Comments on: That’s Me In The Corner

By: GraceD

GraceD — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:40:00 +0000

Thank you for this post. I was getting all worked up about the BlogHerDrama, then your Balm of Gilead writing put me gently, softly, quietly at rest.

Having said all that, there are not enough serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors in the world that would have helped me cope with the intensity of BlogHerDrama. As I mentioned on Jennster's, perhaps we need another natural disaster to blog about so we can get our stuff in perspective.

(And HAVING SAID THAT that natural disaster will probably be an earthquake in my neighborhood. So, everyone outside Northern California, start setting up a disaster blog for me so I can maintain my daily piece of anti-oxidant in the form of chocolate. We will need many bars of those - along with diapers, drinking water and ice for medicine and cold beer - when we head into the shelters)

Peace love and respect to you HBM
xo

By: Mom101

Mom101 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:48:00 +0000

Man I go away for week and miss the best post ever.

I heart-love you back.

And as I told you, I was int he same baby boat last year, only with a mama to help me out so I can only imagine how sidelined you felt. If it's any consolation, you seemed perfectly present and attentive and wonderful. It's only on looking back that you think shit, I was totally out of it wasn't I.

Motherhood. Bitch that she is.

By: nonlineargirl

nonlineargirl — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:31:00 +0000

Your post has me realizing how dumb it is that I didn’t approach you. Every time I saw you, you looked absorbed in discussion, and I wasn’t sure how to break in to what I was sure was a deep and meaningful encounter. Next year I hope to do better, not just with you, but with anyone who looks too busy to be bothered.

By: Owlhaven

Owlhaven — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:14:00 +0000

Wish I would have come and said Hi to you.

Mary, mom to 10

By: Mrs. Flinger

Mrs. Flinger — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:47:00 +0000

I’m wishing I had not pushed my own insecurities on my own conversations with you remembering my own transition to two babies. I’m wishing I was just able to say all those things, you’re beautiful, you’re amazing and oh my hell what a wonderful job you are doing because I mean all of it. I wish I was able to say those things to you without feeling my own guilt of people long long ago that I got upset with and I’m wishing I could sit at the pool with you because sometimes It’s ok to not say anything at all but hug.

You’re awesome and even if I ever so briefly and ever so awkwardly was able to meet you, I’m thankful for it.

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:54:00 +0000

I found your blog because of the NYT photo (Maria from Immoral Matriarch posted it the other day). I gasped when I saw it, because I have vowed not to miss BlogHer next year, even though I will be swinging a 7-month-old from my boob in many public places.

Thanks for capturing the magical and less-than-perfect moments of BlogHer. They remind me a lot of the magical and less-than-perfect aspects of blogging, motherhood and life, in general.

By: Blogversary

Blogversary — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:21:00 +0000

I feel like for the next few weeks, I have to qualify my comments for blogHer-relate posts, by saying I was not there.

Nonetheless, I have been in the same situation at a conference for my career-field, which is all women (Deaconesses). And, I felt most if not all the emotions you did. You words ring true.

I appreciate your candor and your son is blessed to have you as his mommy.

By: excavator

excavator — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:28:00 +0000

Great post. How do you write with such power? ("Being a mother in real life is not the same thing as playing one one the internet" and "all of the vulnerabilities that roll onto the screen so easily don't play so comfortably on a real life stage."

Your voice is so true, and dead-on-target.

I think going to Blogher really is an act of courage in a way, for just the reasons you mentioned. And going with a newborn, after traveling with one, well that makes me quail just to think of it.

Thank you for being willing to be vulnerable, and then to write the truth about it.

By: JCK

JCK — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:43:00 +0000

This was just an exquisite post.

I wish that I had stopped to speak with you during the conference. I remember you so well with your baby boy draped across your shoulder. I kept wanting to say BRAVO for you coming with your child – albeit a very different experience from your last BlogHer conference.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:23:00 +0000

I could have written huge portions of this post (well, who am I kidding, I would have done so far less eloquently!). I felt THE SAME. Exact same. Except I missed so much more. I was actually in AWE of you for being there, for pushing through and going to all the sessions and parties and not letting the "having a baby" keep you from it, like I did. Still, I walked away from BlogHer feeling the same, like I was on the outside looking in. But yet, also loving everyone in the community and my buds best of all.

BlogHer rocks.

(WHY didn't I say hi?? I'm still kicking myself.)