Why Read Another Author's Blog?

I don't know about most of you, but I'm sick of what I see in women's magazines. For one thing, everything in them seems to be slanted toward making me buy something. I'm not talking the ads in the magazines here. Fair is fair and ads pay the bills. However many of the articles seem to be skewed toward new purchases also. Many magazines out there are very frank about it too, telling the reader that one of the magazine's purposes is to inform the reader about shopping.
I know that our economy is dependent upon consumer spending, but I don't like feeling as though it is my sole purpose in life. C'mon!
Also as a baby boomer, many magazines are not interested in me as a reader. They want a younger crowd and women my age are neither pictured nor addressed in the articles. I'm not talking Seventeen here, or even Glamour. I am officially too old for Good Housekeeping, and Redbook and forget any of the fitness magazines. Self and Shape and the like are pretty much focused on younger women.
Which leaves me and thousands of women like me with Reader's Digest, Prevention, and of course, More, the me magazine of the over forties.
I want something else. Something that addresses me intellectually. Physically. Emotionally. And dare I say it? Spiritually.
I'm a wife, a mother, a writer, a (not very fast) runner, a gardener who needs help with her weeds and info on what to do with her too many irises, a member of a community who is concerned with not just her community or state, but what is going on with the world. A Christian and a neighbor and a tree hugger who would like to conserve for the coming generation but who would like to do it inside suburbia.
Maybe blogging is the answer. At least I'm hoping to find out the answer to the question:
Are there others out there like me?
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