A Yuletide Apocalypse

Well, an old friend and blogger extraordinaire, Barbara Ganley — known for her use of the blog as a tool in the classroom — has a fascinating post up here about blogging from a foreign country. Reminds me clearly of the hours of respite I found in the various internet cafés in San Isidro de El General (Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica) when I was in the city for the weekend in the fall. Also reminds me of internet cafés in Bhutan, where we once encountered a couple of kids playing some WWF wrestling game, swearing in English, yet clearly having no idea what they were saying. The lama with whom we were traveling was checking his email and may have been seen shaking his head morosely

So, reading her post on blogging gives me hope for my own improvement as a blogger — I at least have a clear goal in my head of what I want my posts to shape up to — whether I have the patience and persistence to apply the writing process to posts such as these that are purely done on MY time is to be seen.