SYW: Good Riddance to 2020, and the State of the Nation

SHARE YOUR WORLD 12-28-2020 – Melanie’s last Share Your World of 2020! Pick three words to describe this past year. (please keep them PG. Thanks).frustrating, appalling, anger-inducing What were the best books you read this year? Or the best movie you saw? The best books I’ve read this year are not new: I don’t normally read Stephen […]

FPQ: Self-Control in an Out of Control World

Fandango’s provocative question #88 is this: To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken? Or is being in control of your life just an illusion? I watched a science program the other day that discussed unanswered questions posed by quantum physics, such as the possibility that everything that […]

FDDA: A Day In My Life

Today Fandango’s Dog Days of August theme is “your daily routine.” Do you follow a daily routine? Many of us are creatures of habit. We have routines that we follow, whether it’s the time we get up each day or go to bed, what we do during the day, or how we spend our time. […]

12 Bloggerz August 2020: On the State of Our World, Our Nation and Ourselves

Rory at A Guy Called Bloke has a monthly 12 question challenge, called 12 Bloggerz August 2020. Meet the Bloggerz Directory We live in a questioning world so it’s hardly surprising that there are so many questions that are asked by people every day, week and month is it? This feature will ask you all […]

SYW: On Waiting, Refrigerators, Speaking, and Elevators

I love starting the new week with Melanie’s Share Your World! Questions: WHERE DO YOU NOT MIND WAITING?I don’t mind waiting almost anywhere if I have either a charged phone or tablet, or a book with me. If I’m in the middle of a good book, I actually LIKE waiting, so I have a good […]

On Mask Wearing and Constitutional Rights

A Guy called Bloke is asking some important questions about mask-wearing this week. Also, I’m shocked at how many people he’s seen that are not wearing them! 1] Are you currently wearing face masks when you go out into public wherever you are in the world and 2] what type of masks are you wearing? […]

5 Things: Post-Pandemic Predictions

Dr. Tanya at Salted Caramel has a weekly challenge called “5 Things” – this week she invites us to make predictions about our post-pandemic world. My predictions (for the United States of America): 1. Trump will lose the election in November, in spite of the development of a vaccine for Covid-19 or at least the […]

FPQ 78: School In Pandemic America

Fandango’s Provocative Question this week is a topic being debated in the news lately. Our non-leader Orange Man wants all the kids to return to school and virus be damned. Many, if not most, districts have been saying that online learning has had mixed results so far. I can easily believe that. Fandango’s question is: […]

6WS: An Injustice Anywhere…

AN INJUSTICE ANYWHERE THREATENS JUSTICE EVERYWHERE. This paraphrases a quote by Martin Luther King Jr. The meaning hasn’t changed – I have just reduced it to six words to qualify for the Six Word Saturday challenge hosted by Debbie Smyth’s Travel With Intent. We talk so much in the U.S.A. about freedom. Freedom is sort […]

SoCS: All I Want…

I want to participate in different challenges than I usually do. This is one of them. What I want and what I can have are very different right now. I want to be traveling somewhere, but instead am stuck at home. I want to be able to see and hug my friends, but only Zoom […]