{"id":9538,"date":"2015-02-15T02:27:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T08:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/randr\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2019-06-14T09:04:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:04:55","slug":"liebster-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/liebster-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Liebster Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Award by Juneta Key, writer of Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Sci-Fi Cyber-Steampunk & Mystery, Romance, and Life Inspired Stories.\"Liebster<\/p>\n

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Thank you, Juneta, for thinking enough of my blog to recommend it. Here are the rules:\"Rules\"<\/p>\n

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Here are my eleven questions to answer:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1. Who is your favorite author?<\/strong> James Michener<\/p>\n

2. If you had 3 wishes what would they be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Health for me and my loved ones<\/li>\n
  2. Everyone would at least have enough<\/li>\n
  3. The ability to communicate effectively<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    3. If you were given a free round trip ticket to anywhere, where would you go?<\/strong> I’d set up a writing retreat via Amtrak sleeping car on the longest route I could configure in the United States.<\/p>\n

    4. \u00a0Would you rather live near the ocean, forest, mountains or the fourth option;)?<\/strong> I love the ocean, forest, and mountains, but I’d choose to live right where I am — smack dab in the middle of rolling Texas.<\/p>\n

    5. What is your favorite genre of music? <\/strong>Classic rock.<\/p>\n

    6. Plane, Train, Boat, Car or other for vacation travel?<\/strong> Train<\/p>\n

    7. Where is your favorite place to escape from the daily grind to?<\/strong> I’m retired. I’ve escaped the daily grind, so the answer is home.<\/p>\n

    8. What is your best memory? \u00a0(You probably have several, but pick one)<\/strong> My earliest memory is of riding in the wagon across a gravel parking lot behind my mom, who did not drive. I was not more than two. Mom says I’d say, “Bumpy ride, Mommy.\u00a0 Bumpy ride.”<\/p>\n

    9. Do you have a hobbit? if not, what would you like to do for a hobby? ROFL @ SELF \u00a0okay this error was too good to correct\u2014go ahead tell me who is your favorite hobbit?<\/strong> I have no idea what a hobbit is. (Well, all right. It’s a small, troll-like fictional being, but I am completely unfamiliar with the details, because I’ve steadfastly avoided reading the book for 40-plus years.)<\/p>\n

    10. \u00a0What is the most memorable book you have read, or movie if not a big reader?<\/strong> The Throwaway Children<\/em> I checked it out of the library when I was around 13, and it was ghastly. I found it as a used book on Amazon several years ago and bought it, but I haven’t had the guts to read it again. It was a non-fiction book about the things adults have done to abuse children, and it was something I probably shouldn’t have been reading at that age.<\/p>\n

    11. Would you travel around the world in 80 days if you could?<\/strong> Nope.<\/p>\n

    11 Random Facts About Me:<\/h3>\n
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    1. \u00a0I’m still amazed I was able to retire from working for someone else before I turned 48.\u00a0 I never saw that coming (not when I was 20, anyway!).<\/li>\n
    2. I’m going to attempt to have two total knee replacement surgeries before September, 2015.<\/li>\n
    3. My husband is an incredibly talented musician, an exacting craftsman, and, since he’ll be 78 this year, I’m embarrassed I can’t keep up with him. (See #2 above.)<\/li>\n
    4. Until Millie died in 2012, I had always had a dog.<\/li>\n
    5. My husband and I love long Amtrak trips.<\/li>\n
    6. I’m not a fan of holidays (except for paid time off work) or ceremonies.<\/li>\n
    7. I once wanted to be a zoo veterinarian.<\/li>\n
    8. I toyed with becoming a marine biologist.<\/li>\n
    9. Now I’m an amateur feline behaviorist.<\/li>\n
    10. I’ve always wanted to be a writer but didn’t think I was “experienced” enough. When I became “experienced” enough, I realized I had needed to be practicing writing all that time.\u00a0 Catching up.<\/li>\n
    11. I’m a Native Iowan and a Naturalized Texan.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      My Nominees (Note sure of the number of followers, but each has something to say, and I’d love to see more people find them):<\/h3>\n
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      1. Wendy at Shining the Light <\/a>(She hasn’t been posting much, and I miss her thoughts, but I know she’s been busily writing good fiction.)<\/li>\n
      2. Paige at Tales From the Laundry Room<\/a><\/li>\n
      3. Patty at My Edible Landscaping Journal<\/li>\n
      4. Valerie at Valerie Comer<\/a><\/li>\n
      5. Stephen at 51313 Harbor Street<\/a><\/li>\n
      6. Erin at Erin Hartshorn<\/a><\/li>\n
      7. Bonnie at Cowgirl in New England<\/a><\/li>\n
      8. Margaret at Tales to Tide You Over<\/a><\/li>\n
      9. Zette at Joyously Prolific<\/a><\/li>\n
      10. Elizabeth at Dreaming in the Daylight<\/a><\/li>\n
      11. Thea at Expected Aberrations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        My Questions for My Nominees:<\/h3>\n

        Use the questions above, but, unless you actually have a hobbit (if so, tell us all about it!), for question nine, please tell us about your favorite hobby.<\/p>\n

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        I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Award by Juneta Key, writer of Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Sci-Fi Cyber-Steampunk & Mystery, Romance, and Life Inspired Stories.   Thank you, Juneta, for thinking enough of my blog to recommend it. Here are the rules:   Here are my eleven questions to answer: 1. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web-stuff","tag-liebster-award"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Liebster-award-2.png","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14718,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions\/14718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}