Daily Prompt: Share the Love
Tell us about another blogger who has influenced your own online journey.
The most influential blogger in my online journey was Melissa of Writing for Daisies. She is first and foremost a mother and loves her children so much that I suspect she has left blogging for them. But she has even more to give. She came into my orbit way back when I first started a blog called Technicolor Day Dreams that featured my feeble efforts to say something pertinent (at least to family).
Melissa’s last Writing for Daisies post in March was a sincere “Thank you” to the thousands who followed her. She doesn’t say so, but it sounds like a Farewell to me.
I miss her. I miss her gentle prods to keep going. I miss her expectation that great things are ahead and her promises that wonderful surprises await in the blog-us-fear. I miss her fascinating, can’t-put-down posts. To follow Melissa was to wish you could meet her in person.
And, even after she was posting less and less often, she still found time to comment on my efforts, quoting certain lines as if something there was worth savoring and saving.
Melissa was a journalist, a reporter, an expert in her field. Her opinions mattered to me way back then, and would still. No, I never met her in real time, but I can list her among the best teachers I ever had.
If you are reading this, Melissa, Thank YOU!
I hope you and your children fare well and that you will come back to us soon.
Wish I had read her posts, too, and followed her. She sounds like quite a wonderful person. I love that blogging puts us in contact with so many amazing people, like you, Dor, and it fascinates me that we can get to care so much about people we’ve never met in person and probably will never meet, and that we miss them when they leave blogging and we lose contact with them.
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How utterly beautiful. If she comes back to the “blog-us-fear” (which I found hilarious), you’ll have to let us all know.
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This is such a lovely post for Melissa. I have not had the pleasure of reading her blog yet. I hope she does come back some day to write again.
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What a touching post, Dor.
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You are so right Susan, and your blog was the very first I loved and still love. I hope some day we will meet in real time too.
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Glad you like my take on the blog-us-fear. And thanks for the lovely comment on my mentor blogger, Melissa. I will definitely let everyone know if she comes back. 🙂
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I hope Melissa comes back too and I know you would love her and her blog.
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Thanks Patti. That Daily Prompt really got me thinking.
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What a wonderful tribute!
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Sweet tribute to your mentor. Hopefully she and her family are doing well.
You need to send me an e-mail and let me know where you’re located. Maybe Susan, Patti and I could make a trip to see you – or we could meet “halfway”! Wouldn’t that be fun!
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For sure! I am already getting excited! Will send you an email right now. 🙂
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I know the feeling; I too have met some wonderful friends through blogging that I will never meet in person. But it is great fun to get to know them and look forward to reading their thoughts with each new post.
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I miss Melissa too! I too followed her blog and she followed and often commented on mine. She is the real deal. I only hope she decides to start blogging again some time soon.
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I’m so glad you followed Melissa’s blog too mama. You know what I am trying to say about her. 🙂
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