What Ven Thinks!

Anyone who knows me, even for a second, will figure out that I love to read. I always have a book with me, no matter where I am at any given moment. I’m the one at the stoplight, book in hand, trying to finish a paragraph before the light turns green. It’s become a game among family and friends. “What book does she have with her now?”

I also love people. I’m fascinated by them. I like to watch them and hear their stories.

These two parts of me are what draw me to blogs. A good blog satisfies my desire to read and gives me an opportunity to peek into someone’s life and learn a bit about who they are. And, sometimes, the really good ones teach me a something about myself.

Today, I’d like to share with you a few of the blogs that I’ve enjoyed reading. I

Reading blogs on the internet is a lot like panning for gold. You have to sift through a lot of grit and sand to find the good stuff. If you don’t give up, you’ll find a lot of gold flakes that make the search worthwhile. Every once in a while, you get lucky and find a gold nugget.

Blogging Without A Blog is one of those gold nuggets.

The blog is written by Barbara Swafford. She describes herself as a wife, mother and grandmother who created the blog as a place to record the lessons she’s learned from blogging. In the process, she has built so much more. She has created a community of wonderful people who come there, not only to learn from Barbara, but to share their own