Blog Noshin’

Serendipity!  I was checking my email this morning and found a message from WordPress Dude.  Actually, it was from my handy-dandy WordPress application.  I like to envision that there is a tiny little WordPress man in there firing off meaningful communication about my posts.  In my mind, he’s sort of a kind but straight-shooting newspaper man version of Kermit THE Frog + Mark Twain + James Qwilleran from the “Cat Who” series, but my inner geek reminds me he’s just an auto-responder.  Back to the story.  

There was an alert for a ping back from Blog Nosh magazine.  Hmmm.  My interest was piqued. BlogNosh.com is an online magazine highlighting blog posts from here, there and everywhere.  I’ve enjoyed reading it, and the designer in me likes how they’ve carried the whole noshin’ concept throughout.  An added bonus is that the site is edited by real people–other bloggers who also scour their in-boxes and the internet for “delicious” content.  I’ve submitted a couple of posts to various channel editors over the last few months.

So, I was checking my email this morning.  Low and behold, WordPress Dude delivers the announcement that BlogNosh.com is linking to me.  Ding.  Has an article been published?

Yes!  My article about Darfur and the Beijing Olympics has been posted front and center.  There is a collection of someones out there, and at least one of them is reading my “stuff.”  Thanks, Blog Nosh, for the encouragement and the needed motivation to keep on writing.

Oops.  There goes baby BabyGirl’s nursing alarm.  My “I’m a writer” ego-trip is now over.  I’m back in the bus to more pressing alerts of the non-homogenized variety.