I’m a Blogger | Uli Gulje

1. What is your name? Uli Gulje
2. What is your blog’s title and URL? Half Past Awesome. www.halfpastawesome.com
3. What is your blog about? Random musings on getting older, being a parent, being a fireman and uninformed social commentary
4. Why did you start blogging? I just started writing again for the first time in 18 years and thought it might be a way to force my thoughts on an unsuspecting public. I really enjoy the interactive part of blogging and hope that it can one day translate into a full time endeavor
5. What’s your favorite Springfield restaurant? Hmmmmm……a toss up between Patton Alley Pub and The Grotto. One for the Guinness, one for the food. Bijans if we’re gonna get all fancy-like.
6. What’s your full-time job? I’m a firefighter here in Springfield. I drive Ladder Truck 2, up on Commercial Street; Let’s just say there is no shortage of material from which to draw.
7. What else do you do for fun? I play on the fire department ice hockey team, I wage war against the battle of the bulging waist and I’m an extreme amateur woodworker.
8. What words of blogging wisdom would you like to share with your fellow bloggers? It turns out there’s no easy formula for drawing people into your writing; let your perspective determine your audience. If folks find you funny, informative or helpful, AND THEY ACTUALLY COMMENT, then that’s just the icing, right?
9. What’s been your biggest blogging success? I have an offer to collaborate with an author on a blog/book project, which will hopefully lead into writing my own book
10. What’s your favorite local blog? Why? I’d have to say Fair City News, since it contains the kind of humor that demands constant wit and attention to subtle deviance that keeps me laughing. But that question is like asking who your favorite child is – as I meet more and more of the local bloggers, I find myself following all of them, and appreciating all that they are contributing to the local writing scene. I really am grateful for the feedback from the local bloggers association – thanks Sarah Jo Austin for all your hard work!!

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