News – Nameberry has some of the most useful themed lists out there
Other topics
- Buildings of New England – Photos and brief histories of architecturally interesting houses in New England
- McMansion Hell – Funny posts about ugly houses
- Ask a Manager – Advice blog focused on work issues
- Captain Awkward – Advice blog focused on interpersonal issues
- KJ Charles – One of my favorite romance authors, writes blog posts that are interesting for writers and non-writers alike
- Rachel Neumeier – One of my favorite SFF authors, a very good curator of other blogs – a lot of her posts comment on interesting posts from blogs that I am not quite interested in enough to follow
How to find new blogs
Here’s two good places to look for interesting blogs: ooh.directory and Search My Site
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