My recommender!
https://mandibelle16.wordpress.com/
https://mandibelle16.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/award-epically-awesome-award/#comment-10341
Rules:
Display the Award in your post, mention your nominator [above], link back to them [link-post above], answer five questions, and nominate five to ten others.
Questions [my replies beneath my nominations]:
- What made you choose WP as your blogging platform?
- Introduce yourself and tell us about your blog.
- Are you a once in a while blogger or a daily one?
- Do you wish to publish and if so, what type of book?
- What is your favorite thing to do besides write?
Nominees
[feel free to respond to the nominations with writing; feel free not to; feel free simply to bask]:
Stray Coffee Breaks (who manages a cuppa with two puppies afoot), https://straycoffee.wordpress.com/
A Reading Writer (who’s been writing about coffee and love, too), https://areadingwritr.wordpress.com/
Invisible World (read Hashna!), https://invisibleworldd.wordpress.com/
Moonskittles (start by simply enjoying the name), https://moonskittles.wordpress.com/
Only 100 Words (for narratives and challenges), https://only100words.xyz/author/sonyca/
Sabethville (for limericks and important translations), https://sabethville.wordpress.com/
AngieInspired (like Archimedes, moving the world), https://angieinspired.wordpress.com/
Question Replies:
- I don’t remember.
- Christopher Leo Couch. Christopher for Christopher Robin. Leo for my father’s name. Couch because a thousand years members of my clan made cushions for uncomfortable medieval furniture (otherwise) made of wood and stone. My blog is about poetry. I got to know the blogosphere through the Blogging University’s poetry class. I’ve been writing for years and taught writing, too.
- I blog daily now. For maybe half a year by now. I started the blog while recovering from surgery. I found writing was one of the few things I could so with relative ease. I journaled daily (instead of haphazardly) and then moved to the blog. I continue both daily.
- I would like to publish a small book of poetry, hardbound. When going to a bookstore, I go to the poetry section (often having to hunt for it), and it’s a treat when I find a small hardbound (I guess a better work is clothbound) book of poetry. For instance, Mary Oliver’s poems tend to appear this way. So my writing dream is this.
- Spend time in the world. Be in touch—visit, when possible—with family, friends, and neighbors. Go to stores and enjoy the strangers I encounter there. Take drives to nowhere in particular. Track the world’s events through various media. Then spend time away from the world. Have relative quiet. Read. Write, often nothing in particular. Think probably like Pooh-bear. Enjoy honey definitely as does Pooh-bear.
I responded to the questions given, though I imagine others could re-work the questions to suit themselves or to put forth to others. There’s seems to be good precedence for this in the blogging world.
Thanks, Mandi!
Thanks, blogging community!
clcouch123 
June 2, 2016 at 5:21 pm
Glad you accepted Christopher. Great answers. I love to learn about people on our blogging community and I enjoyed your family history. Very interesting!
June 3, 2016 at 3:35 am
I appreciate the invitation of the nomination, Mandi. I’m not my favorite subject, so this is probably good discipline for me.
June 2, 2016 at 10:10 pm
Ohh, me too, me too!! I want to have a little book with a string on top, and hand painted cover by me one day 🙂
June 3, 2016 at 3:39 am
I doubt I have the kind of physical finesse to make a beautiful book that’s painted and tied. I enjoy the work of those who can craft this. Your response, in addition to affirming a kindred spirit, reminds me of William Blake. Blake could not get publishers to print his books, so he made his own. He hand-wrote the text and drew and painted each illustration.
Late in his life, publishers finally produced his work. And we’ve been appreciating it ever since. Hope for all, yes? Yes!
June 3, 2016 at 5:18 am
🙂 Yay for kindred spirits!!
I did not know that about Blake. Wow, amazing!! I am happy to learn something new. Thank you my friend! 🙂
June 3, 2016 at 3:50 am
congratulations to a well-deserved award! and i am more than honoured to belong on the roster of those lovely bloggers! 😀
It is great knowing more about you, Christopher Leo Couch. 🙂 We share the same dream, of publishing a small hardbound poetry book. Though mine’s still a long shot as it costs a lot.
June 3, 2016 at 4:03 am
Your attention and regard are such a treat for me. I’m happy to be in a blogging world with you in it, too.
Hmm. I don’t think I know your whole name. Though in a blog I respect everyone’s choices regarding what to share. If your name’s a secret, then you can e-mail me (clcouch17055@gmail.com). But then it won’t be a secret (if it is). I’m glad you dream of publishing your work, because you should. I accidentally got an estimate for self-publication. You’re right, it’s expensive. That’s why the mainstream publishers should simply snap us up!
June 3, 2016 at 4:32 am
You are just so sweet. And my name is Rosemarie Gonzales. 😀 I think my ancient roots can be traced back to a Spanish family. (That’s according to my granny). 😀
Ha! I am hoping but I don’t have high hopes. 😀
June 3, 2016 at 4:36 am
And… because I am on your list, here are my answers:
What made you choose WP as your blogging platform?
Because a friend actually suggested it to me.
Introduce yourself and tell us about your blog.
I am Rosemawriters of A Reading Writer. Yes, I am a reading writer or a writing reader. 😀
My blog’s about books I’ve read and love and my own fiction and poems.
Are you a once in a while blogger or a daily one?
I try to be a daily one, and for 2016, I actually achieved that goal. And I am keeping my fingers crossed. 🙂
Do you wish to publish and if so, what type of book?
A poetry book. 🙂 Though, that’s a long shot.
What is your favorite thing to do besides write?
I read blogs I love, like this one, and novels! If not, I’m singing while listening to Sara Bareilles and Jason Mraz and Hillsong United and more. ❤
June 3, 2016 at 4:40 am
Rosemarie Gonzales. A sonorous name. Ojala que la cuenta de su abuela este correcto. And that’s about as much of my broken Spanish as I can make. (And without a Spanish keyboard.)
June 3, 2016 at 4:47 am
Your responses are so likable! Thank you for these!
I’m glad WP was recommended to you. I simply found it, somehow. You write a great deal–and with impressive variety! Not to mention how much of your creative work tends to have an incisive turn before it’s done.
Yes, we’ll be working on those poetry books. Or envisioning them, at least.
I’ve enjoyed your travel writing, too. I’ve learned a great deal from where you go and how you travel–and how you perceive what you encounter.
And I continue to learn poetry forms from you. Though your talent and insight outweigh all. Thanks for sharing these (well, for all you share), Rosemarie Gonzales!