May 16, 2010
May 16, 2010
In five days we will be without my father for five months.
In two days my older daughter will be 19. (She just found out that she got into the college of her choice—and with a substantial scholarship!)
Bitter sweet.
On this day I have been moved to write again.
Was I silent because I needed to stay in place long enough to be comforted by the stillness?
Was I silent because I could find no path to take?
Was I silent because sometimes silence shows more movement than movement itself?
I’m not sure what I will write about, but that’s okay—that’s what I want. I have no agenda or mission. I feel liberated. I am liberated.
I will be as the peonies that I love in full bloom: bold, open and layered.
I'm a mom, a blogger, and a Ph.D. student, and I need your help. I'm doing a study about why women blog, and you have been selected at random to participate in a short survey about what motivates you to blog and what you get out of blogging.
I hope you will take it by clicking this link. Please do not forward the link. (If the link does not show up in your browser when you click on “clicking this link,” you can click here or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/231228/women-bloggers Please do not distribute the link.
Thanks in advance for your help. Feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions.
Gina M. Chen
Ph.D. student
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University
215 University Place
Syracuse, NY 13244-2100
Posted by: Gina Chen | May 17, 2010 at 04:48 PM
Nice to see you back again!
Posted by: Geo | May 18, 2010 at 08:36 PM
Gina, could you contact me at me email regarding this survey.
Thanks, Geo. I appreciate your coming back and your comment. I'm working on my first "real" blog post in a while. It feels good to be writing again.
Posted by: Laura of Rebellious Thoughts of a Woman | May 19, 2010 at 03:24 PM