My Tribute

At work one day while reading the paper online that I worked for at the time, I saw a lady had posted on the newspapers blog. She was blogging about her mother-in-law and it was called Hiding Under A Bushel Or Not. I read her story, and she also had links to her website and her photography site www.inkhounds.com

After reading her story, I wrote down the links and visited when I got home from work that night. I perused the PNN sight and thought it seemed like a great site so I joined PNN in February, but was very apprehensive about adding anything at all since it seemed to be for writers. Then I decided, “what the heck and dove in anyway”. Well, I can say that when I hit the water virtually that right away I received welcomes and felt right at home, and since being here, I have not met anyone that I haven’t enjoyed and it is such a wonderful bunch of women (some men do hang around this global water cooler also and they are pretty awesome too).

Last week, I was invited to join another site by a friend so I did, but it is a site where you invite friends (you probably know the one). I joined, but I really don’t know that many people to invite to be a friend in real life let alone virtually so I tried to place a link on my PNN page, but it didn’t work so I deleted it. But, before I deleted it, MoM saw my post which said visit me…so she visited me on PNN, and she knew what I was trying to do. Everyone here says you gotta love MotherofMany, and they are right because it seemed as if she waved her hand and said “hey all, let’s go visit Peabea at the other site and be her friend”.

Well, I was so thrilled to see all the invites and amazed because it was like a bunch of friends bursting in at the same time to say “surprise, we’re here”. It made my day…and I so had a smile, which is what PNN is all about. These amazing people on www.pnn.com do make you smile all the time. They are so talented and funny and just interesting to visit and enjoy their insights on a variety of subjects. In reading their posts, I feel that for a moment, I can take a break from my life, enter theirs and learn different views about writing and other topics, and in doing so I have adjusted my outlook on some things, and experienced other parts of the world through their eyes.  Thanks new virtual friends.

And if there are any new people here on PNN, from my experience, I can say that the longer you are here, the more you will come to love visiting here every day.