My name is Kate Loving Shenk and I am a Blog-a-holic.

Blog-a-holism can be defined as when you have 4 or more blogs you religiously add content to.

I presently have 11 blogs. I think I need to stop here and now.

Unlike Alcoholism or other kinds of drug addiction, I am strengthening my brain nerves and muscles and those tiny tendrils that send messages down my spine and to all parts of my body.

I now feel constantly tingly all over!

While my friends sit with puzzle books in the attempt to prevent Alzheimer's, I just write my blogs with the intention of enjoying my new found prolific writing habit.

And yes, my brain loves it. My heart loves it, too.

My health is vibrant, alive and happy.

Writing blogs and dancing are beautiful companion activities.

One hastens circulation, the other increases inspiration.

Doing one leads to the other.

In fact, writing blogs is my dance partner, my love, the way I measure my steps, moves and grace in this world.

Writing prolifically isn't the discipline I feared it would be. In fact, it is the opposite. Discipline implies some sort of concerted effort, one that is performed with a sense of duty, grim, grit and humorless determination.

Blog-a-holism goes hand and hand with reading 3-5 books at one time. Thankfully on the Dogs And Dolphins Ning, Ildiko Minko has created a book discussion forum so the book-a-holics in the group can write about sudden flashes of idea-spiration and write about these as the spirit so moves.

Blogs, books and pen-a-holism is the holy trinity of the Internet thinking world.

Nurses used to be able to get pens galore from pharmaceutical drug representatives, but our hospital passed a "no solicitation policy." These pens and gadgets are a thing of the past. We get pens with hospital logo printed on them. I do have a collection of those.

But these days, I buy my pens at super markets and office supply stores and have collected quite the stash, befitting a-holic status!

Fountain pens leak ink at inopportune times. Yet, i love the idea of a fountain pen that writes well and smoothly.

The cheap Sheaffer fountain pens that Natalie Goldberg recommended in her early writing books were fun, but aren't on the market anymore.

Did 9/11 take those beauties away along with free speech, the Geneva Convention and Freedom of the Press?

Blogging is the greatest guarantee that I can say whatever I want to say, and others may either read or not read.

What a beautiful medium.

Blogging is done for a variety of reasons: for business, promotion of products or of oneself, or as a diary, and in the process people meet and get to know you.

They bond with you and want to read what you have to say.

At first, I wrote on my blogs, seemingly all alone, perhaps with angelic protection, with 2 dogs lying at my feet, or barking to play ball, but mainly my blogs, my dogs, my computer and the thousands of thoughts vieing for headline attention.

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