Welcome back to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live! I am lucky to have joined a terrific group of bloggers who give a peek into the places and spaces where they spend their time. Today's topic is Things You'll Always Hear Me Say...and one of them is "This month, I will get a start on my Where Bloggers Live post early." I say it, but it never seems to happen! I always get started the day before it's due. This post is coming out late because I was knocked out by a mig

I am fortunate to have joined a talented group of bloggers for the Global Writing Challenge. Each month, we write about a very broadly defined topic, and the responses are quite varied. The newly revised group includes Deb’s World, Marsha in the Middle, Suzy Turner, Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After Again, Cat's Wire, Coffee and Cocktails at the Casa, and me. This month, Marsha selected the topic Poetry...and though I knew I wanted to discuss some of my favorite Ameri

Salazar at 14 Shades of Grey is the curator for this round of Style Imitating Art (SIA), and she selected an un-named 1932 landscape ink on paper painting by Chinese literati artist Huang Binhong. She chose this artist because she had recently seen some of his work on her trip to China, and it reminded her of West Lake when she was there. source: https://14shadesofgrey.wordpress.com/ I admit that I just was not on board with an achromatic black and white outfit, but fortunate