Thank you for sharing

I recently listened to a CraftyPod podcast about crafting for money instead of just passion (CraftyPod #95, thank you Sister Diane, I’m a huge fan).  One of the things mentioned toward the end was how some bloggers are afraid of sharing “personal information”.  I started to think why this is so.  Like most people, when I hear those two words, I think of things like your phone number or ATM number or address.  Things you definitely do not want to get out there.  Things that can specifically identify you like your full name and social security number.  I guess with identity theft on the rise, this is just being smart.  Still, there are other types of “personal information”.  For example, I have a number of moles all over my body.  And if I mentioned certain specific areas of my body that have them, that would be very “personal”.  It’s not like I can be specifically identified by that, tons of people have moles and not all of them are in my family either.  Plus who would hold it against me for having them,  it’s not like someone wouldn’t hire me for having odd birthmarks in weird places.  The point is that sometimes it’s okay to share personal and maybe embarrassing info about ourselves, because it brings us closer to our readers and ourselves.  At least that’s how I interpreted it.  And if anything else, it’s makes for great reading.