Comments on: Welcome to my blog http://www.greggtownsley.com/2005/07/06/first-blog-post/ You think I missed? Just try to shake your head. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:23:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: GET http://www.greggtownsley.com/2005/07/06/first-blog-post/comment-page-1/#comment-5 GET Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:26:30 +0000 http://www.greggtownsley.com/2005/06/26/first-blog-post/#comment-5 Anna Anna

]]> By: Nancy Ann http://www.greggtownsley.com/2005/07/06/first-blog-post/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Nancy Ann Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:13:34 +0000 http://www.greggtownsley.com/2005/06/26/first-blog-post/#comment-4 I've been a journalist, but that's never defined me. I've been a wife and mother, and struggled at times to keep the balance healthy. Nancy Ann is most succinctly who I am. Is that all? I'm sure there's more. Is it enough? Most days it is. And I'm finding, thanks to the insights and encouragement of some special ones in my life, new ways to underline or italicize the "me" in the sentences or paragraphs that define my life. What's the point? Perhaps it's the exclamation . . . I’ve been a journalist, but that’s never defined me. I’ve been a wife and mother, and struggled at times to keep the balance healthy.

Nancy Ann is most succinctly who I am. Is that all? I’m sure there’s more. Is it enough? Most days it is. And I’m finding, thanks to the insights and encouragement of some special ones in my life, new ways to underline or italicize the “me” in the sentences or paragraphs that define my life.

What’s the point? Perhaps it’s the exclamation . . .

]]> By: GET http://www.greggtownsley.com/2005/07/06/first-blog-post/comment-page-1/#comment-3 GET Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:46:52 +0000 http://www.greggtownsley.com/2005/06/26/first-blog-post/#comment-3 Even "mom" or "wife" can rob a person of energy, especially if it becomes a chore, which at some point, of course, parenting--as an example--will. What would it feel like if Rachel was Rachel? And she often times mothered, and sometimes wived, and occasionally befriended, etcetera? That's my point. And man is it tough...especially when folks lodge so much weight and expectation on a given word, "pastor," for example, or "parent..." Even “mom” or “wife” can rob a person of energy, especially if it becomes a chore, which at some point, of course, parenting–as an example–will. What would it feel like if Rachel was Rachel? And she often times mothered, and sometimes wived, and occasionally befriended, etcetera? That’s my point. And man is it tough…especially when folks lodge so much weight and expectation on a given word, “pastor,” for example, or “parent…”

]]> By: RMS http://www.greggtownsley.com/2005/07/06/first-blog-post/comment-page-1/#comment-2 RMS Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:12:01 +0000 http://www.greggtownsley.com/2005/06/26/first-blog-post/#comment-2 I will be reading your new blog, unless, of course, you don't want me to! Since becoming a stay-at-home-mom, for the first time my identity is not characterized by my job. Now it is being a mom and wife and friend and whatever else, and that's what I wanted all along anyway. :-) Welcome to the world of blogging! I will be reading your new blog, unless, of course, you don’t want me to!

Since becoming a stay-at-home-mom, for the first time my identity is not characterized by my job. Now it is being a mom and wife and friend and whatever else, and that’s what I wanted all along anyway. :-)

Welcome to the world of blogging!

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