When I first became interested in exploring Christianity, I hardly knew any Christians, and the ones I did know weren't actively practicing their faith at that time. When I started to be drawn to the Catholic Church, I was even more lost. We had a few Catholic friends but none of them lived close by, and I didn't know any of them well enough to open up about the details of my potential conversion, which at the time I considered to be a very private matter.

So, in typical me fashion, I turned to the internet. I had no idea how one would go about finding blogs by practicing Catholics, so I just Googled stuff like "Catholic mom blog", "Catholic blog", "Christian mom blogs", etc. It took me a while to find what I was looking for, but I finally found a few blogs written by Catholic and other Christian women. I added them to my bookmarks, sat back, and read. I almost never commented. I just quietly watched their lives unfold, like an anthropologist studying a new culture. Almost everything they did was so foreign to me -- they casually mentioned praying about this or that, wrote about the goings on at their churches, discussed how they turned to God in tough times and disappointment, etc. I had never known anyone who did things like this (at least not that they shared with me), so I was fascinated.

Since then I've been wondering: is there any sort of Christian duty when it comes to blogging?