My friend Aanchal at http://travelfunfoodpictures.com/ has nominated my blog for this award. I am always grateful for bloggers liking talealongtheway, and I like to encourage other bloggers by nominating them. WordPress is a family for all of us.
Now a little about Aanchal, who is an IT professional and integration architect in London. She works hard to be able to travel on weekend excursions which can be as rewarding as longer holidays. I am very pleased since my blog is mainly about my travels. Aanchal is one of the many bloggers who overcomes adversity in life. She daily must conqueror OCD and claustrophobia, just to leave her home and enter the world. Most of us just take our lives for granted, but Aanchal takes each day as a gift. My admiration to you , my friend. Thank you for the nomination.
The Rules:
1. Thank the blogger who nominates you publicly in the post and by linking back to his/her blog.
2. Display the image of the award on your blog.
3 Share 7 interesting facts about yourself.
4. Nominate 15 bloggers for the award and notify them on their “about” page or another page of their blog.
7 facts about me: (Since I have done this several times, I am altering this a bit and writing a paragraph.)
8 and 9 year olds love to look at maps. It is the first time they realize that there is a big diverse world out there beyond their home, school, and city. For various reasons, I had a half and hour each day of enrichment for third graders. I thought it a wonderful opportunity to share my discovery of the ancient world. Using the internet for research, the kids learned to write their name in the ancient languages, learn history, read ODYSSEUS in an abridged edition, construct ziggerats, pyramids, and the Parthenon. As an end of the year culminating activity , each dressed as an ancient person or object ( Corinthian Column) for a Living Museum. In turn they would entertain me with tales of growing up in Arizona with rattlesnakes, bob cats perched on a cactus, scorpions, and tarantellas. But the stories didn’t begin until the testing was finished for the year, of course!
Here are my nominees for the Versatile Blogger Award. Check them out!
1. http://hunt4truth.wordpress.com
3. http://parisiennesepromene.wordpress.com
4. http://abozdar.wordpress.com
5. http://powerplantmen.wordpress.com
6. http://processingthelife.com
7. http://yasniger.wordpress.com
8. http://zitronblog.wordpress.com
9. http://miscellaneousmusingsofamiddleagedmind.wordpress.com
10. http://ceenphotography.com
11. http://excuseusforliving.com
12. http://amaruvi.wordpress.com
13. http://mixate.wordpress.com
14. http://sachemspeaks.wordpress.com
15. http://viewfound.wordpress.com
Congratulations to you all!
TalesAlongTheWay 
Thank you so much Anne for your kind words. You are a very much well deserving candidate 🙂
Only a small thing, I would say (I am smiling at the moment) I am a ‘she’ 🙂 I know Indian names can be confusing. You must be dealing with a lot of names at the moment.
Thank you so much for your love.
Much Love
Aanchal
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L O L !! I think I have updated all the “he’s ” to “she’s”!
Thank you for taking my mistake with such good humor. Indian names are confusing but that is no real excuse for the mistake. Many thanks for your love and gentle Indian understanding!
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LOL 🙂 No worries at all Anne. It can happen to anyone.. You are a lovely person.
Much Love
Aanchal
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Congratulations. (I’ll take a look at your recommendations.)
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Thanks and I hope you will find some you might enjoy, too !
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Congrats!
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Thanks so much!
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Congrats on the award. It was fun learning a little more about you. Thanks for adding me to your list. 🙂
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You are most welcome!
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Anne, Such an honor & humbling experience to be nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award by you!!!!!!!!!!!! To be thought of in that way by you & considered among the fine others has very special meaning to me. As you may know, some of us respectfully & gratefully decline such awards due to the time/activity they require. My thanks & appreciation! Phil
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What a lovely kind comment. And I understand that the process is time consuming! Cheers!
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Congratulations!
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Thank you !
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Thanks a million….
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You are most welcome!
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Congratulations to you. Hugs, barbara
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Thanks very much!
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Congratulations!
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Thanks!
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😀
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Anne, congratulations on receiving recognition. I look forward to reading stories that you are putting up on wordpress… I myself appreciate travelers (not travelling) and I enjoy several of the photo and stories blogs – and of course, as you may realize from my own blog, I like diversity and various expressions of how fellow bloggers view life in these times.
Thank you so much for recognizing my blog.
Hugs; blessings;
~ Eric.
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Congratulations! And thank you so much for nominating my blog.
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You are most welcome !
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