A Personal Invite to YOU

I have been honored to take part in many features that are hosted by other bloggers and their sites. Honestly, writing for those features is really a lot of fun for me. Not to mention that you get some exposure for your blog on another site.

Themed blog-a-thons about movies are always fun to write for. Dave Ruch’s musical Turntable Talk feature is one of my favorites to participate in. Recently, Max at the PowerPop Blog did a week or two feature on the Kinks and their music. He said that he got a lot of positive feedback from that. Then, of course, we had our Song and TV Show Drafts which was a wonderful stroll down memory lane.

With that in mind, some of my blogger friends have said that I should host some sort of feature where my followers could join in and contribute a piece to be posted here. I have gone back and forth on whether or not this would be something that anyone might be interested in doing. Before making the decision, I thought I would ask for your opinion.

I called my site the Nostalgic Italian, because that’s who I am. I love the things of the past. I have no doubt that every reader of this blog has some sort of nostalgic memory that they could share. Let me say, without spoiling it for anyone, that I have a topic in mind. I randomly asked the question at work last week and was amazed at how passionate some of my coworkers were about it and how it led to about an hour long conversation.

So, if you think that you might be interest in taking part, I’d like to you comment here. Better yet, drop me an e-mail at: nostalgicitalian@yahoo.com. If you’d like to know the topic before deciding, I will e-mail it to you. I was thinking that this could be something that runs for a week or two (with every blogger getting a day devoted to their piece) in mid to late October.

If there is enough interest, I will compose an email with the topic and instructions. I’ll give a dead line to get your piece to me and then send out a schedule of when each piece will post. This works well with Dave and his Turntable Talk, so I see no need to do it any differently.

I’m not sure what to expect, but I really hope you will consider taking part. Why? Because I am truly interested in your answer to the question and it will let you explore your childhood a bit while coming up with that answer. If it turns out like I think it will, YOUR piece will not only bring back memories for you, but it will stir up memories for the other readers, too.

If you need more info – don’t hesitate to reach out.

Thanks in advance. I hope to hear from you!!