The Monster in Your Closet

I’m subscribed to far more blogs than I can generally keep up on, but below are some of my favorites:

• Being Arindam — on wishing and hoping, but also doing
• Bright Strange Things – my real life bff and biznitch, on rocking you
• Byronic Man — on knowing exactly how to make this closet monster and many others (closet monsters and non alike) laugh, a lot
• Can you hear me now? — on storytelling, student life, and miscellaneous media
• Commentality — on finally, finally starting his own blog after writing, always, only the best comments ever!
• crazy dumbsaint of the mind — on life as an “Eco-Redneck, Breeder, Stitch-Witch, Knittiot Savant & Whoreticulturist Extraordinaire”
• The Daily Dose – on writing, mothering, living 
  
• From the Bungalow – on having a family that’s hard to define in a blurb, as well as the grace to embrace it all with love and humor
  
• Georgette Sullins’s Blog – on life, through generations
  
• How Can I Complain? – my blogging soulmate. bonded over lost moms and vampires, cinched it with a mutual love of andy samberg’s digital shorts
• Keeping it Real — on doing just that, with a lot of love and laughter
• Learn More Everyday – on teaching oneself to see and appreciate how full the world is of love and lovely things
  
• Lucid Dreams and Saturn Skies – on zombies, horror, and having a little compassion no matter how scary that might be
• The Lucky Mom — on life as an astronaut, or, a little more truthfully on my part, life as a lucky, thoughtful mom
• Mumblings of a Middle Aged Madwoman — on life, death, nursing, teaching, laughing, lamenting and loving, with wit and wisdom
• nascentnovelist – on writing, considering writing, and moving about considering writing
  
• notquiteold — on exactly what you’d think given the title, with a hefty dose of smiles
• Odds & Ends from Ermigal — on odds, ends and fun perspectives
• Peg-O-Leg’s Ramblings — on silliness illustrated with also silly but fantastic photo edits
• PissyKittysLitterBox – on telling things exactly as they are, even if that leaves people with the mistaken impression you don’t have a heart of gold
  
• QBG_Tilted Tiara – on unflinching honesty through a lens of immense compassion
• The Ramblings — on life, love, motherhood, with not nearly as much rambling as the blog’s name suggests
• The Ramblings of a Would-Be Writer — my sister, on writing, living and writing about living, doing so remarkably well for a “would-be” writer
• reinventing the event horizon — on rebuilding the past from its artifacts, and sharing those with a perfect balance of heart and intellect
• Registered Runaways — on, with unparalleled eloquence, making “gravel stones fertile” in “the shadows of Conservative Churchianity”
• renée a. schuls-jacobson’s blog — on life outside the confines of neatly divided file folders
• Running from Hell with El — on living, learning and writing, with equal parts heart and intellect
• Sarcastic Mama — on exactly what you’d expect! some parts sarcasm, some parts mama, all parts awesome
• She’s A Maineiac — on reaching straight to your heart with words so raw and open you forget there are even words involved, but also laughing, a lot
• Shoes on the Wrong Feet –
• Ten Minute Missive – twice-weekly reflections on life, healing and the beauty of struggling through hardships in both the hope and the reality of finding and bringing grace
• this man’s journey — on the miracles of day to day life, through beautiful pictures matched to beautiful words
• Transitioning Mom — on growing into your own skin even as you help your kids grow into theirs
• You Know it Happens at Your House Too — on Johnny Depp, momhood, and general hilarity
• Your Critic is Another Castle – on being a gamer. who is also a girl. and also awesome.