There’s a new blogger on Freethought Blogs.
A month ago I got a text message in all caps from Miriam, head blogger extraordinaire at Brute Reason. (Text messages from Miriam are almost always in all caps.) This one said:
KATE. THEY ASKED ME.
What followed was ten minutes of me leaping about and shrieking on a train platform in Chicago. At the other end of the phone, she sounded stunned.
A week later, Miriam was on my porch jumping up and down. “It’s official!”
See, I’m pretty familiar with this new FreethoughtBlogger. After all, we live two blocks from each other, attend Northwestern with a major in psychology, and are on the exec board for NU’s Secular Student Alliance. Oh, right, and she’s one of my best friends.*
Blogging with coffee (for me) and energy drinks (for Miriam) at 2 a.m.
I actually read Brute Reason (ruining your fun since 2009!) months before I met Miriam (Fun fact: we met at a church.), mainly for the mental health content. Her archives aren’t up, but be assured you’ll like them all. Now go say hi!
*Before someone yells hivemind, I’m not on the panel of people selecting new bloggers, nor am I part of the decision-making process for writers. And if you’d read Miriam’s writing, you’ll see why she was picked in the first place.
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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Miriam
December 1, 2012 at 1:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thank you, love.
Andrew Tripp
December 1, 2012 at 2:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
10/10 would read.
Gretchen
December 1, 2012 at 3:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
researchtobedone
December 1, 2012 at 4:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Before someone yells hivemind, I’m not on the panel of people selecting new bloggers, nor am I part of the decision-making process for writers.
Psh. Only a hivemind could make decisions this good so consistently. I AM TIRED OF YOUR LIES!
Miriam, Professional Fun-Ruiner
December 1, 2012 at 6:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Wait, we met at a church?!
Kate Donovan
December 1, 2012 at 7:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I just leaned over and told Miriam this, but for everyone else, we met at an interfaith event at a non-denominational church.
Stephanie Zvan
December 2, 2012 at 12:09 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Wait. She drinks energy drinks? Oh, see, nobody told us that in the interview. Uh, oh.