I’m launching my new Typing One-Handed section, a Weekly Blog Recommendation, today with a visit to 2nd Cup of Coffee. Linda Batt Crow is the author of one of my favorite places on the web. Before life got crazy last summer, 2nd Cup of Coffee was a regular stop on the web for me each day.

The first thing that attracted me was the catchy name. A coffee addict connoisseur myself, I couldn’t resist that first visit. I even made sure my cup was freshly filled while I read. Linda’s brand of humor is as alluring as her favorite drink is for we who are addicts connoisseurs.

Linda shares her life and interests so well, it’s like sitting at the table with your best friend and chatting away a free morning. Because she fills her posts with great photos and graphics that are relevant to the topic she’s addressing at the moment, you feel like she is sharing her family photo albums and home movies with you.

And Linda doesn’t keep all the attention on herself. She introduces you to her other girlfriends:

Linda occasionally sponsors “carnivals” on her blog. According to Wikipedia,”a blog carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains links to other blog articles on the particular topic.”

These are great ways for followers/friends of particular bloggers to get connected with each other. The first one I participated in was the Fall Into Flavor in October 2008. I enjoyed searching through my favorite Fall recipes and sharing them with the other participants. I copied every recipe from the other participants throughout the length of the carnival and put them together in a file for later use. I’ve actually even made a couple of them.

Linda has a two other locations on the blogosphere worth visiting as well:

Mocha with Linda is the location of Flashback Friday, a nostalgic (and sometimes downright hysterical) look at past fads, trends, or personal memories. Random Dozen is just what it sounds like: 12 random questions whose answers give you a bit deeper peek into one of the web’s funniest bloggers.

2nd Cup Columns is a collection of posts Linda has contributed to Internet Cafe Devotions, a website originally developed for Christian Women Online. Internet Cafe Devotions grew so popular that it merited a place of its own.

Linda’s style of relating life on her blogs makes 2nd Cup of Coffee a great place to refresh and recharge. Just be warned, reading her posts can lead to coffee/computer-related accidents. If you find yourself chuckling instead of just smiling, I advise you to put down your coffee before proceeding any further. I learned this the hard way, after spewing a nearly swallowed mouthful of delicious java all over my computer screen. Thankfully it was not my new laptop!

You can also find Linda on Facebook here.