Travel with Intent hosts the Six-Word Saturday Challenge as well as the One Word Sunday Challenge. This week’s One Word Sunday Challenge is GLASS. On her last…… Read more “One Word Sunday: GLASS”
Category: Relatives
Lens-Artists Challenge # 205: The Eyes Have It
Thank you, Travels and Trifles, for the prompt. Self’s post is Prague-themed: In May 2019, she and niece Irene went to Prague, our last trip together before…… Read more “Lens-Artists Challenge # 205: The Eyes Have It”
One Word Sunday: PLAIN
Today’s post is a blast from the past: 20 years ago, son and his two cousins visiting from New York, looking out at San Francisco Bay and…… Read more “One Word Sunday: PLAIN”
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC): Garden Ornaments
Cee Neuner: This week our topic is celebrating Metal of any type. Since it is such a beautiful day, more like summer, self went around her backyard,…… Read more “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC): Garden Ornaments”
Law #19 of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene: Know Who You Are Dealing With
This book came highly recommended by her relatives in Bacolod. The author is/was a Harvard prof, the publisher is Penguin, and it’s been out quite a long…… Read more “Law #19 of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene: Know Who You Are Dealing With”
SquareOdds #10: Prague Castle
Self has been on three trips with her niece, Irene, each one organized by her niece. Self is so grateful. She’s not the best at organizing. With…… Read more “SquareOdds #10: Prague Castle”
John M’Cullough, Raised by the Delawares
In July 1756, a Delaware war party abducted John M’Cullough from western Pennsylvania “to replace a dead kinsman.” He was ritually “dunked” in the Allegheny River (he…… Read more “John M’Cullough, Raised by the Delawares”
Back to Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the verse translation by Simon Armitage
Self is reading three books at the moment: My Heart, by Semzedin Mehmehdinovic (which she is hugely enjoying — it’s her first ever book by a Bosnian…… Read more “Back to Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the verse translation by Simon Armitage”
The Birthday Boys, p. 49
Beryl Bainbridge chooses to tell the story of Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed expedition to the south pole in first person, and places each chapter in the mind…… Read more “The Birthday Boys, p. 49”
citysonnet colors and letters photo challenge: 28 November 2021
The color for 28 November is ORCHID. Self does not have an orchid (or anything blooming that’s close to the color that’s on citysonnet’s November Challenge page.…… Read more “citysonnet colors and letters photo challenge: 28 November 2021”
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