Is Blogging Dead? I say NO! (guest post).

Please welcome Kristine (whose hair I covet but that’s a different post).  I’ve invited her here to share her response to my musings on the State of the Blogging. I have a lot of thoughts on the topic of blogging. Even though I don’t write long “journalog”-type posts much, I still consider myself having been a blogger since April 2000. That’s forever in internet years, right?! I volunteered and then worked for a then-big blogging company in the 2000s, and so I know that shapes my perspective. I think blogging has shifted, not died. When I started, there was no commenting; to react to what a friend said, we wrote posts and linked to the friend. Comments let conversations happen on the original

The Value of Pain.

(Carla note: I adore The Invitation, too.) Please welcome my writer-friend, Valerie. And, because writers WRITE, the below was simply her comment about my Happiness Bullying post. Because it resonated with me Ive asked her to share it here. I hope it resonates with you as well. I’ve spent several days pondering this post. Carla always makes me think – some days more than others. Sometimes it’s an immediate, “Yes!”, while others times I may spend days cogitating and letting something resonate before I’m ready to discuss. This was one of the latter occasions. It made sense to me right away, but I could feel something simmering at a deeper level, so I took time to think about it before