Blogging Naked

There are many posts written where a blogger bares her soul.  Trashes her husband.  Depleats her morale.  Testifies to a crime.  Believes in a miracle. Reminisces about love.  Dreams about travel. Reveals a secret.  Hopes for a cure.  Rambles about green beans.

These are the posts we are drawn to, the ones we comment upon.  She tells all, and tells us she is telling all.  I admire her for doing it.  She makes no bones about the fact that she is laying it on the line.  The internet -- the blogosphere -- or more specifically, the mommy blogosphere (I don't like the term either, but it is what it is) embraces women who adopt a tell-all philosophy and blog naked.

I want to keep my clothes on,

thank you very much.

Me, the one with multiple blogs and published essays, is very private.  The kudos do go to the folks who let it all hang out, as they say.  There are multiple sites around the blogosphere that encourage and creatively display secrets.  There is no comparative outlet in the world to the mom-blogophere and the engines it employs to empower the women who are part of it.

And that rocks.

I'm still keeping my clothes on.

Each blogger has the inalienable right (I think it's in the blogger's constitution) to share whatever she wants.  If I don't like it, I click away.  I think that needs to apply to the right to leave out whatever she wants as well, to keep parts of her covered that she doesn't want to share, and not feel bad about it.  I've read posts where bloggers are critical of others who don't 'fess up.  That has to be OK. Of course we can blog whatever we want -- but there's a ravenous blogosphere ready to gobble up the good stuff (or is it the bad stuff?)  It's inviting to divulge, enticing to expose.  Because the deepest darkest secrets, like the biggest car crashes, get the most gapers - and we all want attention.

I believe I can 100% authentic without revealing everything.  I can be honest and funny without being mean.  I can be enlightened without telling secrets.  I can let you in and keep my clothes on.

Do you blog naked?  If so, sometimes I might just cover my eyes.

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Amy can also be found with most of her clothes on at Kvetch Blog and Your Jewish Mother.