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# When you don’t feel like blogging, is it time to blog?
This past couple of weeks I haven't felt much like blogging or podcasting. Not sure why. I spent a good chunk of time doing some web design, preparing for a WordPress course, helping Shannon with her blog, and finishing up a project for an upcoming release at work.

With all that, my free time for blogging grew thinner and thinner. And the less you write, the less the muse speaks. After a while I wondered what I would even write about. I didn't have much to say. Coming up with something original required too much effort. Then it was Pioneer day, and we went camping in the woods.

[![Up at Bear Lake, Utah with kids](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/tom-with-kids-at-bear-lake2.jpg)](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/2008/07/tom-with-kids-at-bear-lake.jpg)

Little comments continued to trickle in from random readers. One liners. Short feedback. No one I knew. Regular readers seemed to stop coming. And I stopped reading other blogs. I was about to slip into a blogging coma. Where was it going anyway?