Does a Zebra in the wild make a sound?

Today we are checking out a great read of a blog called Zebra Sounds at www.zebrasounds.net.

I’ve been loosely related to this author for just a hair over forty years but we’ve only just really talked this past one. Judy Clement-Wall, the writer of Zebra Sounds, was my best buddies older sister back in 1968. Being a girl and having girl things to do, my buddy and I left Judy to her own business and except for an occasional head butting or howdy, we spoke little but were probably used to each other being near by. That ended in 1981 when she graduated and was gone from my life. Facebook comes along and I am amazed at how many people are finding me and each other. Heck, my kindergarten room formed a group. I had forgotten that probably thirty of us went through all 13 years of school together and it was fun talking to them again. One day, Facebook suggested that I may know Judy. We friended up and exchanged pleasantries. I noticed she had a blog. I start reading said blog and find that this girl I felt was almost a sister in law was so amazingly funny and insightful. She was not posting every day back then and I was not brave enough to comment often as I think I am probably no less a nuisance today than I was back in the 60’s and 70’s. Judy has a great system of theme days. I’ve seen many bloggers do this so that their readers have a few chances of one or two days a week that they will be interested in the material. My problem is that all of Judy’s stuff is worth reading and very rarely is something not funny. I’m sure it may come up, but I just dont’ remember those as much as the funny stuff. For instance, on Friday’s, Judy does a caption game. Last Fridays was:

Hello, cutest “Caption This” photo EVER!

I found this picture on Twitter. Someone tweeted it. They’re chicks… Get it? (That is super funny when you’re on cold medicine.)

Okay, okay, I’ll stop. Happy Friday, y’all! Caption this!
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Each Friday she does this and I happily participate. Other days like Saturday are things that make Judy smile. The subjects sound easy but what Judy finds and writes about is thoughtful, cheerful and light hearted.  Her very last one I read was about the joys of playing hooky for a day.  Who wouldn’t mind a hooky day?

Judy is a mom to three humans, one pooch and wife to a very cool gentleman that comments from time to time in the threads. Judy has a finished novel and is currently working on the publishing part of being a writer. Follow her on twitter at @jdistractionand engage with her blog.

Game on!

After talking with Lovina and Erich, I have been given the honor of writing our first post. I’d like to welcome you to our social project in the works and I’d like to thank you for reading this far. I’ll go over who I am, what we will do here and then we’ll see what’s left to say.

I’m John Pruitt. I’ve lived in the San Jose area of California since 1968. Due to a freak accident with a radio active mouse, I found that I had the power to understand social networks and computers. Starting with bulletin board systems (my handle was HAL9000) and then moving to AppleLink and on to AOL. I was quoted in the 2nd version of the Using AOL guide. My parents were very proud. The web expanded and I joined the society of online gamers. At this point, the other types of socializing started to crop up. Instant messengers were all the rage. Then came the larger social networks. Plaxo, LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, twitter and one of my own personal loves Yelp. I read a lot of blogs and now read even more. I’ve played a back seat roll in helping clients with blogging and search engine optimization for the last five years. Now I work with a cohesive (word of the day) group of people with the goal of helping moms. When I first said this to my mom friends, the funniest return guess as to how I helped moms was “Are you a Valium distributor?”. No, I’m not.

My twins were born when I was 23. Hammer and Anvil, as I called them, were two for the price of one in every respect. Happiness, chores, diapers but most of all humor. As my children grew up and I found myself becoming my father, their humor kept me laughing. My children are not children anymore. They just turned 22 and both are into their graduate studies in College. I am a proud father and I love my sons.

I’ll be changing what we do here over the next couple of weeks while I am getting in the groove of this blog. I’m excited about the challenges of our plans for it. For the start, I am going to be reviewing mom bloggers of interest from across the net. You don’t have to be a blogger about moms. Just be a mom and have a blog. I will also be blogging about articles and news tidbits I come across that I feel will be of interest to moms.

If you have comments, feedback or just want to say howdy, I’d love to hear from you. All my contact information is in the About section.

Thanks for reading!

John

MomConnect, Inc. Blog – Dedicated to news that is of interest to moms everywhere

More posts shortly.  Just setting things up today.