Nina Lewis

Yesterday, I caught up on a  blog that I occasionally read.  I like it because it is so well-written — a perfectly worded phrase here, a fresh verb there — and funny, funny, funny.  And sweet.  She talks about clothes, shoes, her toddler, clothes, shoes, her current hair style, some of her daily activities — and did I mention clothes and shoes?

Now, these topics are not all-consuming to me.  Not even.  I hate shoes.  I prefer water boarding over shoe shopping.

I hate shopping for clothes.  Which fashion design straight out of Paris or which item off the rack at Wal-Mart looks even minimally decent on my sack-of-Idaho-potatoes figure, I ask you?

And I won’t even start in about my hate/hate relationship with my hair!

So why do I read the blog?  Because it is so well-written.  (Which proves that if you are an adroit wordsmith, your writing will be appealing even to those who are not really ‘in’ to your topic.)

Yesterday’s blog was a little bit different.  No shoe discussion.  Nothing about clothing.  However, she did discuss the fact that she had received a very hateful, repulsive-to-read comment on her blog.  I was floored!  How could anybody ever get upset over her writing?  Come on, folks.  It’s not like she’s talking about politics or religion or the one-and-only true method for cleaning the grout in your bathroom.  Sheesh!

My little pea-brain just couldn’t conjure up anything to be offended about from what she has written. Which surprised me because I often pride myself in my perspicacity.

I wondered why the person felt so compelled to write something so horrible on such a sweet blog.  Maybe s/he was forced to eat red beets as a child.  Maybe s/he was resentful of the seemingly perfect life this person was currently leading.  Maybe s/he was really the Joker from The Dark Knight.

I just don’t understand.

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