My Wife Is 2008 Person Of The Year & This Blog Is 2008 Blog Of The Year
For my last post of the year, I’ve selected my wife as 2008 person of the year, and my blog, Texas Liberal, as 2008 blog of the year.
Above you see my wife and myself. Please also note the people behind us celebrating the wife’s selection as 2008 person of the year. (This picture shows how we dress for dinner each night.)
There was no other candidate for person of the year. My wife is the best wife ever.
As for the blog of the year selection, I admit I had to ignore a number of blogs that are better than this one. However, once I did, the choice was clear.
My favorite post to write this year was If Polar Bears Could Vote. In that post I was able to run the picture you see below of Polar Bears capturing a submarine.
Thanks to my wife for a great year.
And thanks to everyone who visted Texas Liberal in 2008. I set a goal of 1000 views a day for 2008. I ended up at or around 911 depending on the last day. That’s a good showing from the 177 a day I did last year. My goal for 2009 is 1,250 a day. We’ll see.
Good luck to you and yours in year ahead.
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Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
A blog grows one reader at a time. If you like what you read here, please consider forwarding the link.
Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
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Happy New Year, Neil.
May 2009 bring you closer to whatever it is you are looking and hoping for. 2008 was ok no complaints from me, my daughter became a teenager, we elected obama as president,I went to mexico and few other places. I am more hopeful yet cautious about what this year will bring.
Happy New Year…this is going to be a much better year with the new administration coming in. Democrat Dave
Whosplayin, Bill, Dave—Thank you all for your New Year’s Greetings. It’s going to be a good and hopeful year.