“It’s all about community. Journaling is a lot of fun, but blogging is
a social thing. I have friends across the world I never would have met
if it were not for blogging,” says Cruz, who homeschools her children.
“In the community I live in, most everybody works. The Internet has
taken over as the coffee klatch of the 1950s. There are people in that
box with lives, dreams and hopes that become important to you.”
Beckey Brumfield, 29, mother of a newborn and a toddler from Ladera Ranch, started her blog, Hippo Brigade, two years ago.
“My
husband and I were sitting around one afternoon, and he said, ‘You’re
funny. You can write. You should do a blog,’” says Brumfield, who
writes mainly about her domestic life and raising her children. So what
does her husband think of her blog?
“Sometimes he thinks I
over-share,” laughs Brumfield. “When I tell him what I’m planning to
write, sometimes he’ll ask, ‘Are you really going to put that out
there?’ Whenever he’s iffy, it’s the one that gets the most response.”
Music
teacher Gail Bentley says that she has been pleasantly surprised at the
reception she has gotten since she began blogging about children and
music on her Web site, Bentley Music Academy, last year. Her blog is
the second-most-visited part of her Web site, after the home page, she
says.
The 34-year-old Irvine resident has two sons, ages 1
and 4, and said she often blogs in answer to questions she gets from
other parents in her music classes, like whether or not a child is old
enough to start playing an instrument.
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