Okay Reader, I’m going to jump right in. http://hereismars.wordpress.com/ Mars recommended me for the Versatile Blogger Award. \
I thanked her and waited in silence for an email to come over the horizon saying, “You’ve won our Versatile Blogger Award.” It doesn’t work that way.
My them for the April Challenge, MNINB, “It doesn’t work that way.”
So today, I am going to try to do several things at once. I am a superb multitasker, but whiz around so, I fall off the planet on a daily basis. My call to action comes at the end. First the award.
Thank you Mars, dear tender-aged Mars whose blithe spirit shines through and captures the poetic tendrils of my heart. http://hereismars.wordpress.com/ (repeated it). Select 15 bloggers I’ve recently discovered or have been following regularly. I nominate the blogs below for the versatile blogger award. (Advice: Google it, and following the instructions.)
http://swpulley.wordpress.com, long time friend, writer, lived in Bolivia and Chile 30 years, early member and continuing member of CHPercolatorCoffeeHouseFor Writers, and just one who you can roll around a floor laughing.
http://bahaithought.blogspot.com/
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/02/04/rainn-wilson-soulpancake/, I adore Soul Pancake, and use it in my writing classes at times. I also gave the book Soul Pancake to my granddaughter.
http://www.bendsintheroad.com/ I have connected with blogger and will do online interview!
http://blackwatertown.wordpress.com Northern Ireland, author and enchanting commentator; have been following him since he found me – how I don’t know. I think I had 7 followers then.
http://elenagorokhova.com/ Author of Mountain of Crumbs, on Goodreads, Russian heritage. I lived in Ukraine and Belarus, spent some time in Moscow and Siberia, follow her blog on Goodreads.
http://creativityontheloose.com/ new; intriguing; she was in a class of mine
http://thekitchensgarden.wordpress.com/ a new, refreshing blog about farm life, and well written. Sagas, small s really about lambs being born, lamb bloat, the birds; all have names, and the blogger’s pieces undo the knot in the back of my neck from my social media strain.
http://kofegeek.wordpress.com/ Kofegeek is a silly geometer, a lover of coffee and fresh carrot
http://catewrites.wordpress.com/feed/ An exquisite young writer, working on her first novel – we meet once a week and share our writing through prompts!
http://mrslittlejeans.blogspot.com/2012/04/our-cat-boys-are-tree-huggers.html
friend, who is a scientist, a Baha’i and who writes enchanting, whimsical pieces.
http://livingbackstreet.blogspot.com, a very talented artists. She had a stroke and since then she’s been producing the paintings you will see on her website.
http://holessence.wordpress.com/ one of the first bloggers to reach out at beginning of our MNINB April challenge, generous in spirit and knowledge
http://bridgetasher.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
terrifically informative re writing
http://debbieohi.com/home/atom.xml I love her art
Okay this is for the lovely Mars – 7 things about myself
1. I am 73, but have the writing voice of a 35 year old;p spunky, funny, deep, spiritual, whatever.
2. I am a twin; fraternal, she died a few years ago.
3. I am a member of the Baha’i Faith – since 1966 – was Catholic from Boston
4. I am a pug dog devotee
5. I have lived in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Minsk, Belarus, spent time at Lake Baikal in Siberia, looked across borders to Mongolia, stared at the biggest fattest head of Lenin in Ulan Ude, Siberia, and crawled across railroad tracks and clung to barely the inside of a train in Eastern Ukraine, and last I road on a bus with our interpreter who thought beings from Mars would soon pop up, and where the bus driver stopped the bus, and said about the quacking goose in our midst, “Off with his head,” but of course, the goose lived, and we did too.
6. I am a memoir addict, and started reading 4 books a day when I was 7; since then, my addiction has grown.
7. I teach several writing workshops, one of which to homeless women, and they rock.
dear E, thank you for putting me on your list of bloggers, I’m kind of at a standstill right now on my painting, and trying to write the story of the women in my family and that is what I’m doing now instead of painting. I’ll get back to it later. But I just wanted to stop for a while and get some perspective. The story is coming along but I’m not sure anyone would like to read it, it’s about women and their survival. If nothing else it may mean something to my children and will help them to understand who we were and we were so eccentric. Good luck on your ward you deserve it. Many hugs to you and Bill. ruie
I think women and their survival makes for an extremely compelling read. Good luck with your story.
what is your blog site? thanks for the notes!
thank you; yes, we all could write about that!
Congratulations on your award!
and the follow!
Edit: thank you for it!
Lovely thanks. How did I find you? It was providence.
Thanks for the interesting-looking list of others too.
providence goes across the Pond towards you too; i do feel a strong connection – stay well, stay verbal – enchanting
Okay, your blog is the reason I didn’t get more done today! What a box of chocolates! Thank you for this. I am forever a fan and a follower! Here’s to being 75 years young!
life is a whirlwind, thanks for the comments; always ups the spirits, regards, e
I’m 73; thanks for your liking; amazing how are world just got bigger!
Sorry…never good with numbers! I’m pretty sure 70 is the new 30, and I’m just starting in on my 50s so I have a lot of growing up to do!
Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing these facts about you, dear. Also for sharing a comprehensive list of blogs that I know would all be worth the read! I never would have guessed your age! I think it’d be awesome to attend one of your writing workshops! How thoughtful it is for your to share your gift to others… 🙂
enchanting we connect over the waves; yes i have the voice of a 35 year old, buoyancy grows from tests and difficulties, tragedies and joy; it gets better each day; love e
i answered; did it go through? hugs
Thank you so much for sharing your friends. The tentacles of magic swirled out from your post and began to weave magic in my head before I even got to the links you listed. Dare I hope your magic will extend to my circle of friends through the Three Sisters I’m sure you had numerous, varying experiences you can tell us about, but you selected humor to convey your thoughts. I can so picture the exasperated bus driver barking out his orders, never intending them to be acted upon.
we will continue all this; we are all in the same wordbowl, and soon will get our little water wings!
Esther!!!
Thank you so much for the nomination! It made my day! Never mind a day – It made my week! I can’t wait to meet your readers for our on-line interview. They must be an incredible bunch to follow an adorable person like you! 🙂
Like you, I was raised Catholic, but my philosophy of life is very much Buddhist. The church I attend is a Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The UU church with it’s foundation in the unity of God is similar to the Baha’i faith, I believe. We’ll have to chat about that. I believe that the principles of the UU church are very similar to your faith.
Books – would’t be able to live without them. They have helped me especially over the last 8 years when my health started to deteriorate. But we’ll let your readers know more when we have our interview.
You’re the bomb and I had to let you know! You attract people to you like a magnet and I am so blessed to have been one of them. 🙂
All my best –
Monique
Dear One-did you get my questions? If so, can we chat back and forth on email-mine is estherbill@gmail.com; thank you for your kind words-i think people are a blast, and i think you’re pretty wonderful
Very cool Esther! I’m impressed.
Thank you; appreciate your reading and yoru comments!
Thank you so much Sorrygnat. I am really sorry for my late response, I was not in a good condition 🙂 This is my 1st day to get blogging again, and I am happy to know this. I was thinking about loosing my reader since I was vacuum for almost 2 weeks but you made my day 🙂 I have just updated my award page, thank you Sorrygnat, a big hug for you =^_^=
We all have ups and downs, and I have had a lot of illness in the past. Sometimes we write. Sometimes we don’t write. But, it’s all grist for the mill. You keep on truck’in girl!
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