Upon first visiting this site, my review was immediately biased as the writer currently resides in God’s country, and nothing bad, with the exception of football teams, has ever come from this great state. While the log is barely over a year old, there is more content here than in most logs twice its age.
The author is a lady who has come to the US, and while currently waiting for processing from the INS, spends her time at home, and has plenty of time for writing. She details her daily life of sitting at home while waiting in vain for our government to allow her to go to work. Each day is replete with comments from her daily life, as well as links to other sites, mostly other log entries which have sparked her interest. I found it quite entertaining to read the first few days of posts and to read of her struggles with her blogging tool.
I’m not a reviewer who grades too tough on design. Unless a site is overtly offensive, I try to grade more on writing and effort which to me is the essence of the site. I believe that in most instances, a blogger template is sufficient, and in this case, it is. The design in clean and the navigation is simple. There is a small bio at the top, plenty of archives, and lots of links to other good reading.
Overall, I’ve got to give her credit, if for nothing else, the fact that she’s a newly formed Iowa girl. There are few logs that I have seen that have this much effort put into the writing. If you’re looking for a site that truly details every segment of the authors life, this is definitely the one.In the Blink of…