Thinking bloggers

Thank you thank you, kind bloggers who named me a thinking blogger! One of the best things about those posts (besides the traffic — I’m a hit whore) is finding new blogs I didn’t know about. In that spirit, here are the best blogs you might not know about it! (And also this forces me to narrow down my enormous feed list!) And I’m not going to let myself choose adoption blogs because there are too many of you that I adore and I just can’t narrow it to five.

1. My Beloved Becca — I know I link to her a lot so you’ve probably already clicked through. I pick her for two reasons: The first is that I love her love of pop culture and her smart take on it all and two because I know she’ll be annoyed by my choosing her so I had to do it. Heh. But she is a right smart cookie and she doesn’t blog about adoption (because she hasn’t adopted) or writing (although she is a writer) but she blogs about a lot of other stuff I like reading about including books, television, Hollywood gossip and the New York Times and stuff I don’t really much care about like the Red Sox.

2. Kidneys and Eyes — Julia’s kids have “an eye disorder called Ocularmotor Apraxia and Autosonomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney disease.” Gage just went through a kidney transplant (with flying colors, I might add!) and Quinn will need one in the future. Julia’s discussion of parenting through the maze of special need/special medicine is inspiring and I’ve learned a lot about every day mothering because of her grace in extraordinary circumstances.

3. Rachel’s Tavern — I know, I know, I just linked to her. Call it a cheat if you like but if she’s not in your bloglines, she should be. So there.

4. Abortion Clinic Days — If you care about adoption reform, you have to care about reproductive choice. You don’t necessarily need to be like me (you know, rabidly pro-choice) but when we’re talking about pregnancy crisis, it’s important to keep our eyes on every option a woman has. This blog illuminates the complexity of abortion rights with heart, humility and bravery. I adore them.

5. Kali_Mama — This is a woman here in town. She’s an artist and she’s a mom and she has three amazing little boys. I admire the brave forays she makes into the deepest recesses of her artistic mind and her nifty knitting. Read her for fun! Read her for inspiration. She’s a thinking blogger with style! Only you can’t comment over there unless you have a xanga account. Sorry about that.

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1. One-issue voter
2. This is my boss
3. Are you reading Julia?
4. Curious
5. This is for Rob