The Versatile Blog Award and the Liebster Blog Award
February 17, 2012 by Lillie
Thanks to Dominique at 4Walls and a View for nominating this blog for two awards. If you aren’t a regular reader of Dominique’s blog, I encourage you to stop by and read some of her excellent posts. She blogs about chronic illness, but she will inspire you to face and overcome whatever challenges you have in your own life.
You can read the full rules of the Versatile Blogger Award on the VBA website. Basically,the nominated blogger is to nominate fifteen excellent blogs that she reads regularly or has recently discovered and tell the blogger who nominated her seven things about herself.
Dominique (and anyone else interested) can read seven random things about me in an earlier post.
I am nominating the following fifteen bloggers, who are among my favorite regular reads, for the Versatile Blogger Award.
- Barbara Swafford, Blogging without a Blog
- Bluestocking, The Bluestocking Guide
- Carl Holland, Carl’s Words of Inspiration
- Christopher Roberts, Christopher Roberts’ Philosophy Blog
- David Bowles, The Westward Sagas
- Dawn Colclasure, Dawn Colclasure’s Blog
- Doris Plaster, Hold My Hand: A Social Worker’s Blog
- James Doughty, Doughty Families
- Jan McClintock, We Need More Shelves
- Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer
- Karen Fisher Alaniz, Story Matters
- Misti Sandefur, Christian Fiction Author
- Renae Brumbaugh, Funny Coffee Girl
- Rhys Bartle, How to Preach
- Sally Ferguson, Sally’s Words
The Liebster Blog Award is named for a German word meaning dearest. The nominated blogger is to nominate five other excellent bloggers. So here are five more of my favorite blogs that I nominate for for the Liebster Blog Award.
- George Angus, Tumblemoose Writer
- Helen Ginger, Straight from Hel
- Jeanne Dininni, Writer’s Notes
- Karen Swim, Words for Hire
- Lori Weidner, Words on the Pag
Though I hope each of the bloggers I nominated with pass the award on to others, primarily I wanted to say “Thank you” to some of my favorite sources of information and entertainment and inspiration.
Lillie, I think you got it absolutely right that when it comes to blogging, we all want a little variation rather than the usual and the mundane. In this regard I think by sharing this you have opened my world to many more people like you who share their thoughts and experience about life and the things that matter. thanks for this post was very helpful.
John,
I hope you find some new blogs to read and love.
Lillie hi, nice list of bloggers which you have nominated, I have checked a few of them, they really deserve the nominations. Thanks and good luck
Ejaz,
Glad you’re enjoying some of my favorite blogs.
Hi Lillie, congratulations on being nominated! And yeah, the list of blogs which you have nominated are all amazing, too!
Thank you, Emilia.
Lillie,
Oh my goodness! I had no idea about this award until now that I was tracking my visitors. Thank you so much for this honor. I feel so thrilled.
Blessings.
Doris
Doris,
I apologize for not notifying you. I was supposed to notify everyone, but I have not had a chance to do so. I’m really glad you found my post!
I love your blog. Your compassion and love for your patients really comes through. My sister, Nancy Nicholson, is a social worker consultant to nursing homes after a number of years as a social worker in a facility. She and I were among several caregivers for our father with Alzheimer’s back before most people had even heard of the disease, and I am now a caregiver again. Your blog posts remind me of Nancy, who wrote Help! What Do I Do Now? Caring for Your Loved One with Alzheimer’s.
Wow, thank you for the Liebster award. Not only did I get the award, I learned a new word!
Helen,
That makes two of us who learned a new word.
Thanks for the recommendation – I will check out her website. I will also check out the blogs you’ve recommended. I appreciate your regular posts, and hope you win the awards this blog deserves.
Thank you, Simon. Nomination is a bit of a misnomer because nomination bestows the award. That’s the terminology used by the originator of the award, so I continued it.
Hello! You have a beautiful website! Keep up with the good work and congrats to the nominees!
Love,
Anna
Thank you, Anna.
I am really interested to read Dominique’s blog and I am sure they are a great read. Thank you Lillie for sharing this and hopefully will find more interesting blog to read this weekend. Nice list and worth checking reading material.
Jane,
Yes, you can find some great new reading from these blogs!
Lillie,
You bless me so much with your words. I never dreamed, when I embarked on this blogging journey, that I would gain such great friends. You are truely a treasure!
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Sally,
I feel the same way about you. And, like you, the thing that surprised me most about blogging was the connections/relationships/friends. I thought I was going to sit here dispensing wisdom but never expected anyone to respond.
I like Dominique’s aim in writing blogs, not only to be famous in World Wide Web but to inspire and motivate people. I adore person with that characteristic and adore them. She deserved to be nominated. After reading this, I’’ be persuade to write blogs in the future to inspire people.
Richard,
Dominique is an inspiring person and her blog is motivating and encouraging. If you start such a blog, let me know so I can read it.