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What better way to bond with your best friend than through a friendship blog!?! Tricia and Siana are the hilarious duo behind Two Girls On A Bench and together blog about all the things that make them smile…and think…and hungry. Read more about the life behind their blog and their unique friendship…
You have a great story behind your unique blog title. Will you share what inspired it?
We realized many years ago that whenever we were sitting on a bench, and it could be anywhere in the world, strange things always happened. Once, when were in Madrid, Spain, some young kids tried to rob us while we were drinking wine and sitting on a bench! Then an old man chased them down, brought us back our bags and scolded us for being stupid Americans… As a joke when we were working on a film project once we called it a Two Girls on a Bench Production and the name just stuck. Tricia drew a picture of us on the bench and that evolved into us taking pictures of ourselves on benches. We think of ourselves as observing life from a bench.
I love that the two of you blog together, how much time do you actually spend together?
We definitely have a Lucy & Ethel vibe. We were roommates in and after college and now live about a mile from each other. We were in each other’s weddings, Siana was waiting on a bench outside Tricia’s hospital room when she had her baby, people always ask us if we’re sisters even though we don’t think we look like each other, we’re pretty much as BFF as it gets. We usually try to get together at least once a week to write, hang out and eat snacks.
What do you think makes your blog unique to a lot of other blogs out there?
We try to write about writing, but realize that as all good writers do, we procrastinate a lot. We think it’s fun to share our procrastination with others because writing can be a very lonely and solitary activity and writers tend to get down on themselves for not accomplishing enough. Our blog celebrates the fact that we’re often distracted from the work of writing and highlights what we do to distract ourselves. We don’t claim to be experts or have great knowledge of what makes great writing, there are plenty of other people out there that do that well. We just want to share our antics with others and hopefully make them laugh and maybe share something we learned that week about writing, snacking or life in general. On accident this blog has become a lot about our friendship too – which is something we have learned from the comments people make. We’ve been writing together AND have been friends for 19 years – so it’s very easy for us to forget how that comes through in our conversations.
You recently took a break from blogging, did that help you get your mojo back?
We needed to take a break because our personal lives were a little crazy. It was a good break and we hope we have our mojo back, we’re at least talking about our script again. Of course we can’t find our copies of it or remember what our most recent edits mean, but we’ll figure it out.
What are your goals for your blog?
When we started this blog we had no idea that it would become such a big part of our lives. It was Siana’s husbands idea – and at first we really resisted it. Just because everyone was doing it didn’t mean we had to buy into the blog world. Why work on writing something other than our scripts? We couldn’t even finish those! And who would want to read it? However, now we love the blog (and Twitter) and look forward to our posts. And in turn, we’ve made Twitter and blogger friends for life, it’s a world we now embrace! We discovered that we are kind of funny – and not just to each other, our readers seem to like our humor, and enjoy joining in with our banter. It’s become an exercise in diligence for us, even though a lot of the blog is about procrastination and distraction. It keeps us writing and keeps our “spark” alive. These days if you hang out with us on the bench you are in danger of becoming the topic of a future blog, especially if you bring us snacks. As for goals, well, for now we want to keep at it, eventually sell a script, and when someone says “what are you really like as writers” – we can point to the blog and say “that.”
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Hot Baby – A Valley Birth Story: “The Bench is proud to announce the arrival of Ms. Elise!”
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What a great concept for a blog- and better yet- a great friendship strengthener!
This blog sounds like so much fun! I can’t wait to check it out!
What a great friendship…I think that is at the heart of this wonderful blog!
I have been laughing with these ladies for a while, I love hearing more about their story! Weird in all of blogland, the day I decide to check out this site, there is one of the millions of blogs I actually know right here! You ladies rcok and roll, see you over there (and on twitter) ๐
That’s amazing that you two have been friends for 19 years, wow! It really does come through in your writing!
Love the idea of best friends blogging together ๐
i loooooooooove this idea! my bff is in cali, and i am in kentucky. i forwarded her this and told her we need to do this! maybe how the two different lifestyles deal with the same thing. i miss her dearly, and i am so happy that you two get to share this wonderful experience together. great job, and just keep loving each other! friendships are so special and as we get older, they are harder to manage as life gets in the way. congrats on your sits day!
Hello Ladies!! Happy SITS Day, just heading out to browse your blog. Missing my BFF back home just reading about your blog. Blackberry Messenger is JUST NOT good enough :))
Hats off to you ladies! I’ve tried to partner blog with someone and it was pretty tough. Looks like you all are gettin’ it done!
awwwwww, I wish I could see my BFF all the time, and write with her…and live life just a little closer with her. You have a special gift, don’t take it for granted!
They are really stinking adorable! I have one best friend that is particularly/frighteningly on my wave length and I could totally see he and I doing something like this ๐ Excited to check out the rest of their stuff!
How fun to be able to spend so much time with your best friend! I wish I could do that.
Congrats!
Oh I love these two ladies! Couldn’t happen to better girls (now who’s sharing the snacks?)
That’s amazing that the two of you have been together so long! Love the blog. ๐
Cute! About to go check it out! ๐
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I love it when BFFs blog. They have such fun and interesting things to tell us!
Can’t imagine what fun it would be to blog with my best friend! Happy SITS day!
One day I would like to crash their place and have it be 3 Girls on a Bench, at least for an afternoon!!
Love Two Girls on a Bench! They are fabulous, witty writers who are wonderful friends as well! Be sure to check them out!!!
Happy SITS day Siana & Tricia! Sounds like you have a really unique and funny blog. Looking forward to checking it out!
Oh that sounds so fun! I write about writing on my blog as well, and I also have a habit of posting about what distracts me! It reminds me of a blog that I did…Great blog idea!
That’s a great idea. I wish I had a friend who wanted to blog with me.
What a great concept! How cute.
I love this blog! Thanks for sharing!!
What a great idea!
I love this. I wish I had a Lucy & Ethyl friend like this.
This blog shows what blogs are capable of: building and sustaining friendships and communities! Thank you so much for introducing me to such a thought-provoking, original blog!
This is a wonderful idea! All my besties live so far from me…I would love to be able to collaborate with them on something like this. And you are right…in blogging…writing at all, there feels like quite a bit of solitary confinement going on in the brain. No one knows what you’re trying to extract from your right side and can’t possibly help you root it out of there and onto the page…and your left side just keeps reminding you there is a clock…dinner to make, clothes to wash….and aren’t you supposed to sleep somewhere in that 24 hours… Lol…stuff like that. I commend you both! I’m gonna meander on over to your blog and see what’s what. Congrats on your SITS day ladies! Looking forward to balking you (blog stalking). =)
I’ll go check it out. Interesting concept-the bench happenings.
I’ve always been a total sucker for a great buddy story! This is awesome!
Happy SITS day, ladies. I’m going to stop by.
What a fantastic idea for a blog! And the part about observing life from a bench is beautiful.
This is such a stellar idea. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that y’all are hilarious!! โฅโฅโฅ
A best friends blog. What a great idea. ๐
What an awesome idea and friendship!!! So neat and inspiring ๐
Happy Tuesday Ladies!
Neat idea for a blog…
friends who blog! very nice.
I love your blog!
I heart you guys you were one of the first people I followed on twitter. So happy to see you back virtual chocolate sent your way. Props to the two dudes on couch
I love the concept of your blog! Can’t wait to check it out!
What an interesting blog! I’ll have to go check them out.
Happy SITS Day! Love the origin of your blog title! ๐
Those two girls are a hoot…..I love them and their blog….so funny and refreshing….
Friendship is what spawned the blog I write with three other friends. It’s a rich soil, isn’t it?
What a cute blog!! ๐
After checking out your blog….i’m hungry…..say…did you get a free slurpee on 7-11….I did…
I follow Two Girls on a Bench on Twitter! Cute Title & concept! ๐
Too fun … Can’t imagine putting two people’s thoughts into a blog, but it works for them!
Cute blog…