I said a couple days ago I was toying with linking to some other great blogs that were not participating in the blogathon, but which were great reads. There’s not a lot that I go to regularly, so I thought for a Sunday night’s reading, why not?

First up is my guy’s blog, One Piece a Day. He has a years’ long habit of picking up at least one piece of garbage tossed by some *&$#er every day, and thereby making the world just a little bit better than he has found it. His immediate family — and I — have taken up the cause. It’s hard to walk buy stray garbage when you have the phrase “One Piece a Day” lodged in your brain. He’s a good enough writer, too. Well, he thinks he’s quite clever, and sometimes I do, too.

He has another blog that I don’t visit as often, but which he’s paying me to pimp to my 7 loyal readers, about his dining around in the Seattle International District. He’s never found an Asian restaurant he didn’t want to eat in. I, on the other hand, have found many that frighten me (remind me to tell you the story about my first experience eating Vietnamese food, and the rat). Also, he likes bubble tea. I don’t.

I post links to my pal Pam’s blog, Nerds Eye View, a lot. She’s pithy, and smart, and spot on. She has won awards for her web writing by people who READ blogs. She’s often hysterical. And she plays in a rock band on the side. ON THE SIDE! She writes about travel, because she does a lot of it, lucky woman. But she touches on issues about blogging, the tech world, the wider world. I miss her Fish Wednesday posts. Hear that Pam?

Just a Backpack and a Rollie is written by Nancy Thompson. She says it’s about “rethinking retirement” but that implies it’s for older folks, or rich people who have all the time (and money) in the world to travel. I just like to read what she writes about what she sees. Like this post about Portland, which should, indeed, stay weird.

Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds blog was recommended last year by the aforementioned Pam. It’s got great flash fiction contests, and some great stuff for those who write genre fiction. But it’s got good writing advice overall. My biggest gripe about it — as a subscriber (and I could fix it by simply visiting it as I wish) — is that he publishes often multiple times a day. Who has that much time to blog?

I think that’ll do you for a Saturday night. Go click on the boyfriend’s blogs now. His readership will triple and I’ll totally take credit and reap the rewards.