Honesty...the Best Policy?

In the past couple of months my blogs have gotten exceedingly more personal. As vulnerable as I felt at first, the more open my posts tend to be, the better the response. My hits have quadrupled and then some. (Ka-ching!)

With this meteoric rise (what? That is what they'll say someday) have come some hurt feelings. The fact is, I do exaggerate and embellish in my writing, but I do the same in real life. I'm dramatic, I exaggerate, and I'm animated. It's just who I am. This is a blog about my life from my perspective. And from my perspective, if you don't want me to discuss something you did or said to me, then don't do it in the first place. I never intentionally post things on here to hurt someone's feelings, but instead to draw humor from the absurd situations I seem to find myself in. (I seem to find myself in them more frequently than most.)

With that, I deleted my post from today about my date. I consider myself an open book, but I realize that there are other people involved who might not be as eager for me to share the details of their lives, or my opinions about them.

As always, I'm a work in progress. To other bloggers...how do you find a balance between honesty and privacy?

And remember: if you don't have anything nice to say, sit next to me. (Just make sure you say it's off the record.)