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The Versatile Blogger Award

6/22/2012

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I am honored to receive the Versatile Blogger Award from Jeri Walker-Bickett (thank you Jeri!) who passed it on to me. I am now supposed to reveal 7 things about myself and then pass the award to other deserving bloggers. Here I go:


1) I was born in Cuba one year before Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista dictatorship, and went on to establish a dictatorship of his own. My parents finally decided to leave the country when I returned one day from elementary school singing the Internationale.

2) As you can figure out from #1, my first language is Spanish. This is probably why I write and read English slower than the average person.

3) I have a Ph.D. in biochemistry.

4) Each of the last 3 generations of my immediate family has ended up resettling to a different country for one reason or another.

5) I myself have lived in a total of 5 countries throughout my life: Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, and the United States.

6) I played chess in my youth (that is what nerds did at the time) reaching first class player status.

7) The first time I lived surrounded by snow was here in the U.S. I arrived in New York State during winter to pursue graduate studies. I had a cold, and that day there was a fire alarm at 2 AM. We had to leave the student residence, and outside it was snowing. There I was coughing under this strange, cold, fluffy, white stuff falling from the sky while the Americans around me where dancing and yelling, “Party, party, party!” All in all an interesting cultural experience.

I am passing this award on to other bloggers. If they accept the award they are supposed to publish a post on their blogs with the “Versatile Blogger Award” picture, where they reveal 7 things about themselves and then pass the award on to other deserving bloggers of their choice. The bloggers I have chosen are:

Adriene (Sweepy Jean) posts her amazing poetry on her blog and examines multiple facets of life and society.

Barbara Alfaro is the author of the books "Mirror Talk"and "First Kiss." She blogs about writing, theater, and poetry. Barbara  is so expressive and writes so well that many of her posts are works of art themselves.

Christine Macdonald is a survivor. She survived a disfiguring skin disease, working as a nude exotic dancer, drug addiction, cancer, and other trials that taught her many life lessons. She blogs about these and other related issues while working on her memoir.

Lia London deals in her blog mostly with writing, but she reaches deep within the act of writing to the underlying reasons and their interconnectness to many things. She is the author of the book: "Circle of Law."

Jennie Rosenbaum paints superb nude artworks and blogs about it. She also addresses censorship and other issues related to nudity in our societies. I have interviewed Jennie on my blog.

Molly Greene writes insightful and helpful posts in her blog about social media and writing. Her debut novel “Mark of the Loon” was published recently on Amazon.

Robert David McNeil is the author of the top rated Science Fiction novel on Amazon “Iona Portal.” He blogs about writing, social media, the e-book revolution, and his ongoing adventure.

Sunny Lockwood in her blog Onword, is (as she puts it) mining life's golden moments from California's Mother Lode. Her posts are a delightful blend that ranges from the personal to the communal within the context of her California neck of the woods and the writing life. She is the author of the books “Living the Velvet Revolution” and "Shades of Love." 


Congratulations bloggers!

6 Comments
Adriene link
6/22/2012 08:28:19 pm

First, congrats on receiving this well-deserved award: It seems your versatility is a result of your fascinating life! What a wealth of experience you have to draw from and I for one hope you write more about it some day.Thank you for bestowing the honor on me. I look forward to visiting the other blogs listed here.

All the best, Dr. Garcia! ;p

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Rolando link
6/23/2012 11:09:43 am

Thank you Adriene. Moving around so much does give one many more perspectives. You realize you don't belong to a specific place except the one you make for yourself.

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Jeri link
6/26/2012 04:17:04 am

It's good to see you pass on the award! Can I ask what prompted your interest in biochemistry?

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Rolando link
6/26/2012 08:08:27 am

Thanks Jeri. I was always curious about life. I wanted to know how living things worked and why they are the way they are. Those interests took me to the molecular realm, hence biochemistry as opposed to physiology. With hindsight that might have proven to be too much of a reductionist approach, but it worked out OK.

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Patricia Lynne link
7/5/2012 02:06:58 am

Interesting facts.

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Rolando link
7/5/2012 08:38:58 am

From an interesting life, which was a bit chaotic but turned out all right in the end! : ^ )

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