Good Blogs

I read a lot of blogs in my feedreader. But I thought I’d take a minute and highlight a couple that I may not link or delicious or tweet about much but that I’m glad are out there. This isn’t comprehensive, of course; just a few off the top of my head.

First, of course, I should note that TheGuy has restarted his weblog. Woot! Looking forward to more content there.

Chris Clarke has been writing over at Creek Running North, now Coyote Crossing, for a long time. He also somewhat-recently started up The Clade, a community environmental blog. I cluster blogs in my feedreader under very loose categories, such as “Parenting Blogs,” “Mainstream Liberals,” (not necessarily a complimentary term, mind you), “Known Quantities” (my peeps) and so on. I have a cluster called “Literates” which I roughly mean to be particularly good writers. Clarke’s stuff goes here. It’s the sort of writing that i often don’t want to read as part of my normal daily scanning, because I’d rather sit down with his blog and a cup of tea and read it properly. Unfortunately what this means is that I don’t read it as often as I do other things, even though I enjoy it more.

Clarke pulled together a bunch of his writing about his dog Zeke into a book Walking with Zeke that is available at Lulu.com. I snagged a copy this week after he mentioned it in his Twitter feed. When there are easy and straightforward ways to signal support for quality indie bloggers, I try to remember to do so now and then.

Another weblogger I’m enjoying a great deal is Bed Timing, by the author of the book by the same name. She’s a child psychologist writing about what are better and worse developmental windows in which to attempt “sleep training” a child. Sleep is one of those “mommy war” issues — people have very strong opinions about what is and isn’t appropriate. I think Bed Timing does a good job, one of the better I’ve seen actually, of withholding judgment and just discussing a wide range of possibilities and approaches. She is similar to Ask Moxie, in this sense, although Moxie covers a wider range of parenting topics.

Not a personal blog, but I find The Big Picture at Boston.com to often have riveting photography. Here are the photos pulled together in the wake of Ted Kennedy’s passing.