As I mentioned in my post a few days ago, one of the many reasons that I have not been consistent in my writing here is because I am writing two other blogs. I "met" Tracey almost three years ago through the Capture Your 365 community. I say "met" because we have never met in person. In the sharing of our daily photos in the CY365 forum, a connection formed between us. Our communication moved from CY365 public gallery comments to personal email and text messaging. In a nutshell, we discovered that though on the surface our lives appear very different, we actually share many common interests and experiences. Two years ago, those commonalities led us to start writing a blog, Pixels, Plates, and Lols!, together. In it we discuss friendship, photography, and a lot of food. This is another one of those people stories that I was talking about yesterday. We wanted to find something we could do together to celebrate and nurture our friendship.
Tracey lives in Michigan and I in Texas. We can't decide on a whim to go out for coffee, do lunch, or go on a photowalk together, but we can share our individual thoughts about and experiences with coffee, lunch, our cameras, and many other things with each other and with you through our blog posts. Writing together is our way of sharing a long distance friendship. And let me say, we have had A LOT of LOLs, both publicly and privately. I think I can speak for both of us when I say blogging together is super fun.
As I sit here writing these words, I have just hit publish on our last post of Pixels, Plates, and Lols!.
Don't worry! All is good with Tracey and me! Just as 2016 is coming to an end and 2017, with all of its possibilities, is about to be birthed, so our first blog together is coming to an end and something new for us is about to be born. Though it was kind of sad knowing that when I hit "Publish" it would be the last time for Pixels, Plates, and Lols!, I know that things change. Thankfully for us, this change is good thing!
I hope that I have figured out an effective way to balance my collaborative writing with Tracey and my personal writing here, but don't be surprised if every now and then there is a bit of "sharing" between the two blogs. Lol!
If you are interested in following us on our new adventure, I will share the details here as soon as I can! If, while you wait, you want to read the detailed story of how we became friends and starting blogging together, here is the link to our very first post on Pixels, Plates, and LOLs!.
Enjoy! And thanks for reading.
