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Kelly Love Johnson

Skirt! managing editor

Writer, editor, author, independent girly feminist hipster, slightly neurotic, cynically optimistic, compassionately liberal, fiscally conservative, somewhat intellectual, and always irreverent. ...

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Embracing the mundane....

Kelly Love Johnson

One of my favorite creative inspiration books is No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Margaret Mason (also the creator of one of my regular blog reads, MightyGirl). The book is full of writing prompts for bloggers (and any writer, really). The premise is that blogging can be interesting, readable, exciting, and unusual – if we can think outside of that navel-gazing what-I-did-today-that-you-won’t-really-care-about box.

I used to LOVE to read blogs – I found new ones I fell in love with every day. Over time, that’s changed to a short list that I read frequently, friends’ blogs I read to keep up with this one or that one, and occasionally I stumble on a great new one. My theory is this: If you’re going to navel-gaze, which is what the majority of blogs are all about, do it well. Write from the heart, write funny, write informatively, or reveal your deepest secrets. Otherwise, I really don’t want to know what you had for lunch.

On my personal web site, I blog about the mundane all the time. I even wrote an essay for Skirt! about it back in November. With that, I think the best way to sum up is with this: Today for lunch, I tried Morningstar Farms new ginger teriyaki veggie cakes. Only 220 calories for two and full of lots of healthy goodness. Behold....