I would like to wish a heart-felt, Happy New Year to all of my blogging friends — each and every one of them. Here is list of most of the blogs on my Google Reader.  I left those few off that haven’t updated in eons, but I hold on to just in case.  If I missed you, I promise it was inadvertent.  Drop me a line and let me know.

• Authorblog Photographer & Author extraordinaire.
• Betty’s NewsThe light and love of Dr. John’s life — and a Wordzzle-Wrangler, too!
• Bazza’s Back! Intermittently Occasionally Bazza pops in to let us know what he’s up to, voice an opinion, show off his kids, or just be obnoxious — but it’s always good!
• Brooke’s Musings My Dear, adorable, niece. She posts intermittently when she has something on her mind she just has to share.
• Capsun’s Corner A native Hawaiian who loves his home state and shares it (and dishes political hash) passionately.
• The Chrysalis Stage Nessa: a beautiful internet butterfly, not as flighty as she might seem. Get to know her.
• Controlled Chaos This photo blog is updated randomly, but the images are worth waiting for!
• Cozy Reader Jane: sharing her love for God and her family with humor and style.
• Crazy Cath’s Reflections On haiatus — I know not for how long. Cath?
• Crows & Daisies A daily dose of photo and verse, served together deliciously.
• Dr. John’s Fortress The blog that has it all, humor, passion (for God, family & life in general), memes, short stories, photographs, and a daily episode of life in Pigeon Falls, the little village in Dr. John’s basement where there is nothing usual about “life as usual”.
• Fish Eye A photograph a day (usually) where one is often challenged to view things in a non-traditional way.
• Gattina Keyhole Pictures The photographs of a lady who has time to travel and enjoy it; and — when she’s not traveling — over interesting and intriguing offerings.
• GEL’s Emerald Eyes This Green Eyed Girl is new to my blogroll. She shares her art and her poetry with whimsy and gusto!
• Glimpses Intangible Sporadically updated, here you will find poetic gems and exhortations to participate in life rather than watch it pass by.
• Heaven in Belgium Jientje — she cooks, she takes photographs, she crafts, she blogs — and she makes it all look easy!
• Holly’s Never Ever Land I so miss Holly! She has wandered off and left me without my daily dose of side-splitting, oh -my-sides-hurt laughter.
• Insanity Prevails The Incomparable Melli. She lives life with so much joy it splashes out of her blog and infects everyone who reads it.
• I Was Born2Cree8 HEre you will get glimpses of one woman’s life in her private zoo full of beloved and treasured pets. She also shares spiritual insights, weather reports, and photographs.
• Jamie Dawn’s Mindless Blather Jamie cannot be described. She must be experienced. Prepare yourself to laugh out loud.
• Jule’s Stones Jules chronicles her faith walk with candor and humility, telling us what she has learned living her life with uncompromising faith.
• Kaleidoscope The name says it all. Here you will get random scenes from Cindy’s life. Some written, some visual — all worth reading.
• Kat’s random thoughts Kat’s thoughts have grown so very random of late, I fear someone might pull the plug ….
• Lew’s Pics 365 Days in photographs — and today he posted 366 …..
• Lisa Bolton Arts Now here is talent! Go look. This lady turns egg shells into art!
• Little Elijah The cutest toddler in Australia.
• Maremagnum This globetrotting lady posts pics and tales of her travels.
• The Mattress Police He thinks he’s funny. He could be right. You decide. And for sure check out his weekly caption contest!
• Neenz, From the Mind of Slow to update. Mind is either very, very busy — or empty?  ;)  Neenz?
• New Kid on the Blog Alastair — the fab tattooed, pierced, motorcycle-riding, English Vicar.
• Nicole Wilker – blogging about her family, and a certain elephant we all love.
  
• The Old Fart’s Blog The life of a Canadian bus driver one trip at a time — with nuggets of humor, insight and/or wisdom sprinkled in here and there.
• Present Tense Everyday a new photo from Andrew — who sometimes ventures beyond Van Buren, Arkansas to take them.
• Random Thoughts of a Single Mom Random and infrequent. When she’s too busy to post, this mom shares faith songs and/or poems.
• Reba’s Run A sweet and savvy Rottweiler who is often confused by human customs.
• Round The Bend The talent evident in this blog is incredible. The lady writes well, takes outstanding photographs and shares articulate and moving local history posts. She gardens, she crafts — and she’s a young, beautiful, doting grandma.
• Serenity Days Amber — she came to blogging in search of serenity and hasn’t found it yet, but for the most part she’s having fun along the way!
• Scabiosa Trenta usually photos, occasionally prose, on rare occasions personal thoughts, and — when she’s truly inspired — a mixture of two or more.
• Cath’s Cradle Hasn’t been rockin’ much lately.
• This Old Farm Shelly isn’t blogging as frequently as she used to, but her posts still share beautiful scenery, and beautiful thoughts from a beautiful heart.
• Thoughts of A Father Work has taken Robert away from us. I wait for his occasional posts and glimpses of his outstanding photography.
• Truth is Freedom Prose, poetry and politics — not necessary in that order.
• Views From Raven’s Nest some days Raven shares her photo views. Other days she shares her political views. Always she shares a passion for peace and justice.
• Waking Ambrose Here a growly dog dishes out misogynistic humor a la Ambrose Bierce, and charmingly updates it for the 21st century. Interestingly enough, the Dawg’s admirers are mostly female ….
• Watch My Aerogrow A garden on your kitchen counter. What will they think of next?

Of course I am certain that you all know that as far as I am concerned the very best of 2008 was my own, wonderful OC — who makes my heart sing (though he’s just as happy when my mouth doesn’t.)