Different people have different blogging styles and different approaches to commenting. I'm writing this because of a few recent posts and some comments I have made. I don't think I have the balance of supportive and advice right that I see in comments from other people, which is a compliment to all of you.

I tend to read blogs where people write about the things that are going in their lives and relationships. Reposting of news articles in a post, without adding their perspective is not as interesting TO ME.

Perhaps it's my living vicariously by reading about the passion in other people's lives. I guess it parallels my interest in reading novels with "emotional" content that I mentioned earlier and how I share personal stuff in my posts.

In my comments I think I try to do too much problem solving instead of just "listening" and expressing understanding. Too much giving of advice as I try to be useful, instead of just making a supportive, though "safer", comments, which I know can be useful as well.

I'm not saying anything about anyone else's comments or implying anything wrong with them, just that I need to learn that judicious balance between being supportive and too much advice that other people have.