I want to thank The writer, the reviser, the visualizer at Write Or Revise Daily (WORD!) for choosing me for a Versatile Blogger award (http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/)! Write or Revise Daily is one of my favorite blogs and it’s a treat as well as an honor to be recognized by a fellow blogger!

For those of you who, like me, aren’t familiar with how this works, there are rules. Rule #1, don’t talk about Versatile Blogger award. Wait, that is definitely not right!

The real rules are as follows.

Thank the award-giver and link back to them in your post.

Done and Done. But thanks again! I appreciate the recognition and encouragement.

Share 7 things about yourself.

1. I don’t handle praise or recognition well. It’s not that I don’t welcome or appreciate it. I do! But although I often come across as an extrovert, I am actually shy about being in a spotlight not of my own making.

2. Although I have been a writer all of my life, I was first published as a photojournalist when I was a teenager. I put away my camera professionally in favor of a keyboard long ago, but this blog is allowing me the chance to revisit my photographic roots a bit.

3. Speaking of journalism, I once owned and published a weekly newspaper.

4. I was born and lived most of my life in the incredibly, landlocked, ocean-free Midwest.

5. In 2011 I decided it was a good time to have a mid-life crisis and rather than buy a sports car I relocated from snowy winters to a southern city with a beach.

6. I live in an all-creative household. My husband is a poet, photographer and writer. My son is an artist, lapsed poet, and master of puns. My daughter is a dancer and writer.

7. My favorite food is sushi.

Pass this award along to 15 others.

I am nominating blogs I always look forward to reading. Each of them has something that draws me back post after post no matter how busy I think I am. Hope you enjoy them as well! They are, of course, in no particular order.

1. Fibromy-Awesome
2. Cerridwen’s Cauldren
3. 1 Story A Week
4. Terribly Write
5. Wordsmith Six
6. Writers Write Daily
7. Susie Lindau’s Wild Ride
8. Robotic Rhetoric
9. Word Flows
10. David Gaughran
11. Savvy Writing Careers
12. Outside the Box
13. Villanova Junction
14. Cdeminski’s Blog
15. Alice Dusenberry

I also want to link to one more blog that would have made this list if he hadn’t been the one to nominate The writer, the reviser, the visualizer...Pete Denton – Writer. Maybe now I’ll get around to adding each of these to my blogroll?

Contact your chosen bloggers.

In process!

Thanks again to Write Or Revise Daily for the vote of confidence and to everyone for reading.