SITE OF THE WEEK: The Story of Why

this week’s featured site is The Story of Why. “Gladys Cortez” is a Chicago resident living on the West Siiiiiide!!! she describes her blog thus–that’s right, thus:

In defense of the unusual. This blog is being created to chronicle my reasons for many of the choices I’m making in my life; though this is one of those extremely-personal things, I suspect that more than one person has found himself/herself in the same situation I’m in, for different reasons.

read what the Chicago Tribune’s very own Eric Zorn has to say about Gladys’s blog (see link below).

yay, Gladys! the link to her blog is also under “Neighborhood Watch” in the righthand sidebar.

THIS BLOG-MERICAN LIFE

Eric Zorn
posted 11/19/04

A common criticism of Web logs is that they deal in banalities ? the everyday occurrences in everyday lives — and are therefore both self-indulgent and dull. Yet while some, perhaps many, are dull, it’s not necessarily the subject matter.

The everyday occurrences in everyday lives can be fascinating. Ira Glass, the Chicago-based genius behind public radio’s “This American Life” proves it nearly every week.

If you like that program, you may like “The Story of Why,” a brutally honest blog by “Gladys Cortez,” the pseudonym of West Garfield Park woman. I won’t even try to describe it and can’t link directly to it on orders from above due to concerns about strong language.

If you look for it, read “About Family” and “Anniversaries of Note” for a sample.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ericzorn/chi-zornlog.story#storyofwhy
accessed 11/24/04