“Everything good, everything magical, happens between the months of June and August.”-- Jenny Han. This week the Wednesday challenge from partner Susan and me is OUTDOOR FUN.  In North America, the months of June through August are typically devoted to getting away from the routine stuff and jumping in the car and heading for parts unknown... Continue Reading →

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. "-Henry David Thoreau This week's Wednesday Challenge on partner Susan and my site is GARDEN ART.  A B S T R A C T  G A R D E N ... Continue Reading →

"Cleaning isn't just about vanquishing the dust. It's about rejuvenating your space."- Google quote. This week's Wednesday Challenge on partner Susan and my site is CLEAN-UP.  Birds clean out their nests. Bees housekeep their hives. Human beings often perform this clean-up process in the spring or at worst early summer. The inside and outside areas... Continue Reading →

"Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?" - Rachel Nichols This week's Wednesday challenge on partner Susan and my site is the word CARTS.   With the invention of the wheel, man began his love affair with and dependency on... Continue Reading →

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca. This week's Wednesday challenge on partner Susan and my site is the word ALARMS. Today there is an alarm for everything. Car alarms. Fire alarms. Burglar alarms. Patient alarms in hospitals.... Continue Reading →

"My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!- Jeff Foxworthy. This week's Wednesday challenge on partner Susan and my site is the word PARALLEL.   In math, parallel means two lines that never intersect — think of an... Continue Reading →

" Simple things like ironing my clothes, doing laundry, making my bed made me feel independent and gave me the sense of accomplishment that I can do it myself."- Athiya Shetty This week's Wednesday challenge on partner Susan and my site is  PRESSING MATTERS. Are you old enough to remember the good old days when... Continue Reading →

"A man begins cutting his first wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew." - Don Quixote. This week's challenge on partner Susan and my site is MISSING.  Once again I have gone off on a creative tangent and defined a version of the challenge as a popular condition many... Continue Reading →

“New Jersey is the diner capital of the world,  boasting 600 diners. It has all the right elements like a transportation system, large working-class population and many diner manufacturing companies.” - paste magazine. On Weekly Prompts this week, the Wednesday challenge from partner Susan and myself is RETRO FIT. Many times the word "retro" connotes... Continue Reading →

"Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the time, but have never made it out of their boxes." - Sheherazade Goldsmith. This week's challenge on partner Susan and my site is Gadgets. Gadgets - do you have a... Continue Reading →