I have a cyclical love-hate relationship with blogs and social media networks in general.
Here are the phases:
- Discovery: Gorging on great content and conversation, meeting new people. All is good.
- Silence: People get busy, fall silent.
- Spam: Bots and “brands” flow into the network and clutter my feeds with crap.
- Despair: I feel like the social network (and some blogs) have become an echo chamber of low-quality content
- Rediscovery: I find new blogs, start new conversations, and the cycle begins again.
I am currently in stage 5: rediscovery.
Here are the blogs (new and old) that I am excited about currently.
The Jenny Journey
Jennifer is actually one of my neighbors! When I am not bumping into her at the Cedar Springs Tap House brunch, I’m keeping up with her excellent travel photography.
I recommend:
Probably This
Probably This is food porn a food and wine blog created by Beau and Matt, a lovely couple out of New Orleans. They specialize in “moody” food pictures – a style I’ve recently seen on the Starbucks menus in the area.
I recommend:
Jakey On…
Jakey is a nightlife celebrity back in Minneapolis. Jakey’s blogs are sporadic but in a long-form comedic style which I haven’t seen in many other places. It’s basically Girls: Minneapolis Edition.
I recommend:
Ware is the Vodka
This is a Dallas lifestyle blog from Sevi Ware. She does a much better job of highlighting Dallas events than I do. Sevi also has some fiction pieces on her blog, which is pretty unique.
I recommend:
- 3 Strategies to Tackling Vulnerabilities as a Millennial
- Diversity Chic: Kaia F.I.T.
Style By Emily Henderson
Emily is a HGTV interior decorator who had a show called Secrets from a Stylist. Although I’ve never watched the show, I have been a loyal reader of her blog for a long time.
It’s essentially the best of a HGTV interior design show in blog form.
I recommend:
- How to Mix Multiple Rugs in the Same Room
- The Guide to a Well Hung Gallery Wall (Which I used here to create our picture gallery!)
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