Yes folks, I had a call from the one and only Liz Strauss the other weekend. A week prior to that I had decided to take her up on the “Call me a Bad blogger” “challenge(?)” she’s had going on her Successful Blog site for some time now and sent her her the “Call me a BAD blogger” email then settled back to whatever I was doing before but with a strong sense of an interesting conversation to come.
I wasn’t disappointed.
Did you ever come across someone that you never met before and just seemed to pick up some “never ending” conversation that has been going on as if you’ve always known each other? That’s what talking to Liz was like. And whatever I may have expected the conversation would turn out to be, perhaps the kind of formatted, sort of scripted , interview type of thing where I was asked a lot of typical questions that I had to come up with answers for…I was delightfully surprised and should have known better for that matter.
For over period of an hour our conversation ranged from one thing to another, rambling here and there like two friends out for a day in the woods heading off every which way to marvel at all the great things they found hiding behind the trees and underneath the leaves and such. Then dragging each other hither and thither so they could see what they had discovered. From our running wheelchair joke to where we might be in a year or so as far as our respective blogs are concerned, we spent most of the time talking and listening at the same time as if we knew our visit would be a short one and had to make up for lost time (and that ain’t easy to do believe me). I had a ball. heck, I even showed up on one of her “A Blogger a Day” posts along with Kent Newsome of Newsome.org. Good company all around and although I haven’t had the chance to wander through Kent’s blog yet, I definitely intend to.
In the end I was sorry that our conversation had to come to it’s eventual end however, because Liz doesn’t like to leave any conversation finished (and she does this so well as anyone knows who has ever stopped by one of her blogs), we ended our conversation unfinished as well and open to continue at a later date.
And I sincerely hope it does.
PS: As I said I would I put up the BAD logo in my sidebar but of course I had to add my own twist to it. After all…I never really excelled at doing anything “typically”. Have a great day!
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July 24th, 2007 at 10:39 am
An interesting challenge.
July 24th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Hi MotherPie,
And welcome to my end of the world.
I probably shouldn’t have said “challenge” in the post since it’s most definitely not any sort of challenge at all. Liz is very easy to talk to and absolutely does not put on any airs in the least. In fact, she’s one of the nicest down to earth people I’ve ever had the pleasure of talking with, on the phone or in the comment section of her blog. If you haven’t been over to Successful (and outstanding) Blog(ers), I highly recommend it.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:50 am
Hey Kirk,
What fun it was to read this. I especially like the image of hither and thither. Are you Hither and I’m Thither or is it vice versa? Too fun!!
You’re right! The conversation is never over. You know where I am.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Hi Liz,
Yes I do and glad I am of that too! (the problem with written word is that you can’t hear the affected accent)
We can switch back and forth between Hither and Thither anytime we like. Keeps any onlookers confused…like this:
Hi! I’m Thither and this is Hither.
I thought you were Hither.
That was an hour ago, now I’m Thither.
Like Calvin Ball, it’s always so much better when you can make up the rules as you go along yes? We ought to do it again sometime. When you coming to Vermont?