Jamie, the creator of the delightful Grandmother Musings blog which can be found at http://grandmothermusings.com/ has just nominated me for a cool award that I have never heard of before. It is the Blog of the Year 2012 Award. Thank you, Jamie!
As I’ve been recently doing with most award nominations, I plan to visit all of the blogs she nominated and usually end up following some of them too. I recognise some on her list that I already follow, but greatly look forward to also checking out the rest.
I find that such an approach to award nominations can help spread the love to many blogs and I feel it is in the spirit of the awards if not the letter of the laws (the growing lists of things that many awards request that bloggers do when nominated for them.)
I sincerely hope that my response is acceptable to those who kindly and thoughtfully have nominated me for various awards.
Russ
Russ Towne's A Grateful Man 
Just a comment re having to login each time I come…On your dashboard…Settings…Discussion…Do you have checked off that to make comments users must sign in?? Just wondering if that is why……Diane
Thank you very much for the detailed guidance as to how to checkt hat setting, Diane. I knew I had set the “Comment author must have previously approved comment” setting to avoid spammers or those whose intent is not in keeping with the vision of most bloggers, but when I looked, sure enough, somehow the “everyone must sign in” -type message had been checked too. I don’t know how that happened, but it has now been unchecked. It’s weird that the problem comes and goes. Thank you for hanging in there with me and helping me to find out what was wrong and how I could hopefully fix it.
Russ