A blog award and it’s lineage.

April 21, 2012 Mike Goad

97 ‘generations’
of
The Versatile Blogger
Award

Purplume’s Blog – May 30, 2010
Housewife Blues and Chihuahua Stories – June 23, 2010
Addicted To Romance – June 8, 2010
Book Mark Your Thoughts – June 8, 2010
Badass Bookie – June 11, 2010
Thoghts Enterred in Phrase – June 14, 2010
The Daily Harrell – June 15, 2010
Renae Mercado – June 16, 2010
Amparo Ortiz – June 17, 2010
YA Literature Lover – June 19, 2010
T.K. Richardson – June 23, 2010
Words from the Woods – June 29, 2010
Patricia Stotley – July 2, 2010
“Dishin’ It Out” – July 7, 2010
Kate Masters – July 12, 2010
Margaret West – July 12, 2010
Walker’s Muse (now “Mass Musings”) – July 12, 2010
Ashley’s Bookshelf – July 17, 2010
Books That Bite – July 22, 2010
Missy’s Reads and Reviews – June 27, 2010
About Books Blog – July 27, 2010 (Passed it on to others in their comments before this post was published)
WV Stitcher – July 3, 2010
Copper Penny Designs – August 3, 2011
StudioJuls – August 5, 2010
EB Bead and Metal Works – August 6, 2010
Copper Diem – August 7, 2010
TyneBoden Necklaces – August 7, 2010
Life of a Twingle Gal – August 8, 2010
The Knit Wit – August 8, 2010
And then there were 4 – August 12, 2010 (Passed it on to others in their comments before this post was published)
Crazy About My BayBah – August 20, 2010
Two Monkeys and a Washtub – September 11, 2010
Mommy Only Has 2 Hands – September 15, 2010
Victoria’s Voice – September 15, 2010
Kim {Mama} – September 17, 2010 (Passed it on to others in their comments before this post was published)
A Grace – full Life – September 16, 2010
Sunshine Praises – September 29, 2010
Mom’s Mustard Seeds – September 29, 2010
A Slice of Smith Life – September 30, 2010
My Heart’s Desire: Health In Him – October 11, 2010
Mommy Time Out – October 13, 2010
The Unexpected Education – April 6, 2011
Karima’s Blogs – April 7, 2011
The Steady hand – April 7, 2011
Indiana Inker – May 20, 2011
Kortney’s Krazy Life – May 30, 2011
The Gentle Flower – June 2, 2011
Lindy Legends and Other Such Nonsense – June, 3, 2011
Lala Musings – June 4, 2011
Motherhood: {truth} – June 5, 2011
Always Just a Mom – June ?, 2011 (open to invited readers only)
Far From Camelot – June 7, 2011
insignificant at best – June 8, 2011
Depression Cookies – August 23, 2011
Punk Rock Psychic – August 26, 2011
Frugal Science – August 26, 2011
the artful blogger – August 31, 2011
psychodynamom – September 16
scatteringmoments – September 17
Aurora Morealist – September 17, 2011
Revelling In the Overflowing Grace of God – September 2o, 2011
Resting in His Grace – (passed on to others in comments; blogged January 19, 2012)
A Father’s Love – September 21, 2011
Jesus Carries Me – September 21, 2011
Still Growing – October 18, 2011
wordtabulous – October 24, 2011
Kana’s Chronicles – October 25, 2011
sparklebumpsthebookwhore – October 25, 2011
sandylikeabeach – October 25, 2011
traveldestinationbucketlist – October 25, 2011
steve allen photography – October 27, 2011
David Heilman – October 29, 2011
photographyofnia – October 30, 2011
Cats & Co – November 18, 2011
Gabrielle Angel and Autumn Sunshine – November 18, 2011
poeticjourney251 – November 18
PryncesSyndrome – November 29, 2011
LScott Poetry – December 1, 2011
365daysofcourage – January 3, 2012
Believe Anyway – January 17, 2012
Celeste’s Stories & Writing Adventure – January 30, 2012
kenzie.kay – January 31, 2012
Shannon M. Howell – February 2, 2012
Pete Denton – Writer – March 10, 2012
Vanessa Chapman – March 13, 2012
They call me Betty – March 16, 2012
Raising a Realist – March 17, 2012
iGameMom – March 19, 2012
Peace, Love & Fabulous Things – March 21, 2012
The Shy Lion – March 27, 2012
tea and craft – April 1, 2012
My Grandmotherly Ways – April 3, 2012
Tecrin Tries – April 5, 2012
buttons and beeswax – April 17, 2012
Will Knit for Food – April 27, 2012
Celebrate Life! – April 21, 2012
Exit78

Opal at Celebrate Life has given me “The Versatile Blogger” award, which I greatly appreciate. We’ve been reading each other’s blogs since at least 2008.

Many of these blog awards have a list of requirements that go with them – which really makes them into a sort of ‘award meme’ – and this award has its own set of requirements, which I’ll be treating a tad differently.

One of the requirements is to nominate 15 bloggers that you follow regularly or have recently discovered – a little bit of linky love and sharing with others some blogs that you like.

What I started with, instead, was to trace the lineage of the Versatile Blogger award as it came to me. I went back 97 ‘generations’ of the award before I came to a blog that had died. Some of the blogs had been awarded multiple times, but I just followed one path back, making it all the way back to May 30, 2010. I’ve included links to all of the ‘generations’ of the award before me on the right.

The Versatile Blog award has been around a long while in internet time. The earliest mention I could find of it was from October 2007. There is a Versatile Blogger Award site, but its earliest post is from only a few months ago.

Another of the requirements is to tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself:

I don’t do memes or awards. I’m making a bit of an exception on this one, because it’s fun. Sometime meme and award requirements are just too much of something I’m not interested. I also don’t like to make others feel like they are obligated to do something, which is why I won’t be passing this on to anyone else.
Though I was born in the North, I’ve been a legal resident of the South for three quarters of my life. However, I was a legal resident of Texas for tax purposes when I was in the Navy and we lived in California, Connecticut, and Idaho.
I’ve spent about 15 1/2 months under water – 6 deterrent patrols on a nuclear submarine.
I didn’t need to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day – my eyes are green, as are my dad’s, bother brothers, and two of my sisters. The other sister has blue eyes.
Even though I have a bachelors degree, I’ve never been on the campus of the college I got it from. The same is true for our son-in-law. We got our degrees from the same University and they weren’t mail order or online course. We did our coursework in actual classes, but they were held on military bases.
I am a member of The Order of the Blue Nose (line crossing ceremony for the arctic circle).
I rode a bus unaccompanied to Houston from Nebraska when I was 13 to spend the summer with my mom and step-dad – I lived with my grandparents. That summer of ‘65, we lived in a very depressed area (slum?) very close to downtown. I rode a Greyhound bus unaccompanied back to Nebraska at the end of the summer.

Sipapu Natural Bridge Trail, Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah, September 30, 2011