Comments on: Sshh! It’s A Secret!

By: This Eclectic Life » I’ll Show You Mine, You Show Me Yours

This Eclectic Life » I’ll Show You Mine, You Show Me Yours — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:28:29 +0000

[...] talked about secrets in the blog world the other day. I think that there are some things that should be kept quiet. But, [...]

By: (((((HUGS))))) sandi

(((((HUGS))))) sandi — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:28:33 +0000

This made me cry! I had a Mamaw and Papaw too. They passed while I was in high school, and I didn’t get to know them as well as I’d like. I remember my Mamaw writing me a letter once and sharing that she had something she wanted to talk to me about. (We only saw each other like, once a year unfortunately.) I’ve ALWAYS wondered what that was…. (((((HUGS))))) sandi

I hate it when that happens! Make up a story…one that you like! My Mamaw and I got very close when I got older. We talked about things that my Momma and I never would have mentioned!

By: Cori

Cori — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:21:38 +0000

Shelly this was a wonderfully touching story and made me remember that I was once married before; something that I don’t often think about, simply because it was no big deal to me but it may in fact be a big deal to my kids one day. Thanks so much for sharing.

Don’t know how you will deal with telling the kids about the fact, but make sure they don’t find out “accidentally!”

By: This Eclectic Life » Don’t Tell My Husband!

This Eclectic Life » Don’t Tell My Husband! — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:34:58 +0000

[...] time. This is definitely a secret to share, and y’all might have read how I feel about secrets. Do y’all have a “secret” packaged meal to share? I could use some more ideas for [...]

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:12:43 +0000

What!!!!! People out there actually weight themselves in their own bathroom with clothes on? Hellooooo…don’t get that one.

So you know that I tried to stay anon through my blog, but then I started sharing. I wouldn’t write secrets b/c they come back to bite ya. However, that said, it was kind of funny that I know more about my Mom’s mom then my cousins do and they didn’t know about two other sisters, one a step and one that died young. But don’t you think we can all figure out when something is not being said?

I look at my blog as fun, not as a confessional. Good post to get us all thinking.

I don’t use mine as a “confessional” but I’m delighted to tell the idiocy that I bring upon myself. Like Jamie, I don’t feel bad about telling a story on someone who can no longer be hurt by it. I don’t see the point in trying to be anonymous, though. Not for me, anyway. People will have a way of finding out.

By: Thorne

Thorne — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:47:22 +0000

A well told and touching story, Shelly. I think that there are secrets and then there are SECRETS. I try not to tell secrets that belong to others, and I admit that I’ve taken a bit of crap for sharing parts of myself that others feel should be secrets (like my webmaster who thinks that my politics and lesbianism have no place in my tattoo business even by 6 degrees of linkage). I have an old abandoned blog at an unnamed site that I let go because I exposed a bit too much of myself sort of all at once. Still, I don’t delete it, because it’s real; or it was at the time, anyway.
I suppose in the end it’s like making amends in AA. “except when to do so would injure yourself or others”. Beyond that, I’m pretty much an open book because this is real. Blogging is life. Like me, hate me, approve or don’t. In the immortal words of our favorite sailorman “I yam what I yam”.

And, that’s OK, Thorne. I like yams

By: lola

lola — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:59:43 +0000

It is an interesting topic, and beautifully told.
You know, I like to comment in my blog some anecdotes from my life, but I think that there are some things we must keep for ourselves.
Well, I am practicing knitting, the samples are a bit odd, but I am trying to do my best.

Thank you, Lola. If it feels like something that you shouldn’t tell, then it probably should be a secret. It’s one of those things you have to decide for yourself. Just think twice before hitting the post button!