Take My Poll

At the very bottom of my blog there is a poll. I would like everyone who visits here with any regularity at all to please take it because polls are one of my favorite things EVER. Plus I really really want to know the answer to my question. I've asked before and gotten one or two responses (OK, maybe a few more than that).

I have read more blogs in the past week than I have in the past few months and it has made me think (again) about what blogs do for people, about what mine is doing for anyone besides myself, and how does one decide on focus? I am currently categorized in one of Blogher's food sections and when I had to say what I talk about most on my blog I thought food was the obvious answer months ago. However, I go long periods of time without mentioning how much cheese I'm eating or what's cooking in my kitchen. So Blogher is going to kindly move me to the parenting section.

But, is that really where I belong? Half the day I'm looking at people with their kids and thinking

"This whole parenting thing is a crock."
"There are too many kids in this world."
"Why do people keep having more kids?"
"Wow, kids are annoying."

I'll be the person in parenting who pisses every doting loving mother off because when anyone asks me how wonderful having kids is with those dewy baby-loving eyes I have to practically bite my tongue in half to keep myself from saying "Why do you want to go messing up a perfectly good life with babies?"*

When I hear any woman pining for one more baby than she already has I want to scream on the top of my lungs:

WASN'T THE LAST ONE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?!!!

Nothing makes a person more lynchable popular than when you ask them that question.


So, where do I belong? How can I tell if I should be focusing more on one subject than another? What does everyone want to hear about the most? It's all right there in the poll. You can tell me anonymously what you like best about my blog.

Focusing on a single subject is very hard for me. If I focus on only homesteading then where do I channel all my mental health stuff? Where does the rare parenting post go? Where do I direct my razor sharp political viewpoints?

I've noticed that most blogs that enjoy any kind of busy traffic are single subject blogs. Is it really true that everyone prefers single subject blogs?

*I am obviously not very baby friendly. Which is funny because when I see them in real life I feel very comfortable around them and enjoy their drooling little faces. Is it possible to be fine with something in real life but to be philosophically opposed to it? I believe I'm philosophically opposed to people have lots of babies and feel quite fiercely about it, yet, I have never met a baby I thought shouldn't have been born.