Looking for something scrumptious to serve up this Father's Day?
Check out this posting on my friend Marta's blog. If that chocolate cake doesn't sound delicious, I don't know what does.
Speaking of delicious, that's a word I would use to describe Marta's writing. Delicious. I look forward to reading it every day. Maybe you will now, too.
I've known Marta for about 13 years. She was in the junior high English and creative writing classes I taught back in the day. She has always been one of my favies, and I'm so glad that we have kept in touch. Now we're blogfriends. I still don't know if I should sign the comments I make on her blog "Ms. Ed."--my teacher nick-name--or "Cath," but I'm sure that will work itself out as our blogfriendship progresses.
Blogfriendships are interesting, wouldn't you say? I would say that you are my blogfriend, even though I don't know that you are reading this unless you leave a comment. But I know that many of you are reading, because my Typepad stats tell me you are, and I thank you for checking in. But I do find it fascinating that the blog relationship is so different from any of the relationships we have in our daily lives. We connect to a blogger with the click of a mouse, we journey with them through the aspects of their lives they choose to share with us, and we comment when we are moved, inspired, or when we simply feel we have something to contribute.
But there is no face-to-face. It is not a relationship that takes place in the here-and-now. It is not a relationship in which there is a call and response. It takes place in the vacuum of electrical space, after all. And considering all this, it is amazingly gratifying.
Amazing that I can feel so close to Marta, across all these years (I haven't seen her since she left my 9th grade classroom), across all these miles (she just moved out-of-state), and across the life changes that have altered the very nature of our relationship from teacher to student morphing into peer to peer. For Marta has largely been the inspiration for me to start this blog in the first place, and if you nose around in her archives, you'll see why.
So really, this posting is about so much more than just chocolate cake. It's about going to Marta's blog and treating yourself to some really good writing and it's about being grateful for all my blogfriends: the ones I know about...and the ones I don't.
A toi, merci boucoup.
To all our blog friends - I'll have a piece of cake to that!
Posted by: Rachel Greig | June 13, 2008 at 04:00 AM
Hi Cath! Thank you so much for the sweet and supportive comment on my blog! I am definitely trying to follow your advice and "enjoy the ride." Thanks again for your kindness and I'm so glad that we're blogfriends! :)
Posted by: Kalyn | June 13, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Ms. Ed, WOW!!! thank you. what a compliment coming from someone i so admire. it's cute that my whole life since we met, i've been referring to 'ms. ed' as my hero and my favorite teacher and someone who truly changed my life. i am so thrilled we have kept in touch!
now that i'm grown up, you seem to get younger and younger! and i see that we have so much in common yet still i have so much i can learn from all of your wisdom.
am happy it's a lifelong friendship. best to you and enjoy the cake!
Posted by: marta | June 14, 2008 at 07:32 PM