Leap-Blogging, and How I Got Here

I stumbled into the O.C. by way of an email from my sister. She had come across a post at Diabetes Mine that she thought would be useful to me in my book research. She was right, of course, and I emailed Amy and had a great phone conversation with her about the challenges of being a parent with diabetes.

It was at Diabetes Mine that I discovered Six Until Me, and from there I stumbled upon Herman's Head, and by then I was hooked for sure. I lurked for a while, feeling a little voyeuristic, hazarding the occasional anonymous comment. But sooner or later I knew I'd be on board, and d-Blog day seemed like to right time to dive in, so here I am.

I thought myself very clever when I coined the term "Leap-Blogging" to define this act of following links from one blog to the next. Of course, a quick Google search for that term (176 hits) shows others beat me to it. Regardless, I have had a blast taking off from O.C. blogs to read others. I also enjoy taking guesses at the relationship between the writers - sort of like playing the game where you people watch and make up stories about what the people you see are doing. But that's a post for another day.

My first leap outside the O.C. circle was off of Herman's Head, to visit Anne, who's "Staredown at the Pool" made me laugh out loud, spraying diet coke on my keyboard. I'm not one to read parenting books, but if Anne wrote one (and I hope she does), I'd buy it in spades.

The problem with all this is, of course, the fact that it's sucking time out of my already crazy days! And "I was reading Anne Glamore's take on the PTA" does not qualify as a legitimate answer to my supervisor's question, "Kassie, how's it going with that task list?". So I'm limiting my meandering outside the O.C. to once a week (ha!). Next week, I am *so* getting lost in OCer Martha O'Connor's world!