It’s been a while since the Sunshine Blogger Award has been in the spotlight. Sally Cronin (found at Smorgasbord Blog Magazine), a much-deserved nominee, nominated me, along with some other bloggers who are downright amazing. I am honored to be in their company. The Sunshine Blogger Award as peer-to-peer recognition given by fellow bloggers who bring positivity, creativity, and inspiration to the blogging community. Anyone nominated has a set of guidelines to follow: There are so many deserving fellow bloggers out there that I had a hard time selecting. Here are my nominees for this award and I hope they will pass the award on to some other of the many deserving writers out there: Janice Spina Diana Peach Teagan Geneviene Jemima Pett Bruce Goodman Nicholas Rossi Here are the questions Sally asked me. 1 Where is your favorite place in the world? The beach! Any beach. I grew up on the ocean, listening to its rhythmic waves and hearing the sound of the fog horn from Gurnett lighthouse on foggy nights. I find a great sense of peace walking in the water and feeling the waves break over my feet, and searching tide pools for intertidal animals is really enjoyable. I can watch waves breaking on rocks for hours, the up and down and spray of the water. It has been calculated that adult humans are 60% water, while children are 75-78%. I think I never lost the childhood water! Probably an octopus. They are incredibly smart and adaptive, which most people don’t realize. You can even make friends with them. It would be fun to have a conversation about their lives, which are regrettably short. I do not eat octopus. 3 If you only had two minutes to get out of your house, what would you grab? Assuming my husband could get out on his own, my two cats and my computer’s external hard drive. He would grab his own drive and as many photographs as he could carry! Memories are so important! And my cats would never forgive me if I left them behind. 4) What place you’ve lived or visited has remained special to you? Prague is probably the once place I love that is never far from my mind. My husband and I lived there for a year with a Czech family while doing research, and we have visited the city many times. Sadly, we’ve have lost many of our Czech friends in recent years. But the beauty and grandeur of the city remains, and I do love good Czech food. I never tire of traversing the Charles Bridge or meandering through Kampa, an island just off the bridge with lovely parks and old buildings. 5) If you were invisible, what three things would you like to do? 6) If you could pass two new laws, what would they be? 7) What two people would you like to invite for lunch (famous, dead or alive). Excluding Jesus, which might be a stretch, I would choose Leonard da Vinci and the first Queen Elizabeth. 8) What would you wish for if you could have ANYTHING? A longer life. I don’t want to miss my grandchildren’s’ growing up, and when you reach my age, each day is a gift and a jewel. 9) Apart from reading and writing, what other ways do you like to relax? Nothing out of the ordinary, I’m afraid. Swimming, of course. And sailing when I get the chance. I also like to cook and bake and use my writer’s group as a test kitchen for new recipes. I like to knit — children always need sweaters. I love watching mysteries and documentaries of historical events. I’m definitely a life-long learner, having taken a course in Gaelic at the University of North Carolina a few years back. What a difficult language! I would like to include travel, but our last trips were rather stressful, especially a tour of Scotland led by an energizer bunny on a run. 10) Do you have a phobia and do you remember how it started? My son tried to instill a phobia in me with his selection of pets when he was young: various snakes, lizards, iguanas, turtles, and a tarantula. Unfortunately for him, I liked all of them. I even learned how to inject our iguana with antibiotics when it got sick. It loved being stroked and would climb out of its terrarium when I came with the needle, looking for some loving! Heights are also not a problem. I also went sky-diving several years ago. What a thrill! So no real phobias! 11) You have 24 hours left on the planet! How would you spend them? That’s easy, with my family, with a lot of comfort food! Never mind the calories! Here are my questions for my nominees: I’m looking forward to the answers! 0 0
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