posted by KWiz on Friday Favorites

Here they are…Enjoy! 

One of the best things about doing a weekly favorites post is that you get to read posts that you would have loved to write yourself, but didn’t have the time to get to.  This week, the paparazzi took a picture of Tyra Banks in a bathing suit looking a little heavier than she did when she was on the runway (go figure).  The media ran with that story.  But Andrea Amador of “The Juicy Woman” thankfully ran in the opposite direction in her post “Tyra Banks:  The Juicy Woman’s Role Model For A Healthy Self-Esteem.”  Great post for those who struggle with issues of weight (or know someone who does).

If you are a mother, how many times have you been at the grocery store with your child and a complete stranger tries to give you advice about how to raise your child?  Or, are you the one who gives unsolicited advice to mothers when you see them out with their children?  At “The Shizzle Life,” Lisa (I think) tells her readers how detrimental it can be to offer unsolicited parenting advice to others in “Why I Think Parenting Debates Rank Up There With Horse Manure.”  As she says, “You never know when you may have to eat your words.”

Death is a very personal issue, and each person handles its resultant grief differently.  But “Chatty Crone” provides for her readers a very personal look inside her own experience of losing both of her parents on the same day (they lived in different cities) and how she so graciously and courageously handled her own grief and pain in “Death x 2 = January 30, 2003.”  This post might help someone else who is going through the pain of losing a loved one.

I love Wendy’s posts at “eMoms At Home” because she likes to examine how to bring the most value to her readers.  One thing she is concerned about is ensuring that what she writes “accurately conveys” her message to her readers.  Take a look at “Blogging Ethics:  Should We Be Congruent?”, as she reflects on this issue using a real life blogging experience she recently had with two male bloggers.  This is a very important issue for all of us bloggers, especially those of us who take what we do here seriously.

Finally, here is a comic from “bLaugh” about understanding women (or not understanding women) that may relate to Wendy’s post above.  Actually, I’ve provided the actual comic, but “bLaugh” has lots of corny cartoons, all related to blogging in some way.  I just figured I’d add a little humor to the mix…

Enjoy, and let me know what you think of this weeks “Favorites!”