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Liebster Blog Award

My friend and author +Katherine Vucicevic has nominated me for the 


Liebster Blog Award


Katherine is an amazing person! I appreciate her sense of humor and her inspiring love for writing. Read the posts on her Blog that tell the many details of her incredible life! She is also the owner and moderator of the community on G+ entitled  Authors - Blatant Promo 4 Writers, Blogs!


So what's it all about?

These are the rules for the
Liebster Blog Award:

  1. List eleven random facts about yourself.
  2. Nominate eleven other bloggers for the Liebster Blog Award. 
  3. Notify these bloggers.
  4. Ask eleven questions that the bloggers must answer upon accepting the Liebster Blog Award. 
  5. Answer the eleven questions that you were asked when you were nominated. 
  6. Link back to the person who nominated you.

 Eleven random facts about me:

1. I hate to shave.
2. I grew a full beard by the time I was 16.
3. I compulsively buy books.
4. I could watch sports all the time.
5. I could watch movies all the time.
6. I could read all the time.
7. I love bold, dark roasted coffee.
8. I still like to write by hand.
9. I sometimes dream in vivid color.
10. Sometimes my dreams turn into stories or poems.
11. I love jazz.


Eleven questions for my nominees:

1. What was the funniest movie you have seen? 
2. What’s your earliest memory? 
3. What was your favorite school subject? 
4. Have you EVER had a need to use algebra away from a school environment? (No, seriously!) 
5. Do you understand modern art (or even know if it’s hanging the right way up?) 
6. Most enjoyable book? 
7. Ever spent money to buy something you really wanted, although you could hardly afford it at the time? 
8. Apart from when you were a child, have you ever danced in the rain? 
9. What country would you like to visit that you have not yet been to? 
10. What makes you grumpy?
11. What’s your  ’Go To’ switch to make you feel better on a gray day?


My answers to the eleven questions:

1. Not sure about the funniest movie I've ever seen but any comedy starring Cary Grant especially "Bringing Up Baby".
2. One of my earliest memories is of falling down on the ice on a steep hill in winter and getting a huge lump on my head when I was about two years old.
3. My favorite school subject was history.
4. Never use Algebra I or II or III.
5. "I don't know art but I know what I like."
6. One of the books I really enjoy to read is "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas.
7. Probably.
8. I like to walk in the rain and have fallen in the rain a few times--does that count?
9. I would like to visit Ireland.
10. Getting woken from a great dream makes me grumpy.
11. A perfectly brewed cup of Starbuck's coffee or a jazz tenor sax piece like Paul Desmond's performance in "Take Five" gets me going on a gray day.


Congratulations to my nominees! The Blogs listed here are unique and include emerging Bloggers and Poets!

My nominees are:










Thanks again +Katherine Vucicevic !




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