The Best of 2015

As we close out 2015 this week we thought our posts would focus on recapping the year.  It's hard to imagine but we will have posted 80 times in the past year.  Obviously we have too much time on our hands since our lives aren't that exciting.  Therefore the next two post will be a CliffNotes version of the year.  This post is about our best posts from a writing and journalistic perspective.  Later in the week we will publish the highlights of the year.  Arthur is all about efficiency so readers can read two posts to get a snapshot of what we did or were thinking about in the past year.

Each year Pulitzer prizes are award for journalism and literature split into several different categories.  Here are our "Pulitzers" for the year.

Feature Reporting:  An American Story.   In this post we take a look back about how our lives and our families' history and future has been shaped by immigration. 

Political Satire: Executive Authority.  This post was an exploration of the roles of a husband and wife in a marriage compared to the Presidential Cabinet.

Best Use of Photography:  This is My Father's World.  A classic hymn set to pictures depicting the beauty of the White Mountains in New Hampshire.

Investigative Journalism into Marriage: Titans Clashing, Harmoniously. We explored how our different Myers-Briggs personalities interact in our marriage, for better or for worse.

Best Beat Reporting:  Dress Rehearsal.  The majority of our posts chronicle our day to day activities and we picked this as the best.  The use of alliteration such as "bovine beasts" used in this post helped push it over the top. 

We are also experimenting with increasing our interaction with those who read the blog by encouraging commenting.  I think we have it set up to allow comments now (hopefully).  We would also like to do a Reader's Choice for the year so comment below to vote for your favorite blog of 2015.  It could be one of those listed above or anything else we have written this year (Using the archive links on the right hand column may be helpful).  Omnia Vincit Amor.