Sandy: We really know how to keep our new years resolutions!
We almost became one of those dead blogs that stop posting just as you are starting to follow it.
Wendy: Yeah and then you keep checking back hoping they are just having a longer pause until you give up hope.
Sandy: I almost gave up hope. After we got the internet connection fixed in about a week I had already filled the time with other things and then suddenly no longer had time to post. It was a mistake to promise to post often that was too much work. So from now on we will post whenever but that's better than not posting at all.
Also I got sick of the dark winter and the bad picture quality of the pictures taken in the dark.
Wendy: The summer light and the summer clothes really inspire to post.
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| Wendy, Belle Of The Dots |
Sandy: Actually, it was news of another blog that finally made me decide to restart the blog. It's been in the news that a blog and a book that claims to tell a true story about a teenaged girl that was bullied at school and committed suicide. Apparently the girl or her parents do not exist.
Wendy: Some say it doesn't matter whether it is true or fiction.
Sandy: And if it doesn't matter whether the story is true then why to say it is? Why not write the same stories without the lies?
There is a difference between an honest fiction with an important story and a story that is claimed to be true but is in fact a lie. And to think that people have bought the book thinking it's a true story they are paying for, not a badly written novel. If the writer had not received money and if she wasn't messing with such an important subject.
Wendy: It was horrible to read the article that revealed this hoax where they referred to studies that show that these idealizing reports of suicides increases the amount of new suicides.
Sandy: She should have written a style blog instead.
Wendy: It's unbelievable how the tv and newspaper reporters ate the story up without checking any facts.
Sandy: They forgot to check Wikipedia.
