A Liebster of Faith?

Thanks to Nilanjana Bose at Madly-in-Verse  http://www.nilabose.blogspot.com
for giving me a Liebster Award. We are new found blog friends, thanks to A-to-Z and I appreciate her leap of faith to nominate me. 

Here goes nothing


ELEVEN QUESTIONS FOR MY NOMINEES TO ANSWER 

1.  Describe yourself in one word.  inwardly wacky

2.  What is your beverage of choice when you're sitting writing a blogpost?
Diet Coke

3.  Complete the sentence. I can't do without my ..........glasses

4.   Name the top five things on your bucket list  - travel, travel, and travel

attend an Olympic event, attend Mardi Gras??

5.   What is your relationship with James Bond?  I'd like a ride in an Aston Martin, preferable zooming through Italy

6.   If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
Back to Australia - I loved that country and people and want to see more

7.    What is the message that you would send out through your blog? Your life?
Have to laugh.  the world and people are crazy

8.   Every adult is a guardian to the children in his/her community. Agree?

yes - have to stay involved in the schools and parks/activities. But I admit I'm lacking in doing what I say

9.  Technology is making life...........better and also more complicated. It's a balance

10. Have you read any poetry beyond school? If yes, whose? Name a favourite poet.    Billy collins and Mary Oliver. I've been more open to poetry (and write some too) since school days (back then it was a chore)

11. Spring, summer, autumn or winter? Why?  Autumn - I was born in Ocotber, and I'm very good at raking leaves

Nila requested 11 random facts about myself. I'm being a rebel and giving 5 - 

1. I never broke a bone or tore anything until this toe tendon issue. Took me 57 years of clumsy close calls

2. I love photos or paintings of doors

3. Back when I was in college, I wrote a letter a week to my grandmother and she wrote back. We kept the postal service in business. To this day, I still enjoy old fashioned letter writing

4. Favorite comic strip - Pearls Before Swine

5. First thing I pack for a trip is reading material

Now I nominate some favorite folks for the Liebster Award

Betty at http://viewsfrombenches.blogspot.com

Andrea at http://maybeitsjustme.blogspot.com

Stephanie at http://stephie5741.blogspot.com

And I'm going to just have you folks give 10 random facts about yourself plus answer one key question - Where do you see yourself five years from now??

Congrats and enjoy being a Liebster

Thanks again to Nila Bose - Madly in Verse!!!

RULES OF THE LIEBSTER AWARD

If you have been nominated for The Liebster Award and you choose to accept it, write a blog post about the Liebster Award in which you:

·                     Thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog in your post.

·                     Display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a “widget” or a “gadget”.

·                     Answer XX questions about yourself, which will be provided to you by the person who nominated you.

·                     Provide X random facts about yourself.

·                     Nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 1000 followers.

·                     Create a new list of 5 questions for the nominees to answer.

List these rules in your post (copy and paste from here). Once you have written and published it, you then have to:

·                     Inform the people/blogs that you nominated that they have been nominated for the Liebster Award and provide a link for them to your post so that they can learn about it (they might not have ever heard of it!)