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April Platform Challenge, Bends In The Road, Blogging, Blogroll, Bonnie Vesely, Carol Early Cooney, Diabetes, JustVentures, Kelly Ann Williamson, Lumped Together, MNINB, Monica Alvarado Frazier, Monique Liddle, MS, Poetry, Poets, Rebecca Barray, Robert Lee Brewer, Sarah Turnbull, Sarah W. Bartlett, Sarahscapes, Strong Women Grow Here, The 9 Inch Plate, This Is Mine...Seriously, TN, Women Writing For (a) Change, writing, Writing Inside VT
Special Addition: MNINB Blogroll
This April was incredibly challenging with folks involved with the April Platform Challenge, the PAD Challenge, ScriptFrenzy, A to Z Blogging Challenge, and an assortment of other contrivances to get our writerly juices flowing more freely and more productively. Our next group of Not Bobbers have had their fair share of life’s challenges. Surviving life’s setbacks by exhibiting plenty of personal pluck. But they didn’t stop there. They have trekked through the thicket brandishing a machete to make a wider, smoother path for those thrown into the same bunch of thorns. They have dedicated their blogs and their lives to helping others not only survive but thrive.
What will follow over the next week or so is an annotated blogroll. My space is limited, but I strive to give you a taste of what you are missing by not subscribing to these talented writers, poets, and artists. I hope you love getting to know my fellow Not Bobbers as much as I have. Please share your thoughts here and on their blogs as well. We love feedback. Everyone of us.
Monique Liddle Initially, Monique amazed me with her seemingly abundant energy and commitment to community. She and Becca are truly the hearts of the MNINBers. Through her blog Bends In The Road, I learned that she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Tregeminal Neuralgia (TN) and more recently, Diabetes (DB). Always in search for the silver-linings while still acknowledging the pain, Monique focuses her blog on life’s unexpected turns. Her story is a true inspiration, but she entreats you to share your own unexpected twists and turns.
Carol Early Cooney Seems as if the Cooney household is on a Diabetes-friendly regime. Don’t despair, Carol, the matriarch of this family has plenty of down to earth fun and humor in her approach to getting her family healthy. The 9 Inch Plate chronicles their adventures as they discover that no “free radicals” are not a referent to a 1960s cultural meme but a healthy component to most unprocessed foods. Happy Kissversary! And Congratulations on completing the 5K! Share their milestones as they get healthy… together. What? Silence, Sam?
Kelly Ann Williamson What happens when a family member’s illness has taken center stage sending ripple effects through out the once solid home-base? If you’re a writer, you …write about it. If you are a blogger, you blog about it. In This Is Mine…Seriously tackles a very personal subject matter. Instead of focusing on the disease, her blog celebrates the resiliency of family members and her own personal independence. As she plants her flag in her corner of the cyber-world, she declares this to be “My Space. My Ideas. My Limitless Possibilities…”
Monica Alvarado Frazier recently retired as a peace officer for the State of California. For the next installment in her life, she is picking up the journals she wrote during her 3-decade career and applying the lessons of her writing classes to the materials. Her blog Strong Women Grow Here connects her then and now lives. Writing, her strong faith and her strong sense of community are helping her create a new life as she still helps others make better choices in their own lives.
Sarah W. Bartlett I love my life. Really I do. But I admit to a twinge of envy when I read any three of Sarah’s blogs. Sarahscapes is pure inspiration! Poems, quotes, pictures and stories of Sarah’s many adventures recharging in the natural world. Nature heals. Writing is also a powerful healer. Sarah has spent over 2 decades working with Women Writing For (a) Change. An off-shoot of this project focuses on working with incarcerated women Writing Inside VT. To find a litany of Sarah’s many hats click here.
Bonnie Vesely Bonnie shares much in common with Sarah. She is also a coach, an advocate, and a career counselor. JustVentures records Bonnie’s passion for social justice. She has helped people out of the trap of poverty to realize their full potential as positive change-agents in their communities. As a runner and general outdoor enthusiast, she is also interested in natural stewardship and in supporting efforts to create a more sustainable lifestyle.
Bonus Section:
Sarah Turnbull Is not a currently active blogger, but she is a vibrant member of the MNINB clan. Her blog, Lumped Together, chronicled her bout with breast health issues. It is a terrific reference for those in the same situation. Sarah continues to be an inspiration for me in her deft tweets and her blog-like posts to her Google+ profile. Please, for your own sake. Follow her on Twitter @thesaturnbull and check out the Google+ profile.
Miss a post in this series? Need to revisit a post? All are easy to access in the archives. Just hit the category tag for MNINB Blogroll to see what you are missing.
Lori, you do a great job by these amazing posts introducing us into more detail to some of our fellow-platformers at MNINB!
Thank you for your encouragement, Mariya!
It’s a true treasure hunt through the list for me. I’m glad you think so as well.
My word, Lori, what a collection of inspiring women. Thank you for taking all the time that these posts require. I really enjoy reading them.
Pleasure is too great for me not to share. We are an amazing group!
So inspiring. And humbling.
Truly amazing company that we’ve been keeping!
Lara-
Impressive how you fabric everyone together…through this we are getting to know one another even better!
Thanks!
And I’m afraid my posts are the tip of the ice berg. But they are a start…
You are a quilter of wondrous quality, Lara. Many thanks for the inspirational example of your weaving us together so luminously. And personally, for mirroring the seed of what I hope will grow over time within my own blog. To think you saw it there already!
It is further along than you think, Sarah. I’m very delighted that I found it. I think you will be inspiring others to follow in your footsteps to do similar work in their own backyards. Don’t be surprised if you get some visitors that say “Lara sent me.”
I would love that and will look for them, thank you.
I have a lot of ideas for shaping this blog; am thinking this is might become my writing work. Publishing is so over-rated. I like the control of deciding what to put out there when, according to my own guidelines!
Yes, I’m going down that same path. Self-publishing while the industry redefines itself. But don’t forget about the eBook readers. Your content is too good to be only platformed on the blog. I would encourage you to think about an eBook as well.
hmmmmm . . . leads, resources, ideas? Never thought about it. I just had one poem e-published, all else has been traditional.
I’m schooling myself with Joanna Penn’s Creative Penn site. Almost all of the “gurus” admit that their content for sale is nearly the same as what can be gleaned for free with some time and effort. So I’m surfing around to educate myself before I pay for a program. She has podcasts on iTunes, too.
Thank you so very much Lara.. It was a pleasant surprise to find out about the blog roll just now. I hadn’t mentioned it only my blog, but most of the reason I retired early was to concentrate on recovering from breast cancer. Today I had my 6 month checkup and my stat’s are good- six years out now!
You certainly are a wonderful example of a thriver, Monica! And also an example of the concept of teaching to learn. Thank you for “passing-it-forward” in your life’s work.
Yes! All great ladies who have put a lot of effort into putting the #MNINB challenge to practice.
I agree whole-heartedly Michelle!
Wow, Lara. Thank you. It is really sweet, kind, and well-thought-out. I can’t wait to read more. Thank you so much for the mention. ::hugs:: ::high fives::
I have your blog bookmarked to sent to all those women who get the second call to have extra imaging. Thanks for that gift.
Lara –
This is an an amazing group you have formed here, and I feel truly blessed to be among this courageous group of women. All 6 of the other bloggers, in a sense, believe similarly like you Lara: in creating a space with their readers so their readers will have somewhere to share their stories to help one another. A place where solidarity becomes a way of life. That is what I am hoping to do with my website and blog as well: create a space in which readers will share because they believe if they share their own stories, it will help others to not feel so lost and alone – whatever the reason. I think that we all implicitly believe in the quote that is on Sarah (aka. Saturn Bull’s) web page: “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.” ~Madeleine K. Albright. I would extend that to include “..not help other women, and men also.”
Monique
Precisely so, Monique. Thank you for the work that you do as well as the care-taking you do for us as a group.
“Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage, friend.” – Carolyn Heilbrun, The Last Gift of Time: Life beyond Sixty
And we are very rich in friendship, indeed.
Awesome, Lara! It’s a great reminder that we’re not the only ones struggling and that every single one of us has a story!
Amazing what people face everyday and still embrace life with curiosity, compassion, and humor.
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