Courageous Blogging Award

Karen Putz over at a Deaf Mom Shares Her World http://putzworld.blogspot.com/ passed on to me today the Courageous Blogging Award. This award was created by Christy over at Writer's Reviews: http://www.writersreviews.com/2007/07/time-to-give-out-some-blogger-awards.html

Thank you so much, Karen! You are AWESOME and I am honored you thought of me! :)

This made me ask myself: What makes a courageous blogger? I really think a "courageous blogger" can be defined as someone willing to open up a personal side of themselves to share with the blogging community. I have received some heavy criticism from family for getting personal in my blogs and journals before. But I have also received emails and instant messages from readers who tell me they were inspired, humored, enlightened and informed by something I blogged about. And I really think this type of influence on readers is much more beneficial than bottling everything up to not share with anyone at all.

This very opinion has made me think about others I know who have done the same thing. Particularly, other bloggers. And so I am passing this award on to them:

Frank Baron: http://fpbaron.blogspot.com/

Jenna Glatzer: http://jennaglatzer.blogspot.com/

Remembering LaWana: http://www.rememberinglawana.com/blog.htm