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.