"Safety experts" warn us to minimize distractions while driving. Are any of these people parents?!?!?!?!? --- original quote from C. Marie Byars [a sardonic view on safely driving with young children]
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| The Palisades, along US 64 in Northern New Mexico |
Update 2026: This is my first existing post on this, my second blog. Unlike my other blog, it was not intended to be specifically Christian nor specifically religious. It was intended to be an outlet for things that might burst out of me that family and friends found amusing. It was also to be a place of short quotes from others that my associates found thought-provoking or funny.
The updated title of this post is not to imply that I ever blogged while driving. In fact, when I first posted the original quote, we didn't even have laptops, let alone smart phones.
Back then, my children were quite young, and it was nice to connect in various ways. Social media was much less prevalent than it is now, and blogging was a main force in social media. Other than that, we sent email circulars to friends, associates, workmates (as appropriate), and people we "kind of knew." (I have collected some of those e-mail circular and similar lists that were more prominent on Facebook in the past throughout this blog.)
Back when I was first blogging, starting around 2007, we could connect to other Blogspot bloggers we'd never met rather easily. Our Blogger profiles had hyperlinks for our interests, talents, and abilities. We would look up other bloggers and comment on each other's blogs. Those hyperlinks were abolished several years ago. Now many Blogger profiles aren't even indexed.
I feel, though, that collecting some of the e-mail and Facebook humorous lists here preserves them. Although they may be found elsewhere on the internet, I believe that I have curated them in ways that often organize the topics within the lists and gives them context. These lists are becoming societal artifacts. I believe some of the ongoing education I have gotten since I started blogging, as well as my natural interests, are of value in being such a curator.
