You may have noticed that my blogroll is pretty selective. When I first started The Glittering Eye I had a very few, top-of-the-line blogs in it. As my own blogging matured and as I read more and more blogs myself I made the conscious decision to limit my blogroll to blogs that I felt represented the very finest in the blogosphere and, especially, those that weren’t in the Top 100 Blogs and deserved additional recognition. There are lots and lots of blogs that I read every day that I don’t blogroll. And I don’t do reciprocal blogrolling. Perhaps someday I’ll do what other bloggers have done and set up a separate reciprocal blogroll.
You can see that one of the great blogs that I have put into my blogroll is Caerdroia. When Jeff Medcalf, the chief-cook-and-bottle-washer of Caerdroia recently posted that he was considering looking for a billet elsewhere I jumped at the chance and offered him the opportunity to post on The Glittering Eye any time he cared to. Writers as skilled and insightful as Jeff don’t wander by every day.
Jeff has been good enough to take me up on my offer and you’ll be reading his posts here whenever he feels like posting. Although I think that Jeff’s views and mine are pretty compatible they’re not identical. His interests and strengths are somewhat different from mine. Over on Caerdroia he’s posted on subjects including politics, foreign policy, technology, neo-paganism, home-schooling, and family. Every post had great sensitivity and perceptivity and I eagerly awaited the next one. I hope he’ll bring those same qualities here.
