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Alex Tunney, author of the blog “The Ones Who are Mad to Live,” interviewed me about my African volunteer experience. Read “‘Weizo!’ Having and Giving in Ghana.”

Alex’s thoughtful questions stirred many fond memories and rekindled my passion for exploring cross-cultural experiences. The interview process inspired me to dust off Culture Trek, my travel blog, where I will continue writing a detailed account of my Ghanaian journey.

Thanks for everything, Alex. I truly enjoyed working with you on this project.

Author, teacher and friend, Dr. Kathryn Laity, has celebrated women by interviewing, throughout the month of March, those she knows and finds interesting. I was honored and thrilled when I received my invitation. For all the interviews, click here. To read my responses, click the image below.

Kim Clune's Women's Month Interview

Have you ever analyzed what blogging means to you and how it influences what you write? I did just that for Esther Prokopienko, a grad student at the College of Saint Rose. Researching both the act and platform of blogging, she incorporated the following answers into her research and posted the resulting paper, The Scholarly Writer/Blogger: A New Discursive Space, on her own blog, Esther’s Space.

1. How long have you been blogging? Why did you choose to begin? Do you notice any changes in your writing/thinking process from before you were a blogger to now, as an active blogger? Do you use blogging as a way of thinking through ideas? How do you use the different mediums (journals, blogs, livejournals, etc) for thinking and writing?

While spending a great deal of time overseas as a flight attendant (1997-2001), I had begun a blog of sorts, The Lincoln Street Chronicles, to keep friends and family updated on my personal activities and observations. I’d also share pre-digital, scanned photos of my layovers. That primitive HTML site was hosted by Geocities and I would add entries to the top of a free, single and static web page. There was no mechanism for readers to enter comments, but I sometimes posted interesting email replies under the main post. I certainly wasn’t the only person doing this, but I suspect that blogs, as they are known today, stemmed from this type of “web logging.”

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