While I am away from my blog, I have selected and scheduled articles from several categories. A different theme will post each day.

Today’s roundup theme is life, including blog awards and links/tips. Life posts about travel, events, and the writing life are posted in the other categories.

Dreamstime photo.

Life

• Could You Answer the Dream Job Question? I Couldn’t–At First
• 40 Years and Counting (friendship)
• Quick Sunday Funny
• Taxing Tax Time A-Z Poem 1
• Taxing Tax Time A-Z Poem 2
• Harbinger of Winter Does Not Stop Festival City
• Orange Clouds, Rainbow Sun Dogs, Blue-White Snow
• Pink Sun, Purple Sky, Diamond Snow … And Fluffy Bunnies?
• The Longest Night of the Year
• When Snow Gets You Down, Write Songs
• Geek Strikes Again as Daylight Returns (If you like the science of weather, sunrise/sunset, and latitude, you’ll find this post informative.)
• Another Weather Post–Jeez, When Will She Quit! (What Edmontonians are really like: parkas and shorts–at the same time. Edmonton temperature records and book titles about winter survival.)
• “The Cold Was Just Sitting in Floating Blankets of Pure Brrr” (A title based on how my daughter described this cold day.)
• How “The Walking Dead” Saved Me (From this to the two posts below. What a contrast.)
• TWD: Season 6 Analysis: Is This All We Can Be?
• TWD: “You’re Going Down a Path I Can’t Follow”

Celebrating 40 years of friendship.

Awards

• Blogger Recognition Award
• One Lovely Blog Award
• Mystery Blogger Award (Got this one in May 2017. My write-up is coming soon.)

Thank you to the wonderful people who nominated me for these awards!

Links and tips

• Links & Tips page: brain – fiction – music – art – curriculum – health & well-being – reading tips – writing tips – editing & revision

Tomorrow is the final post of the June 2017 Roundup series, with interviews, guest posts, and the A to Z Blogging Challenge.