The recent Weblog Awards made me realize certain things about how I view blogging nowadays.

There are general categories floating around out there that most bloggers can identify with: personal, media, design, politics, religion. I have my own categories, and they don’t directly have anything to do with the ones I just mentioned: thought-provoking, pretty, photo-envy, word-envy, and opinionated. There’s also Family, Christianity, Fiction, News and Questions.

Now my blogreading preferences are changing once again, however, in terms of not only topics but also timeliness. Military blogs are probably my favorite sort of blogs to read right now – I just found Training for Eternity today – as are moderately liberal blogs like Michael Totten and Roger L. Simon. Also, food blogs like Chocolate & Zucchini are a daily stop; Instapundit usually gives me a good idea of what’s being linked or discussed right now in the blogosphere; the only photoblog I manage to visit on a semi-regular basis is Heather Champ’s. And Hugo may not realize this, but his is one of my favorite blogs to read, period, when it comes to thought-provoking content.

Okay, enough blog-whoring. As for this blog: I had originally wanted to gradually make Creative Slips a storytelling blog, because that’s what I do best, but it’s difficult to dredge up any inspiration on a regular basis when I have so many other commitments already pleading for attention. Writing a good story on a whim is much harder than it looks. But I’ll get to that, never fear; just because I don’t write the stories down doesn’t mean they cease to exist.

P.S. My blogroll also serves as my list of bookmarks when I’m away from my personal laptop. Just an FYI.