Searching for Everyday Miracles

On September 16th, 2010 I won my first purple star, and I was only recently awarded my second purple star award for a more recently finished lens on March 17th, 2011. This is an incredible honor! I would love to know who nominated these lenses for purple stars. If it was you, please come forward!

I would love eventually for all of my Women of Strength and Courage to be awarded with Purple Stars. I work very hard on this series. You will be able to see more lenses in this niche further down the page.

I just received my third purple star tonight, on March 25th, 2011. Yes, that's two in a two week period. I'm thrilled. Thank you so much for nominating my Hunger Games Movie lens and for finding it worthy!

I missed out on paying forward the first purple star. I had no idea what I was doing, and I hadn't been around Squidoo for a while when I discovered that I had it. I'm very sorry about that! So I've paid forward one purple star -- so far!

I first started out writing historical pieces on Hubpages. They weren't popular and they didn't fit with the overall tone of the site. I wasn't happy at Hubpages in general, and I decided to bring my planned series here, to Squidoo. Once there are five lenses in this series I am determined to make its own lensography. For now there are four and a fifth in progress, with another twenty-five or so lenses planned. These lenses take a lot of work to put together in terms of research and designing the lens, so I do hope that you can appreciate why I so rarely publish one!

I would love to see these lenses all get purple stars, so if you're a Giant 100 member and you happen upon one of them and think that they are worthy, I would appreciate the nomination. Marie Curie took me months to finish and I still think that it needs work (just to show you how much effort goes into these).

I really thought that I had claimed this niche, right up until the point when it became too exhausting to try to keep up with Carl's Sims 3 Guide. Please don't misunderstand; I will continue to write lenses in this niche, but it takes a lot of time to put them together and I would rather let Carl, Pam and Metro do what they do so well instead of me taking their business for my own. What I can do better, I will; what I can't, I won't even try to compete!

These aren't technically book lenses. At the time that I wrote them, I was active on a Warriors role playing site that I was really enjoying. I created both of these lenses in order to help the site owner to promote the site. It was the #1 in Google at the time, but Google updates were resulting in some drops, and I wanted to help to promote a site that I loved. I did it in a way that I think was healthy, and I still enjoy these lenses. A couple of times a week, somebody takes the quiz.

At this point I do plan on actually reading the series and reviewing the books. I got my hands on a couple at Half Price Books the other day and was surprised by the quality of the writing!

I have worked up a whole "mini series" on The Hunger Games and plan on expanding this little niche. I hope that you enjoy it!

Yeah, yeah. I know. I'm in my thirties and I'm not supposed to enjoy this series. Trust me, it's been drilled into my head that I shouldn't enjoy these books. It's too bad. I do!