So once a month, I share the love and point you to a blog you should be reading. If you want to join in, write a blog post about why you love someone else’s blog and leave your link in the comments.
This month, I’m pointing you towards ABDPBT.
Anna is snarky. Very snarky, in fact, in some mummyblogger circles, she is one of the most disliked women on the Internet.
I think her blog is fantastic however and her take on mummyblogging is what we need to see more of. Snark and honest truth, rather than the culture of silence and refusal to talk about white elephants.
Anna blogs about the business of mummyblogging, including doing things like making us think about trust capital and our actual worth. Every post that makes me question what I do and how I do it, is in my mind, priceless.
Her blog is set up with 4 distinct categories – I receive all of them in my reader and enjoy all four. There is ABDPBT, Commodity Fetishism, Personal Finance and Tech – each one deals with something different and while personal finance has never been my favourite thing, her posts there on the business of mummyblogging are always something I look forward to.
I’ve found most aspects of Anna’s blog incredibly worthwhile, especially as we’re running the AusBlogCon next year, her sharp honest breakdowns of the US conferences have given Brenda and I things to discuss and also things that we hope to avoid happening to us.
Anna might not be your thing and that’s fine. But I think honesty is always going to be something we need to read more of, even if some mummybloggers find that honesty incredibly hard to swallow.
I recommend her blog to every mummyblogger. Reading ABDPBT lets me know which things I need to be avoiding doing and lets me learn from the mistakes of other mummybloggers – especially as the US is a few years ahead of the Australian blogosphere.
And you know if you end up on Anna’s shit list, not only have you fucked up big time, but that you’ve made it big in the mummyblogging world. Her shit list is NOT something we should aspire to be on.
Read her.
Image is taken from Anna’s header.
Other people playing along:
Toni suggests Mid 30s Life
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16 responses to “Sharing the love #2”
This month I have linked to a blog written by a Human Rights Advocate and member of the Stolen Generation. Blak and Black isn’t easy reading but it is well worth reading.
http://frogpondsrock.com/2010/11/sharing-the-love-2/
Also I have been reading Anna for a while now and she is a very good writer.
I enjoy his blog, his writing stays with you, doesn’t it?
It makes you think of all the things that we don’t say in this society of ours.
I’d like to thank you for sharing her blog with me. It gives me things to laugh and roll my eyes at, and also things to consider.
Blog for the month for me is Jen at http://blaghag.com 🙂 Starter of boobquake, young feminist, scientist, atheist and skeptic. And totally cool 🙂
Oh cool, I joined in *boobquake* I will go and check her out now 🙂
I enjoyed boobquake! I’ll have to go and have a look at her 🙂
Thanks for the link Veronica. Looks interesting. I’m joining in today too, sharing one of my favorite British blogs:
http://www.wanderlustlust.com/2010/11/sharing-love.html
Yay! Thankyou for sharing and I love London City Mum.
I’m also adding one of my faves, http://midthirtieslife.blogspot.com/
She’s an Aussie currently living in London.
Her posts make me laugh.
Thanks so much for the shout out, Veronica! I really appreciate it. Such nice things. The Australians are so much nicer to me than than many of the Americans or, especially the Canadians. Wonder why that is? Hah!
Maybe because we’re more balanced about things? Or maybe because none of us Aussie bloggers are big enough yet to land ourselves in trouble! Hehehe.
Veronica, I totally agree. Hey Anna – now there’s a cool tagline for your next header – “I’m big in Australia!”
I’m not a mummy blogger, but you’ve sparked my interest and I’m heading over to ABDPBT right now.
P.S. I totally forgot about sharing the love. I’ll get my share post up tomorrow.
Yay! I’m looking forward to your post 🙂
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