Burning Down the House – Westword Web Award for Best Personal Blog of 2010!
Here’s the review from the judges:
Best Personal Blog: Burningdownthehouseblog.com
“A touching, incredibly well-written blog by a woman whose house has burned down twice — once at the age of twelve and again in the Four Mile Canyon fire earlier this year. No persona, just enthralling entries from a rare perspective.”
Slight Media Frenzy - Look What's on the Big Screen.
Feisty Fire Survivor Wins Big Award in Spite of Her Life Going Completely to Pieces. Go figure!
No persona? I’d say you have LOTS of persona! Maybe you were being compared to Nellie, the Queen of Persona. Unfair contest.
Congratulations on a well-deserved (but hard-earned) award.
(… goes back to mostly lurking …)
Thanks h_0_h!
A friend of mine wrote me an email that said, “May you continue to win awards that cost less than a house (and all your possessions!)” That gave me a chuckle.
Thanks for coming out of lurk mode and stopping by.
Congratulations! You are a great writer. Feeling gratitude for reading your blog and lurking.
Kathryn
Thank You Kathryn!
Well-deserved I say.
Congrats, Andi! This is well-deserved. I also lost my home in the fire, so I find that much of what you say resonates with me. I’ve been pointing my friends to your blog, as that keeps me from having to write to them individually or in my blog. I just tell them I would say the same thing, if I could write as well as you do. Your words have been so helpful in my journey. Thanks so much.
Hi Deb,
It is so nice to hear from you. I loved reading your story, and next time you comment, please put a live link on your name so everyone can go read your blog.
This award is for all of us Fire People – all of us. I thought about everyone that night, many times – the hundreds of us who are crazy and displaced and grieving and spinning through our days of pain and loss and small triumphs and sadness. And you know what? We’re getting up each day and showing up and walking and talking, and that’s just amazing. YOU are amazing. I’m looking forward to meeting you and sharing Fire Stories. Hang in there – I’m rooting for you.
Andi
Quite the cunning look on your most splendid face. I am so sure that you are helping many people heal with every word and emotion you share.
“Cunning look,” that’s so funny Marian. Feisty! Feisty look! It’s certainly helping me heal, and I hope doing the same for others. Thanks for reading.
I’m so happy that your words are now out in the blogosphere for so many to read! And congrats on the acknowledgments!
Thank You Laurel, it’s great of you to stop by the blog. Hope all is well in your world.
Congrats! So glad to hear it!
Thank you Claudia, and Happy Thanksgiving. Looking forward to your next post!
Congratulations, Andi! Looking forward to reading more ….
Thank You Mandy! And thanks for reading. Sending you a hug…
Congratulations! Well deserved.
Thanks for the shout-out Piper! So glad you’re here. Hey everyone, go read Piper’s cool blog, at http://piperbayard.wordpress.com/
Andi, these photos say it all! I love your sparkling smile, and your outfit is very Oscars. And I love the look of admiration on the face of the guy looking at one of the screens with Burning Down the House on it. We all share that admiration.
Dear Andi,
You deserve to be recognized for you combined gifts of contemplation, writing, honesty and humor. It takes courage and skill to share grief and trauma woven with the contemplations of your unfolding healing process. I so appreciate that you are blogging through it with awareness; expressing the challenges, crying, laughing, feeling, appreciating — being human and divine through it all. I learn something from you, and Nellie with each visit to your blog.
Congratulations! I am so happy for you.
The Buddhist are about: Impermanence. The Christians say: This too shall pass.
So true, so true, yet not easy to be with those truisms when something huge occurs to us personally and takes so long to resolve. You are going through this -ism of life in a big way. Heartbreak is painful and at the same time it opens the heart more than you ever thought possible.
Hugs, Jean
Many congratulations.
Andi, just a late comment here to add my congratulations, admiration, and gratitude that you have been so open and willing to share. You are a gift.