(Re) Chic

I just finished reading this article  by Rebecca Thorman about how Bloggers are not writers.  And while I see her point that to some extent many Bloggers are not writers they are simply people jumping on the social media train I think you'll find that there are quite a few blogs out there whose authors are truly writers.   If a writer is simply someone who commits his or her thoughts and feelings to words I think that there is an entire blogosphere full of writers.  I read a number of blogs who do not write to receive comments from hundreds of people or who are trying to self-promote with their blogs.  They write simply to send their thoughts into the void.  Maybe they get a comment, maybe they don't.  But they write simply to write for the therapy of it.  And I think that is a true writer.  Someone who puts their thoughts or feelings into words for their own sake, not necessarily for someone else's.   "We posit ourselves into believing that we’re taking down t

While I know that everyone and their brother probably wrote their New Years Resolution blog weeks ago I've been thinking more and more about mine.   We did this activity at work where we were supposed to write both personal and professional goals and in the coming weeks we're supposed to work in our 1:1s to make them come together.   The one that I want to talk about here is this: "I want to be more positive about my position (as in stop being negative).  I want to feel that I am needed and that my work is valued." But the more I think about it the more I'm wondering if this is even an attainable goal.  Goals are supposed to be measurable.  And something with the words "feel" and "valued" doesn't really create many measurable guidelines.   Secondly, what does it mean to "feel needed?"  I know what I meant in this instance because I wrote them 2 days ago when we did this exercise.  However, when we evaluate these th