Miss Frizzy says I’m a thinking blogger, which is nice because I wonder about this space sometimes. The thinking has drifted over the years, from more academic to more personal. Lately it’s drifted from words to pictures, and I end up having middle of the night conversations with Mister Husband about photography as a way of knowing.

It’s funny, this, because when Jenny sent out a Facebook question the other day for blog recomendations, I mentioned frizzyLogic. I so enjoy seeing where Rachel’s mind wanders and lights, and the ways she’s documented her various transformations. She’s taught me about Africa and London and photography and nameless cats, and now she’s seen Lou Reed perform Berlin live and I haven't and am quite upset about that. Plus, she’s funny and nice and writes wonderful emails.

If anybody except Jenny had asked that question, I would have also mentioned 12 frogs, but you can’t very well recommend someone’s own blog to them. Actually, you’re better off reading her Jaiku, so you get the full force of her web presence — especially her work on flickr. Her Project 365 is one of the wittiest I’ve seen, and it’s part of what inspired me to get out and about with my camera more this year.

I don’t know the proprietor of Osmium at all. I do know that Josh is an electrochemistry PhD student and runner. He’s another Southern expat (Tennessee to NYC and points beyond.) And he writes such odd, smart posts that I had to go back and read all of them from the start.

I discovered Xtinpore last week after she (?) linked me. That’s not much time to develop an affection, but this post on academics and their workspaces was so well-written and soulful that I was blog-smitten in that way that tells me I’ll be reading for some time to come.

Needless to say, the guy at This Public Address has made me think for years. We might not have gotten together if not for his blog. It’s drifted from personal to more academic over the years — an inverse of mine, perhaps. But he’s writing out his memories lately, and I find myself waking up every morning and going straight to the computer to see what he wrote last night while I was sleeping.

(You’ll notice I’ve not mentioned any Rhet/Comp/Internets bloggers here. That’s because they’re all over in their own Thinking Bloggers section in the sidebar.)