The winner of the two subscriptions to All You magazine has been chosen, so if you didn’t hear from me it wasn’t you.

The response to the giveaway was so enthusiastic that I plan to do it again at some point — and in the meantime, the magazine is providing a little holiday consolation prize.

The 2011 Talkeetna Bachelors Auction and Wilderness Woman Competition has come and gone in its usual whirlwind of oddity. Funny how it all seemed so normal at the time.

Last year I wrote about the auction in extensive detail. This year I decided to deliver scenes from the weekend as a series of tweets. I’m doing this because I need to get in the habit of posting more often on Twitter.

Note: This doesn’t change my conviction that no one should use the verb “tweet” unless he is, in fact, a bird.

Happy birthday! Here’s some freebies. That’s the subject of my recent MSN Money column.

I don’t bring this up to make you nervous about shopping. Instead, I want to point out that we all have choice about how – and whether – to buy.

I wish I had unlimited prizes so that everyone could be a winner. I don’t. Is it too corny to say I think you’re all winners?

(It is? Well, too late. I just said it.)

Here’s how the first-anniversary giveaway turned out: