Right away, I knew exactly the type of entries I would read when visiting “Hooah Wifeâ€. In short, the author of the weblog is Greta, who is a very proud military wife. Her posts usually reflect this in some manger.
Blogger powers the site, but Greta’s went to extensive work to stray from the packaged templates that are so ubiquitous. In true military style, the design uses red, white, and blue throughout the layout. She’s chosen a three-column layout, which works nicely for the amount of content she includes. The side columns border the daily entries, and are filled with links, webrings, archives, credits, and anything else you can imagine.
Greta advertises her “new blog†called “Elephant in My Coffee†in May 2005. “Elephant in My Coffee†is a collaborative effort with a couple of other authors, so Greta keeps on plugging away on her own weblog, too.
Random bit of technical info – I read the first two months of posts, feeling bad for the author that there were never any comments left in the earlier months – the comment counter always shows zero comments had been made. It wasn’t until the third months of posts that I finally clicked on the link to leave a comment, where I saw that people are leaving comments – the JavaScript for the Haloscan comments just isn’t showing how many comments are left. At some point through the site, the comments link finally started showing up correctly. Rather odd!
I mentioned earlier that Greta’s posts reflect her position as a military wife. The archives on this site date back to October 2004, shortly before the 2004 Presidential election for the United States. There is not a post that is written from the time the weblog starts to the day of the election that fails to mention why voters should re-elect President Bush. This, of course, could easily turn Democratic voters away from reading anything else, but it seems like the majority of the regular visitors to this site tend to agree with Greta’s political beliefs.
Greta writes about an entire realm of things. Over the past year, many of her posts have been closely related to her husband being deployed to the Middle East. Fortunately, he gets to call and email what seems like somewhat regularly, and it looks like he will be coming back home sometime in the very near future. Reading about Greta’s “temporary single parent lifeâ€, as she often puts it, and how she copes with the news coming over form that part of a world definitely gives readers a different look into what we only hear or see in the media.
The opinions expressed on this weblog walk a fine line of being the best thing about it and being the lone thing that deters visitors with differing opinions. Personally, I have just about the exact opposite of political beliefs that Greta has. While I found the constant reaming of the Democratic party to get a little on the tiresome side, I looked back at my own weblog and realized she would probably think the same thing of my opinions.
I would recommend this site for people living in the United States, curious about what really goes on in the personal side of our military. We hear the stories from newspapers and TV, but this gives readers a real insight to what happens behind the scenes with this Hooah Wife and her family. NULL