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How Starting a Blog Is Like Having Twins

Starting a blog is like having twins. Well, sort of. There are similarities, in the same way getting a splinter is equivalent to hacking off your finger.

Before you realize you’re going to start a blog – or have twins – life is pretty cruisy. You have free time, and later on when you’re truly busy, you wonder what you used to do with all that free time.

I can drag out the reluctant analogy further: when you find out you’re having twins – or going to write a blog – you go into research mode. You read everything, scour the net, talk to people, and become an armchair critic, noting with fervor what you’ll do differently. Then comes the birth, that moment when theory becomes practice, when – almost literally – the shit hits the fan. The books are gone (airborne across the room in a fit of sleepless rage), the people are in hiding (who willingly listens to screaming?), and the websites make you feel inadequate. An epiphany of self-doubt is born.

That’s what happened on that fateful day five plus years ago, when my twins, Vivian and William, were snatched from my womb in a hospital in Bangkok. That’s what’s happening today, as my first blog leaves the draft section and enters Never Never-land.

Filed Under: Hilarious Family Moments Tagged With: Bangkok, twins

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Comments

  1. Uncle Gary says

    November 15, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Great stuff, Leanne. Fun and real and laugh-out-loud writing. Very enjoyable…I look forward to more. Good for you!

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  2. Sarah Kramer says

    November 17, 2009 at 5:08 am

    ….but do you have a neighbour who just slides in to see you…….?

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  3. Sarah Kramer says

    November 17, 2009 at 5:10 am

    do you have a neighbour who can slide in when you need help with the blog?

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  4. ironicmom says

    November 17, 2009 at 6:14 am

    Thanks, UG!

    And Sarah, I desperately need a Kramer in my life. Feel free to be a Kramer and slide in my front door anytime. Though from Australia, that’d be one long slide. Miss you!

    Reply
  5. thatfunnyblogguy says

    August 12, 2013 at 10:34 am

    Strange new hobby of mine–scrolling back to the beginning… And I’m the only person to click like?!

    Reply

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