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(Note: I use the term "frog" above playfully, and with all the affection and admiration one could imagine.)

I may cut back a bit on posting this fall as I become more busy with work and training for another marathon.  In any case, I cannot imagine not continuing to regularly read and write posts and comments. 

I have learned a lot from blogging, and still have much to learn.  My HTML skills still leave much to be desired.  There are practices, terms, etiquette and folkways that I am still discovering.

I've been at this blogging business for about three months now.  I started because even though I knew very little about blogs, there were some pent-up things I wanted to say in response to what I was reading and hearing in the Anglo-Saxon culture at large regarding France.  A lot of what was being said and written about France in the press and the media seemed to be based on ignorance and sometimes even bigotry.  Being an obsessed francophile (and with good reason) I was tired of silently enduring what has amounted to a smear campaign.  Once in the blogosphere, I branched out a bit from there, but France seems to be the one common denominator for the incoming and outgoing traffic on my blog.

The greatest benefit of blogging has been reading the reflections of so many interesting, witty, articulate people who generously spend time documenting their thoughts and lives and making it public.  I treasure my blogroll and there are several others that I need to add to it.  And even though I have to live in the midwestern US to ply my trade while my heart remains in France, I enjoy experiencing vicariously the lives of those who are presently living in my "deuxieme patrie." 

And how about you?  When did you start blogging and why?

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