It’s Sunday and I am home again, home again, after a wonderful holiday shared with family and friends in Pennsylvania.  I am so blessed and there is not a day that goes by that I don’t realize it and send up a “thank you.”

There is so much to be done and the holidays are upon us!  I have received winter photographs from Eunice and submissions from several new writers that I cannot wait to share with you all. There are new biographies to post on the contributors’ page.  I have articles to write.  And poems in my head.  So I am home this afternoon and working away.

New challenges lie ahead.  New ideas.  Growth.  Don’t forget to keep changing and stretching yourself.  Never hesitate to reach out to me with questions, ideas, and comments.  Use our Facebook page to connect to each other and further share your work, as well as other ideas you may have.  Make 20 Lines a second home.  Or a first one, if you like.

And from both Alex and Eunice, we have been awarded the 2012 Blogger of the Year Award, and I did accept the awards on behalf of all of you, who warm and inspire me with your courage, your effort, your talent.  Thank you, Alex and Eunice.  I will attempt to do honor to this award faithfully.  And thank you, to each contributor and reader.  You are the breathers of life into this space.

Keep going.  Keep writing.  Keep looking for that next photograph that will touch us all.

Cheers.  And happy everything.

Melissa Hassard