THANKS TO Elaine Kehoe at TEA LEAVES for this award

Now to the hard part of receiving an award, coming up with seven things about myself for the world to read.  Here goes: 

1.  I am a pirate at heart and mind and enjoy doing all sorts of things.  I am also an old pirate. 

2.  Believe it or not I've been married for 37 years and spawned a beautiful, accomplished daughter, who has given us 3 great grandchildren, and my always interesting son, himself a pirate. (see RI PIRATE PLAYERS). 

3.  I've had many strange and interesting jobs over the years, not the least being my 16 years as an attorney.  I've also had some real boring ones, but always seemed to be surrounded by interesting people. 

4.  I do a lot of sort of things like:  sort of play the piano, sort of knit (see PIRATE KNITTING), sort of write and sort of get paid.  

5.  I've been sort of blogging for a few years and have met some great people and read some really nice things throughout blog challenges, GBE2, Blog Park etc.  

6.  You meet many people in 62 years, some of who are friends for a time, some drift away and some stay as friends forever.  I am lucky to have at least 3 of those friends forever (BFF), one of whom is my husband. 

7.  I have been lucky in many things and am gambling that luck continues. 

Now the good part, my nominees for this award:

Frizzy (what is your name?):  http://ibfrizzy.blogspot.com/

Mary Anne: http://www.writewrongorindifferent.com/

Beth (of course and always):  http://www.word-nerd-speaks.com/

Joyce Paull Lansky:  http://joycelansky.blogspot.com/

Jo Heroux:  http://jo-mywanderingmind.blogspot.com/

November Rain: http://bloggitwrite.blogspot.com/

Claudia Moser:  http://cnovac.blogspot.com/

Laurie Peel: http://earthdragonhealing.blogspot.com/

Langley Cornwall: http://langley-writes.blogspot.com/

Jenn Duffy-Pearson:  http://www.wine-n-chat.com/

Gill Taber:  http://mojowritin.blogspot.com/