Yesterday I tried out Google's new blogsearch feature by plugging in "place" and one of the first sites that came up was Ronni Bennett's blog, "A Sense of Place: Finding a Place to Call Home." In May she decided to start this blog to document her recent decision to leave New York City after 30-some years and to find a less expensive part of the country to live in. Ronni has been keeping another blog for a while now, Time Goes By: What It's Really Like to Get Older; the new blog builds on this one by focusing on what it's like to have to move later in life after having been somewhere for so long. There's a particular energy that comes with a new blog, especially when it's clear some important personal work is getting done in the writing. I looking forward to reading about her transition to Portland, ME, a place that I have good memories of visiting.
It was nice to cross paths in the comments with some other familiar faces--Fred and Rana. It's no wonder they would find common ground with Ronni's blogging.
Pleased
I'm very familiar with Ronni's blog AS TIME GOES BY - I am a regular reader of it, and sometimes a commenter there, tracking it in my newsreader. I look forward to reading this part of her life here...
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Tim: your link to Ronni's blog takes you to a former post of yours about Portland...
Thanks, though, for the link. My mother is herself considering a move to Maine to be closer to my sister and the kids and I'll definitely point her toward Ronni's blog!
A Sense of Place
Thank you, Tim, for the nice "review." I haven't updated A Sense of Place much lately; it's really boring waiting a for an apartment to sell and kind of stifles useful thought about changing places. As events move along, however, I'll have a lot more to say both before and after the move. I'm eager for this new adventure.
Thank you again...
Ronni Bennett