… and then I will never mention it again.<\/p>\n
I hesitated to even bring this up – but then thought: Okay. This issue is NOT a private issue – it has to do with my blog, and my blogging, and I’ve got to get this OUT.<\/p>\n
Here’s the situation:<\/p>\n
I can feel that I am hesitating to write about my personal life now because I have a reader who is – freaking me out, honestly.<\/p>\n
He appears to be a bit obsessed with me, he reads too much into the stuff I write, and seems to want MORE from me, basically, dying for me to fill in the “gaps and facades”, as he calls them – He says my blog is filled with “red herrings”. Red herrings? What? There are no red herrings<\/b>. There is just what I choose to reveal. It’s my blog. I am not bound to reveal ALL here. That’s not the purpose of my blog.<\/b><\/p>\n
If you find me unbearably mysterious, then that’s YOUR problem.<\/p>\n
This person has done what appear to be extensive Internet searches about my background, stuff which, quite honestly, freak me out. He tries to catch me in inconsistencies, he brings up completely obscure stuff from my own life in emails to me, which shows that he has spent a bit of time searching me out, and he seems to feel that … because I reveal stuff here on my blog, because he has commented here occasionally, and because we have emailed back and forth (like I do with MANY of my readers – I don’t want THAT to stop!!), that we are deeply intimate friends. That he somehow “knows” me. His tone is too intimate for me – It creeps me out.<\/p>\n
I have made a lot of friends through blogging. I correspond with a wide range of people. I enjoy it tremendously. I haven’t experienced any weirdness with any of my pen-pals, until this moment.<\/p>\n
Now: Notice the warning I have added over by my email address.<\/p>\n
That warning does not apply to people I already know and trust <\/b>– but to anyone who comes to me out of the blue, and starts acting too familiar with me, or behaving, in general, like a weirdo – I will post your emails word for word, and leave you open to the scorn of many.<\/p>\n
I figured I would bring this out to the open, because I want to write on my blog in my own way, and I will <\/i>write on my blog in my own way, with no worries towards readers who feel that I reveal too LITTLE – who want MORE – whose behavior, quite frankly, verges on the creepy.<\/p>\n
I love the community I have started to form here. I love my regular readers and new friends.\/b><\/p>\n
I enjoy our conversations. I enjoy your comments. Everything is right with the world.<\/p>\n
I like to write about politics. I like to write about art. Occasionally I like to tell stories from my own life.<\/p>\n
I don’t want that to change.<\/p>\n
I don’t want one weird-o apple to spoil the whole bunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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