A nice piece that brings blogging back to a central place of importance. I discovered earlier this year, when I allowed Sasha to take a little facebook break, that my blog was not the central space for Sasha's voice. In fact, everything has been so carefully routed through facebook that Sasha was almost unable to function as she was cut off from her audience. However, that is a merely a technical aspect of blogging and not the personality and raison d'etre for the blog itself. The voice is the key. My only decision now, is how do I own the persona behind the blog and then ultimately, what limits will I put on Sasha's productivity so that Dr J remains the puppet master. Or do I sacrifice Dr J so that Sasha can do her thing. I pay tribute to those established bloggers who have been at this a lot longer than I and who have embraced changes of which I can only dream. They make my journey easier.

Essa does it again. Brilliant as always. I gave up poetry in favor of the more commercial song lyrics route. I pretty much sucked at both but at least I got paid for the lyrics. As Marilyn, I love her because she was for the most part, a real size woman and not a stick figure like Angelina. I wonder if Marilyn would have made it in today's Hollyweird. Probably not. But without Marilyn, we would have never had thousands of shocking renditions of Happy Birthday, Mr President and ground air vents would have been a nuisance rather than a tool for seduction.