« Kids, Big Brother, or Big Dominatrix, is Watching—Ask Max
The word is out: Bloggers make millions »
23 04 2008

A blast from the past, thanks to a blog from the present

Posted by: Tom Keefe, in General, blogging, communications

I read (and write) warnings about the need to protect future job prospects and professional relationships by being careful about what we write in blogs. Someone interested in hiring me someday will learn a lot about me from the many posts I’ve written over the years.

But today I got a wonderful reminder about another side of blogging. It helps reconnect people separated by time and distance.

I received an email at work that contained the following exchanges:

Former college friend:

janey lou passed this along… keefe has a blog! and gray hair! and he’s suddenly morphed from a hip college dude into a suburban dad interested in family fun and spirituality. who knew?

Former college Journalism advisor:

YIKES!! Live in the present? And here I thought Keefe lived in the FAR OUT!

My reply to both:

Okay, the gray hair is true (better than NO hair), but the “suburban dad interested in family fun and spirituality” is only part of the puzzle. I still keep an eye on the dark side! [I threw in a link to the Big Dominatrix post from yesterday, just to show them how edgy I am these days.] I am thrilled to hear from you both! Please write back or call my cell so that we can catch up. I’m starting to crank up my podcasting as well as blogging, and maybe we can think of something to record together.

I would really enjoy reconnecting with the many great people I met at Eastern Illinois University, especially the daily student newspaper where we learned a lot about communications and life—both good and bad. Thanks to my blog, it looks like that will happen very easily!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 10:18 pm and is filed under General, blogging, communications. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “A blast from the past, thanks to a blog from the present”

  1. marcel says:
    May 9th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Hey Tom,
    Marcel again, I’m an urban Dad with a little gray hair, college age kids and trying to get in touch with a few friends from Eastern. Shoot me an email when you get a chance. I enjoy your blog.

  2. Tom Keefe says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    Hi Marcel!

    I’ve been wanting to get together with you as well. After I wrote this post, I heard from Reed, who asked whether I was going to Homecoming North next February, or whether I could play in the (Gene) Seymour Open on July 18.

    Homecoming North sounds good, depending on what else is happening that evening. I received clearance from the tower (Kim) to consider going to Charleston for the Seymour Open. I just hope that people remember to stay behind me when I tee off.

    I also heard from Dru Sefton, who is married to Andy Savoie.

    She said that Andy said to thank me for the green (army) coat. “The green coat would be, well, the notorious green coat. Huge and notorious. And brown, if you ask me. But then again perhaps it just turned brown after Andy wore it a few decades.”

    I wrote back to Dru and told her to tell Andy that I want the coat back. Of course that isn’t true–I gave him that coat over 20 years ago because it was time to pass it on to someone who would have an entirely new set of adventures while wearing it.

    Isn’t that kind of the plot of that book and chick flick, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants?” Once again, we were well ahead of our times, and missed out on a fortune because we didn’t write it down!

Leave a Reply