It has been awhile since I have participated in Share Your World. It’s usually because I’m busy and don’t catch it; occasionally I can’t relate to the questions. Anyhoo, here are my responses to this week’s Melanie’s Share Your World (SYW). QUESTIONS: Why do we seem to respect the dead more than the living? Perhaps […]
Read More SYW: On Respect & Heroes, Beauty vs. Morality, Social Media, and PerfectionI am including this book review that I wrote last January, for a reading challenge I just found out about: When Are You Reading 2018. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Fiction Rating: 5 stars, BEST BOOK Finished reading: January 5, 2018 This turned out to be a wildly popular book and last April […]
Read More Book Review: “A Gentleman In Moscow” by Amor Towles (Long)SPOILER ALERT: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOLERS! I am including this entry from my personal journal in May for Sam Bishop’s When Are You Reading 2018 Challenge. Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar Fiction Rating: 5 stars Finished reading: May 24, 2018 This morning I finished reading Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar. I give it 5 stars […]
Read More Book Review: “Everybody’s Son” by Thrity Umrigar (Spoiler Alert)I don’t often do Share Your World, because I’m either too busy or can’t come up with an answer. But today I did. So here’s Cee’s Share Your World for this week: If you were given $22 million tax free dollars (any currency), what is the first thing you would do? (This is just a […]
Read More SYW: On Becoming a Millionaire, Gifts, and JoysJanuary 20, 2018 I’m always amazed at the cleverness of the signs at protest rallies and marches. I went to the Women’s March in Chicago again this year with my husband, and we met up with some friends from the western suburbs. I had planned to make a sign this year but due to circumstances […]
Read More Women’s March Chicago 2018Ooh, I love this topic! Signs are so diverse that I have an archive of sign photos! If you wish to join in the fun, Nancy Merrill has A Photo a Week Challenge every Thursday; this week’s topic is Signs. Signs can be informative… …or funny! They can be […]
Read More Signs for All OccasionsCAUTION: The images and behaviors described below may be disturbing. The word I chose this week is a new one: zoochosis. This word was coined by Bill Travers in 1992 to describe “the stereotypical behaviour of animals in captivity. Stereotypic behaviour is defined as a repetitive, invariant behaviour pattern with no obvious goal or function.” […]
Read More Word of the Week: ZoochosisOriginally posted on The happy Quitter!:
If you look at the world map, you will see that Europe is rather small. I grew up 10 minutes away from the Italian border, could drive to Germany in about 2 hours and Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Czech Republic and Hungary were just a few hundred kilometers away. Different cultures, different languages…
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustav Flaubert.
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