I have written many times about how the friends blogging has brought into my life. Some I have met in person, some I only know through the taps of my laptop's keyboard. One of those wonderful friends is Priscilla aka Wheelchair Mommy. A fellow blogger here in Austin, she has become one of my dearest friends online and off. In honor of that friendship and the many we have developed through blogging, we have decided to share the love.On Saturdays, we will each choose a blogger to spotlight. And we would like you to share along with us! The rules are VERY Simple!
Share a post (past or present) that you have written about another blogger. It can NOT be about you!
For my first Saturday Love, I am featuring Unknown Mami.
In the late 90's, I lived in San Francisco to attend grad school. As most students are, I was poor. I worked a LOT of jobs. One of those jobs was working as an usher at the theater associated with the school. Claudya worked there, as well, and we became fast friends. She was kind, funny, and generous. She even helped me sign with her agent. I liked her so much and was sad to leave her when life pulled us to New York.Now this was before social media and the days of being online all the time. Our lives went on and grew in different cities and different ways. We fell out of touch. Fast forward to the summer of 2009.I started blogging. It was a reaction to very tough summer full of change and a precipitous viewing of "Julie & Julia". I knew nothing. I was actually shocked when I received my first comment from someone not related to me. Blogging wasn't yet a community.The other thing that came into my life that summer was FaceBook. Alone in a new city, I instantly began scrolling for friends (and frankly playing all of those stupid games). I came upon Claudya's name and instantly friended her. So much had changed for each of us. Both of us were mothers now. We shared news of our kids and lives as moms. Later as we reconnected I sent her a message that I had started a blog. I thought she would think that I had lost my mind. Instead, she wrote back saying the same thing.And thus, the community began. Her blog Unknown Mami was a few months older than mine and she had begun to learn the ropes. This is before we used FB and Twitter and Instagram and Pinterest. If you liked a blogger, you followed them. You read their blog daily and commented and they would comment back. And we gave awards. Claudya gave me my first award. At that stage of my life, it might as well as been the Oscar. It gave me the desire and encouragement to keep writing and here I am almost five years later.So Claudya aka (not-so)
Unknown Mami (to me) was my friend IRL who became a bloggy mentor who remains my friend in every life. If you don't know her blog, you should. Every Sunday, she hosts on of my favorite memes, "Sundays in My City" which encourages us to find the cool things right around us; basically see our own city like a tourist would.Now for the gringas out there like me, it is pronounce "mommy" not "mammy". She writes about motherhood, life in San Francisco, and finding her path post children (I can relate). She doesn't write there everyday anymore, she's really busy writing for MamasLatinas but I love it whenever she does. Please head over her way and share the love! Trust me, she won't be disappointed.
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