I am a blogger now

05/05/2009 11:42 AM

By Bonnie McGrath

photo by Michael Sturino

Howdy to Blogland

Birds do it, bees do it--and even if they don’t, it’s only a matter of time. So I’m going to start doing it. Thanks to the Chicago Journal, who is giving me a spot in cyberspace in which to blog.

I figure I’m spending 16 hours a day online anyway--and sending hundreds of emails during that period, most with some observation or point of view that I just have to tell someone. So why not accept this offer from CJ and expand my daily audience? I will be your South Loop Observer.

All my idols seem to be blogging: Nora Ephron, for instance, blogs on Huffington Post, as does one of my college classmates and friend, Carol Felsenthal, who is a famous biographer of people such as news legends Katherine Graham and S.I. Newhouse and the post-White House Bill Clinton (“Clinton in Exile”).

After 22 years of being a regular columnist somewhere--Naperville City Star, Chicago Tribune, Illinois Bar Journal, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and CJ (which will continue), as well as being a contributing writer at the Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times and a contributing editor at the old Lake Magazine, and now Shore Magazine, I am making the virtual big leap. After having work included in two anthologies and winning seven major (print) journalism awards, I will enter the new world.

So, friends, here I go….

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By zelzah001
Posted: 06/10/2013 1:41 AM

As a blogger you must be able to have a lot of knowledge. A knowledge that can attract people. - Brenda Lee Reed

By Jodi
Posted: 07/24/2009 1:00 PM

Hi Bonnie! I really enjoy your writing and your blog. This keeps me in touch with my old South Loop neighborhood (Michigan & Roosevelt) - it certainly has grown in the last 5 years that I have been away from Chicago! I will make sure to check this often!

By Karen Schulz-Harmon from Kenwood
Posted: 06/15/2009 10:14 PM

Hi Bonnie, Nice to see you here and best of luck to you! :) +Karen

By Jill Millicent Gans from Near North
Posted: 05/28/2009 4:44 PM

Congratulations! This is very exciting and I am looking forward to reading my new favorite blogger.

By Diane Wilson from Oak Park
Posted: 05/20/2009 11:13 AM

Very cool! Congratulations!!!! Diane

By D. Rahim from Rogers Park
Posted: 05/20/2009 8:30 AM

Now I know where I can find you 24/7. Congrats on joining the blogsphere!

By Joann Leonardi from Logan Sq/New Castle, DE
Posted: 05/14/2009 5:06 PM

Congratulations Bonnie, I've missed being able to read your work since I moved, now I have a place to go and read your fun stories and hear about my second love Chicago. By the way you look good in that tub.

By Nancy G from Northern Burbs
Posted: 05/08/2009 10:46 PM

Your blog is blogger-ific!

By Deborah McCoy from Logan Square Chicago
Posted: 05/07/2009 10:42 PM

Wonderful. Of course I'm bookmarking you as well. I'm looking forward to following you! xoxo

By pugwomyn from Rogers Park
Posted: 05/07/2009 8:44 PM

Yay, I am bookmarking you!

By bonnie mcgrath from south loop
Posted: 05/07/2009 4:42 PM

yep--it's a bathtub. it was taken at a friend's xmas party/housewarming in oak park (old neighbors from the south loop) a few months ago. it's a gorgeous tub--and i was just itching to try it out, albeit fully dressed!

By carol felsenthal from Old Town
Posted: 05/07/2009 8:05 AM

Way to go, Bonnie! You write me THE BEST comments on my musings, so I know you'll be a first-rate conveyor of insights and original takes on the news. I will not hire you, however, to take care of any technical difficulties I might have. Neither you nor another smart friend of mine of about the same age can figure out how to post on huffington. I had to post her comment on my last blog. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-felsenthal/oh-my-todd-stroger-an-exe_b_197793.html

By Slowpoke
Posted: 05/07/2009 5:57 AM

I'm glad the Chicago Journal is finally using a really good photo of Bonnie. Is that a bathtub she's sitting in?

By Paul from Wrigleyville I
Posted: 05/07/2009 5:03 AM

Congratulations. Blogging won't get ahywhere until they find a new, more glamorous word for it -- Life Magazine would never have gotten off the ground if they called it Blog.