In the United States, Thursday of this week is our national Thanksgiving Holiday. A great time to pause and think about all that we are grateful for this year.
1: Where did you most enjoy being this year?
2: What was the highlight of your work this year?
3: What family members brought joy to your life this year?
4: What was the best thing you read this year?
5: How many blogs did you enjoy reading this year?
My Answers:
1: Where did you most enjoy being this year? The middle of the Atlantic.
2: What was the highlight of your work this year? Retiring on January 5th.
3: What family members brought joy to your life this year? Sweet Bear, my sister, my nephew Michael and his new son Owen.
4: What was the best thing you read this year? About Time, David Rooney
5: How many blogs did you enjoy reading this year? There are 19 on my daily read list, I look forward to posts on all of them.
Please share your answers in the comments.
1: Where did you most enjoy being this year? In the villa we rented in The Algarve, Portugal
ReplyDelete2: What was the highlight of your work this year? I wrote some poems and I mowed the lawn.
3: What family members brought joy to your life this year? All of them but especially the three grandchildren.
4: What was the best thing you read this year? "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" for the eleventy hundreth time.
5: How many blogs did you enjoy reading this year? One has to keep one's blog reading under control - not taking on too many blogs or blog reading would entirely take over one's life. I have around ten "go to" blogs including yours, Mary Moon's exquisite "Bless Our Hearts" and of course Bob's brilliant "I Should Be Laughing".
I am thankful to be on your short list of daily reads.
Delete1. Probably NYC. I love the city and the energy. It got me out of my head.
ReplyDelete2. None come to mind.
3. My husband, of course. One of sisters and one of my cousins.
4. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.
5. My blog reading has gone to the dogs. My blog list is horribly out of date too. So many no longer post. I def stay away from JMG. The news posts are just too fucking depressing.
Many of us are avoiding the "news"
Delete1: Where did you most enjoy being this year? I’ve always had a hard time pinpointing “most” or “best” or “favorite.” Sorry!
ReplyDelete2: What was the highlight of your work this year? Carrying the last moving box down to recycling!
3: What family members brought joy to your life this year? The husband and The Kid Brother.
4: What was the best thing you read this year? Ditto #1
5: How many blogs did you enjoy reading this year? Dozens
I had a hard time picking a favorite book.
Delete1: Where did you most enjoy being this year? Anywhere Carlos is with me; we had a great weekend getaway at Hilton Head; a few days after the estate was settled we spent a glorious day traveling down the Oregon coast; or just being at home.
ReplyDelete2: What was the highlight of your work this year? The return of the Colonial Cup Steeplechase event to Camden after several years of not having it.
3: What family members brought joy to your life this year? Carlos and my niece Ashley.
4: What was the best thing you read this year? Still trudging through Barbra Streisand's book and finding her her more fascinating than I ever knew.
5: How many blogs did you enjoy reading this year? How ever many are on my blog's sidebar. I stop by all of them nearly every day, or when they have a new post!
Cher is publishing a biography, volume I is due out now, volume II next year, that would take some time to wade through.
Delete1: Where did you most enjoy being this year? I think this year it was my trip to Chicago.
ReplyDelete2: What was the highlight of your work this year? Beginning another software development project.
3: What family members brought joy to your life this year? My sister. She's always there to talk things through with me.
4: What was the best thing you read this year? Reading all the news from my blogging friends.
5: How many blogs did you enjoy reading this year? I think there is about 14.
New projects and favorite cities.
Delete1: Where did you most enjoy being this year? Chicago for the birth of my 2nd grandson. New York City...I love its energy, the neighborhoods, always finding something new.
ReplyDelete2: What was the highlight of your work this year? Ahhh, the farmers market. Being outdoors, interaction with customers, the best bosses and coworkers, fresh veggies, going to the Amish market/auction.
3: What family members brought joy to your life this year? My children and grandchildren, my son proposing to his girlfriend (wedding in November 2025), my husband, my siblings.
4: What was the best thing you read this year? Everytime I visit my Cleveland grandson, we read "I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home." He has heard it so many times that he has memorized it so now we "read" it together.
5: How many blogs did you enjoy reading this year? I have five regular ones (yours is one) and then others that I visit periodically
New York and Chicago are great American cities. A wedding to look forward to, how exciting.
Delete1. On my hikes in the area forest preserves.
ReplyDelete2. I am a volunteer who makes floral arrangements to sell and raise money for educational programs at our local history museum - I love it when something I made sells!
3. My children and grandchildren and my sister.
4. The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers and James by Everett, Percival
5. I have 25 bookmarked that I check each day...
It is so nice to get out and walk.
Delete1. Home in the kitchen.
ReplyDelete2. Meeting you, David. (Though not in person)
3. Our daughter, Gayle. Always a treasure.
4. I think the book I've recently finished - "An Unfinished Love Story" by Doris Kearns Goodwin about her late husband's and her treks through the politics of the 60's. An excellently told tale.
5. I get caught up following other's commenters to their blogs and on and on. So no way to count 'em up.
Over the years I have talked with a few people who were involved in politics in the late 60's early 70's, interesting tales of wild times
Delete1: Where did you most enjoy being this year? in bed with my dog, reading a book.
ReplyDelete2: What was the highlight of your work this year? getting a whopping pay raise and bonus check
3: What family members brought joy to your life this year? Lots; I am fortunate this way.
4: What was the best thing you read this year? The Wind in Jamaica. What a marvelous read! Why is this book not read/known?
5: How many blogs did you enjoy reading this year? dozens - a few came back from retirement, which pleased me very much.
Interesting looking book.
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