Okay, normally I’d be putting up a Wordless Wednesday picture and making the rounds today, but as I’ve put off blogging for the last 5 days to finish a book series (you should read the Twilight series if you haven’t already…especially if your a woman!) so today I wanted to dig right into catching up and conversing.

I was just driving home from taking my son to school and I heard such a funny song that I started laughing out loud in my car. I was flipping stations, in an effort to avoid talking and commercials, when I heard this country song describing an adult male living at home, 5′3″, overweight who starts to describing himself “online.” I busted up at the picture in my head of the same guy on My Space who was 6′5″, 6 pack abs, rich, and the catch phrase of “I’m so much better online.” I don’t know if Brad Paisley wrote the song or just sings it but the author should get a 5 star comedy rating for the lyrics.

It got me thinking about my recent push to make my blog more reflective of who I am and how easy it is to use technology today to boost your confidence. Sometimes the boosts are real and other times they’re not like the song, but either way there’s a power there. The first time I had a professional writer tell me that I was a great writer I flushed with the compliment. I enjoy sharing things, I always have but I never thought of myself as a good writer before that comment and it really boosted my confidence. Then I got a great review for a poem I submitted to an online poem organization and the response to publish it was so positive that it boosted me too. Neither of these things would have happened without the power of the Internet. Okay, maybe that’s too extreme to know but I do know that I wouldn’t have been beating down doors pursuing a writing career so it’s unlikely I would ever have received feedback about things I’d written.

My husband jokes with me that I must have taken some communication or speaking classes in my former life. He says I’ve missed my calling as a public speaker. I’m not sure about that but I do love to talk! Sharing and presenting is a bonus for me. But I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t received some warm feedback from many people in many places when I’ve shared my thoughts in text. It’s part of the reason he pushed me so hard to start blogging I think. He seemed to think people might actually read or even care about things I might have to say or share. I thought he was nuts but then I come across fun surprises like this:

“I’ve a passion for Books and keep looking for good articles. Today, I checked if I could find more info by entering ‘health parenting’ in Google and found this:”

The result is some text from one of my articles. I was a bit dumbfounded. I don’t know who the author of the blog is but to say it was a boost to have someone stumble across something I’d written with this description is an understatement. I mean, someone was actually out looking for something good, found something I wrote and is now asking for feedback/discussion on it. That was cool. No, that IS cool.

Here’s to things better online. *grin*

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