Blogroll

My feed reader is crammed full of great stuff to read. I like these blogs the best, and they publish regularly. With all these blogs to read, if you wonder how I find time for anything else, your thinking is on the right track.

Well-Written Personal Blogs

• 40 is the New 13 - Humorous and thoughtful reflections on life in the 40s.
• City in the Trees - Perspectives and abandoned roads from Toronto.
• HeatherBlog – A travel blog by Heather from Minnesota. Obviously, she’s escaping the winters.
• Hoosier Happenings - A fellow Hoosier and Michigan Road lover shares his views.
• in case i’m gone – A mom whose time may be short writes to her young son so he might know her.
• Me, Myself, and I - Talking past midnight.
• String Too Short to Tie - Personal blog of a fellow Hoosier.
• The Literate Pen - Southern writings and ramblings.
• The Ramblings - A stay-at-home mom observes the odder things in life.
• Todd Pack’s Messy Desk - Family, pop culture and anything else that comes to mind.
• The Trephine - She needs this blog like a hole in her head.
• Zorgor - He’s my colleague, and he paints.

People with Something to Say

• Altucher Confidential - James Altucher tells the truth, his truth anyway, because he sees it as his path to sanity.
• Ashes of Our Fathers - Celebrating Western civilization.
• Happiness in this World - Reflections of a Buddhist physician.
• LeadingSmart - Practical stuff for church leaders.
• Penelope Trunk - A blog about career advice. And about Penelope Trunk.
• Roger Ebert’s Journal - Well-written essays about movies, tech, and society.

Cars

• Ate Up with Motor - In-depth history and commentary on interesting cars and the people behind them.
• Curbside Classic – Every car has a story. (I sometimes contribute to this blog.)
• Jim’s Garage - Cars and driving.
• Old Parked Cars – Just as the name says.

Software

• Coding Horror – Programming and human factors.
• Developsense Blog – Thinking critically and radically about software testing.
• Rands in Repose - Intelligent writing about building software and managing geeks.

Road Trips

• Denny G’s Road Trips Blog – A blog by a well-known road tripper.
• On the Road - The blog of AARoads, a leading roadfan site. Great photos from road trips.
• Roadside Architecture Blog - A woman, her four dogs, and her road trips.
• Sure, Why Not? - On the road with Adam Prince, a fellow roadfan.

Historic Preservation

• After the Final Curtain – Grand old theaters, abandoned and beautifully photographed.
• Historic Indianapolis – Sharing the disparate particles discarded by previous generations of Indianapolis residents.
• Preservation in Pink – Encouraging preservationists.

Television

• By Ken Levine – Stories of TV from the comedy writer behind several shows you know.
• The Classic TV History Blog – Dispatches from the vast wasteland.
• Live Apartment Fire – By a TV news reporter who’s in his fourth decade in the business.
• Viewfinder Blues - Committing television since 1989.

Photography and Old Cameras

• 52 Cameras in 52 Weeks – He shoots with a different old film camera every week.
• Analog Photography at its Best – Artist and designer Paul Giambarba and his favorite film photos.
• Beacon 225 – A fellow old-camera collector and the photos he gets from his collection.
• Captured by Film - Old cameras and taking pictures on film.
• The Casual Camera Collector - A self-avowed rabid vintage camera collector.
• The Heidelberger Papers - Gritty urban photography.
• Life, Edinburgh – Guerilla film photography. This dude makes his own cameras!
• Photography and Vintage Cameras - He spends much of his time making photographs, usually with old film cameras.
• Picturenoise - Vintage and plastic cameras.
• Random Camera Blog - One man’s thoughts and activities in photography, camera collecting, current events, and photographic tips.
• Shorpy - Really old photographs.
• Shot on Film – New images from old cameras.
• Through a Vintage Lens - Essays about collecting vintage cameras and instructions for repairing them.

Faith and Christianity

• Growing Up in Jesus – Teaching from a pastor at my church.
• Kingdom Seeking – An almost-daily update from a Church of Christ preacher.