Here's where a general query by email for specific examples might serve you best. But there are a few public troves to dig through, standing as the equivalent of awesome bins of vinyl records at the coolest hole-in-the-wall shop you might ever find. Or so I'd like to think.
My primary personal blog - andthefamilybuick.com - was a labor of love for nearly 5 years. I wrote extensively about politics, pop culture and my travels. I won some awards, met some people, and then stepped back off that ledge in the fall of 2010. The archives are still up and often quite relevant. To get an extensive, widely-sourced view of what I did as a blogger, you should head that direction. In 2010, I created a neighborhood blog for the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" (please call it the "Seattle PI"). We live in Northeast Seattle, the Editors needed to call it "North" Seattle to promote it further. After a hilarious conversation with the poet, Robert Pinsky, I put my contribution to that blog on hiatus. But my work there is still up. Heavy on the humor, possibly universal in the appeal, very much my view of this part of Seattle in the attitude. This sort of work dates all the way back to my days as a columnist for my hometown newspaper in Wisconsin after college (and many places in between). Let me know if you're looking for more of it.
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I've run a few marathons in the last few years. After taking better than a decade off to get all husky and unmotivated. In 2010, I rediscovered my love for racing, My running blog from that effort is still up - youshouldrun.com. Along the way to qualifying for the Boston Marathon this upcoming April, I had planned to re-up the effort on this blog. But then Boston did something funky with qualifying times that will take a bit too long to explain. So no Boston this April. Water under the bridge. But I continue to run, hoping to emulate what others writers such as Haruki Murakami do to balance their running and daily writing regimens. If you run, ran or might choose to do so, I recommend checking out my reflections on the process.
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