THINKING BLOGGER AWARD

Lila from "Indigo Pears" has selected me for the Thinking Blogger Award. I am terribly honored, being so new to the blogging world. I didn't even know what a meme was before now. (To learn more, google Thinking Blogger Award.)
I almost fell over when Lila chose me, because I think of myself as being more in tune with my emotional side rather than my intellectual side. I AM an intelligent person, having graduated from college Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude. But when I'm around true intellectuals, I feel quite inferior. I'm much more comfortable with the written word. When I'm speaking, the words don't come out the way I want them to.
That's why this selection is such an honor. In turn, I am to name five other bloggers who make me think. It took me several days to complete my list, not because I couldn't think of anyone, but because it was so hard to narrow them down to five. But here they are:

1. Misty Mawn (http://www.mistymawn.typepad.com/)
2. Nina Bagley (http://www.ornamental.typepad.com/)
3. Alexandra S. (http://www.marvelousmadness.blogspot.com/)
4. Kathryn (Katie) Kendrick (http://www.joyouslybecoming.typepad.com/)
5. Liz Elayne (http://www.bepresentbehere.blogspot.com/)

Lila's blog (a previous Thinking Blogger Award winner), is a must read for me everyday. And there are two more blogs that I had been reading religiously and would have put on my list but Lila had already chosen them. They are:

1. Mrs. Pom (real name?) at Pomegranates and Paper (www.artjournaler.typepad.com)
2. Daisy Lupin (www.catsinthekitchenflorainthegarden.blogspot.com)