I am cross-posting this at Tumble Dry. I read blogs. They’re funny, intelligent, brilliant, poignant, honest, inspirational, authentic, passionate, crafty, consistently cool, unflinchingly direct, dear, endlessly readable, and their authors have come to be my friends. I am not a master commenter, I tend to read and skip, read and skip. I know the majority of bloggers track their hits and know when I’ve been by, or if not me exactly, they know that nycap.res.rr.com has been on. Yet I know how precious comments can be, so I do try to slow down enough to leave them when I can. One name that is always there, no matter the blog and no matter my number in the line of commenters, Slouching Mom. She and…