Thank you to all who joined us this month for the Write-Away Contest and my biggest thanks to Chelle at Crazy Thoughts for reading and judging the 46 submissions all about Learning. There were a lot of submissions this month and a woman who's willing to take on all that reading deserves a big ol' peach pie or something. With ice cream.. . . And the winner is:
Julie Q. at Mental Tesserae with Blank Canvas
Mental Tesserae has been a favorite blog of mine for a year so I couldn't agree more with Chelle's decision. A mother of four who reads, writes, professes (isn't that what a professor does?) and blogs, Julie pieces together her background in humanities with posts of her life in ways that make you feel you're not alone. If you're looking for excellent writing, Mental Tesserae is the blog for you--all those plagiarizers can't be wrong.
Honorable Mentions:
Theresa Bakker at My Fairbanks Life with Learning to WalkAllison at Soccer Mom in Denial with Does the End Justify
Damselfly at Growing a Life with But Mama Gets All the Sugar
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Here are a list of the entries in the order they were received:
Corrie at Tyler's Triumph with Be the Tree, Grasshopper
Tammy at Tammy's Times with Ask for Directions
Joan H. at Oasis of Sanity with The Person I Want to Be
Babystepper at Babysteps with Adult Education
Kathleen at So Grateful to Be Mormon with Priceless: "The Bitter" vs. "The Sweet"
MommaK at The Great Walls of Baltimore with Mom College
Zen Mother with Unschooling
Michelle at In the Life of a Child with Heaven in Her Smile
Amy at The Real Bee Log at The View from The Other Side
MadamSpud169 at The GOOD, The BAD & The Mischief with Learning Via Motherhood and the Internet
Deb at Mom of 3 Girls with Things I Learned about My Kids this Morning
Summer's Nook with Sometimes Learning Hurts
Daisy at Compost Happens with Any Questions?
Mommy Brain with Lifestyle of Learning
It's a Wonderful Life with Learning
The View from My Fishbowl with What Learning is to Me
Allison at Soccer Mom in Denial with Does the End Justify
Lucy at An Ordinary Mom with "I Don't Have Time for This!"
Robin at Around the Island with A Lesson Too Late for the Learning?
Ten Party Girl with Tea Parties and Caring about the Bigger Picture
Jo at A Broad's Thoughts from Home with The Hardest Thing to Learn
123pizza's Weblog with Learning
It's All about the Mumple with Get over It
Tamara at Changing More than Diapers with It's Funny
Laura at Laura Williams' Musings with Learning Ends at the Moment of Death
J Chevais at No Taste Like It with What's Going On
Susie J with I'm Learning Not to Miss Him So Much
Homeschool Housewife with Learning about Planning for the Future
Dorit Sasson from Pieces of Me with My Left Foot
Shawn at Letters to My Daughter with A Profound Moment in Motherhood
Are We There Yet? with The Secret of Life
Donetta at Life Uncommon with On Learning
Amy at Doobleh-Vay with The Way I Felt Two Months Ago
Phyllis at Sommer Livin' with Chazak Chazak May We Be Strong
Julie Q. at Mental Tesserae with Blank Canvas
Alto Artist at On Chanting with A Leaf from a Tree
Dawn at Life with Learning
Theresa Bakker at My Fairbanks Life with Learning to Walk
Lei at My Many Colored Days with Getting to Know Me
Patois at Whee! All the Way Home with Learning
My Ice Cream Diary with Scribbit Write-Away Entry (Late as Usual)
Matthew at Common Misadventures with Learning on My Own Terms
Sabina M at "Life Isn't about Finding Yourself. Life Is about Creating Yourself" George Bernard Shaw with Things I Want to Learn
Bunny Trails with A Big Log [part one] and Big Log cont. [part two]
Damselfly at Growing a Life with But Mama Gets All the Sugar
Eve at Good Enough with Adventures for the Domestically Challenged
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For those who could use a chuckle (found this at Lauri's), try this:Technorati tags: Write-Away Contest, collecting, blogging, writing
16 comments:
Well Good Morning! An honorable mention - really? Thank you so much. I have longed for a Scribbit Write-Away (even mention). Thanks to Ms. Chelle, the judge, and to you Ms. M for organizing the contest.
Now I've got some good reading this weekend!!
Very nice winners. I'm enjoying the reading very much.
Loved the winner...looking forward to visiting more!
Wow, I'm so excited. I think I'm even more honored by the "favorite blog" mention than I am by the award itself. But that bag is awesome and I already have big plans for it.
Thanks for hosting this.
Julie did a beautiful job... I need to visit her more often, I can already tell!
Oh, darn it, these last couple weeks have just gotten away from me. Sigh. I really wanted to write something, too. So sorry!
Congrats to the deserving winners!
To the honorable Ms. Chelle, I appreciate the mention. Thanks to you, Michelle, for being such a gracious and organized hostess. And to all my the bloggers and writers and mothers here, I'm learning from you everyday.
It was SO hard to pick just one ... All the entries were amazing! Thanks for having me as a judge :)
Yay, I've just been waiting for Julie to win this! Some day I will be brave enough to enter. I'm just waiting for the perfect topic. Something like "How insane have your kids driven you today". I think there would be some stiff competition for that one but at least I would be in the running.
Great contest Michelle!
Congratulations to Julie!
Oh my goodness! That is quite the list but the winner was well-deserved!
Congrats to the winners!
And, that video is priceless! Thanks for sharing.
congrats to the winners :)
Excellent choice! Julie's post was so thoughtful and beautiful. :D
Can't wait to get started on this list, and to find more blogs that I just have to read every day. Sometimes I don't know where my morning goes!
Congratulations to the winners.....It's a very cool video by julie.....I hope to see more incredible stuff from you...by the way now I really got interested in your other entries also....
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