SYW: Magic, Bad Smells, Bad Bosses, & Voting

A new week, a new set of questions in Melanie’s Share Your World! Questions: In your opinion, what’s the closest thing to real magic?When the first flowers of spring appear after a long winter. Where is the worst smelling place you’ve been?The basement of our former house. It was an old house and prone to […]

30-Day Film Challenge: Days 3 & 4 – Lina Wertmuller and British Humor

Sandman Jazz is back with a new 30-day challenge, this time about movies. Days 3 & 4 can be combined because both of the movies that made me laugh (Day 3) so hysterically I nearly peed my pants start with “The” (which is Day 4). Back in the 70s, I got really into foreign films […]

Perspectives Great & Small

Sometimes a photograph cannot convey the bigness or smallness of something unless it is given perspective by including another object whose dimensions we are familiar with. For example, I can post photos of the immense pillars of Karnak in Egypt, built 3,500 years ago, but you can really get an idea of how massive they […]

FPQ: Satisfaction

Fandango’s Provocative Question #76 is a very personal one, really. I always feel compelled to be as honest as possible. Here it is: Are you satisfied with your life at the moment. If so, what is it that brings you the greatest satisfaction? If not, what might you do to achieve satisfaction in your life? […]

July Square Perspective: A Swan Story

Becky is back with her July photo challenge! This month the theme is perspective. Becky reviews the definitions of perspective to help get started: Art – the method by which solid objects drawn or painted on a flat surface are given the appearance of depth and distance. Geometry – the way that objects appear smaller when they […]

The Changing Seasons: June 2020

The Changing Seasons, sponsored by Su Leslie, is a monthly challenge where bloggers around the world share what’s been happening in their month. If you would like to join in, here are the guidelines: The Changing Seasons Version One* (photographic): Each month, post 5-20 photos in a gallery that you feel represent your monthDon’t use […]

SYW: Evidence vs. Belief, Happiness vs. Sadness, and Gravity

I love Mondays when Melanie issues a new Share Your World! Questions: Must we have evidence to know the truth?Yes. However, people have different ideas of what constitutes evidence. For example, if someone commits a crime and goes to trial, it is up to the jury to examine the evidence presented in order to assess […]

Book Challenge: Bad Guys, Strong Women & Ancient Civilizations

3 more days of Sandman Jazz’s Book Challenge. Day 25: Book villain you actually love: This was a hard one! I finally came up with Severus Snape, from the Harry Potter series. That is, I THOUGHT he was a villain, working for Voldemort. Of course, this turned out not to be the case, so he wasn’t […]

SYW: ‘Crime’ Scenes

It’s Monday once again and time for Melanie’s Share Your World! Her questions this week are all about criminal behavior we may have engaged in. (No, not serious stuff – just petty crime!) Have you ever ‘dined and dashed” (i.e. eaten the meal and then run out the restaurant door without paying)? Yes, but only […]

30-Day Book Challenge: 19, 20, 21 – concerning Irish accents and poets

This post is in response to Sandman Jazz’s June 30-Day book challenge. Day 19: An audiobook you like because of the narrator’s voice: I have listened to very few audiobooks because my ADHD doesn’t allow my brain to concentrate for long on spoken narration. But one that I really loved was Angela’s Ashes read by […]