
Muchos gracias to Happy Whimsical Hearts for adding me to her list of 15 and giving me the opportunity to tip my hat to 15 other inspiring blogs.
The Rules of the Game
- Thank the person that nominated you with a link back to them.
- Tell 7 things about yourself.
- Pass this award on to 15 newly discovered blogs and let them know that they've received an award.
Seven Things About Alina
- I was born in Romania and raised in Alabama. I come from the breed known as "globalized mutt".
- I am a hopeful (as opposed to hopeless) romantic.
- Rather than be an expert at anything in particular, I have chosen to be a dabbler and a dilettante who keeps her fingers in as many pies as possible and maintains a hearty appetite for more.
- Just because you scare or coerce your child into proper conventional behavior does not make you a good parent. "Goodness" is a process, a mode of being, not a result.
- I am captivated by different countries, cultures, and folkways.
- Poetry fills the cracks in my days.
- No one could have told me that my feminism would lead me to being a home-schooling, stay-at-home mom. But it did. I am still learning so many things...
Now for my favorite part...
Fifteen Newly Discovered Blogs (in no particular order):

































