Comments on: Two Worlds Collide

By: Rick Booth

Rick Booth — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:17:46 +0000

I’m Dave’s journalist friend (see copy). I adored this piece, because it calls attention to something I’d long taken for granted: we who write professionally always ASSUME we’re in a storefront window; it’s never far from our minds. I’m working on a subject-specific blog (not up yet), and to read it literally you’d think I was a Hun. I assuredly am not.

A pal said not long back, “I love my wife for her two best qualities, humility and grace.”

Funny, all this time I thought your name was Ellen, not Grace.

By: writeathome

writeathome — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:31:16 +0000

Hi Ellen,

I think you are a wonderful blogger too. Just be yourself, but I do agree with Helen that if you feel uncomfortable having certain people read things, don’t post them.

Write on,

Carol

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:51:22 +0000

Well thats it, I am not posting anymore. You mean people actually read these things? LOL I love the way you write Ellen. Besides some just aren’t going to get it. My mom is like why would you wanna share about that! (she’s just jealous she didnt think of it first.) I think your great! Keep it up.

Larry

By: journeytomom

journeytomom — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:49:10 +0000

I agree with both Helen and hockamama. You write wonderfully and I have seen nothing to be concerned about. But I also know the feeling you express. Many of my friends and family read my blog, so sometimes I have to be careful what I write, especially regarding my parents. My mom, especially, can be easily offended. sigh. But, for the most part, I choose to be myself. I hope you will continue with this wonderful blog.
Peace.

By: hockamama

hockamama — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:13:45 +0000

Ah, Ellen, the dilemma. My mama reads my blog, and I imagine some others who know the flesh me. I understand the scrutiny of which you speak, and the wariness that goes with it. However, You are a wonderful writer and I feel that I know you from reading your prose. You need not be nervous.

By: Helen Losse

Helen Losse — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:50:39 +0000

Dear Ellen,

I know it is easy to think of a blog as personal diary, but it is not. Everything put on the internet, including comments, is there to stay. Somebody somewhere has archived everything, or at least we must behave as though that were so, beacuse it could be at any time.

I know you only from your blog, but I like you and see you as a kind, sensitive, giving woman. I don’t think I’ve read anything you should be ashamed of. But we do have to say to ourselves, “Do I want — to read this?” Only you can answer that question. If the answer is no, don’t post it.

Love, Helen