Blog Potato

Inside Out has been added to the Blog Potato blogroll. What's a Blog Potato? Just as couch potatoes sit on the couch all day; blog potatoes are people who blog all the time. Blog Potato has the ambitious goal of compiling the longest blogroll on the Internet. If you have a blog, visit the site and get yourself added.

Melting Mama

I've become hooked this week on reading other blogs related to surgical weight loss. There's an abundance of them out there, and each has its own merits. Take Melting Mama, for example.

The site's owner, Beth, is a Bostonian about my age who once topped the scales at more than 300 pounds. What I love most about her blog is its snarky tone. She's had a slew of complications since WLS, and she doesn't shy away from them. I appreciate that about her, because as I've said, this journey isn't all peaches and roses -- and I think more people need to be aware of the risks associated with it.

So, take a sec and check out Melting Mama, and then click back here and tell me what you think.

Changing places

Because of hacking issues associated with Movable Type (the program used for this blog), the Tracy Press will stop hosting blogs. Instead, the Press will link to external blogs.
The good news is that anyone within the Tracy Press circulation area may now ask to have their blog linked from our Web site (E-mail tluiz@tracypress.com to make such a request).

The bad news is that my blog address will change this week. As far as I know, the plan is to keep all previously posted entries up as read-only files until I'm able to move all postings over to the new site. However, I'm not sure how long it'll take me to complete my transition. In the interest of serving readers best, I'll start uploading my oldest entries to the new site first. I won't publish new material until the transition is complete.

Click here to view and bookmark my new blog site. I'm hope that using Blogger will make this column more user-friendly to visitors. Please let me know what you think.