Category: Wednesday Blogging Challenge

  Hmm. I enjoy laughter, but it take a fair amount to make me laugh out loud. Usually my type of humour is on the darker, more irreverent, usually sweary end of the spectrum. British and all that. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to give examples of shows I found funny or share some READ MORE

  This week’s challenge prompt is books to include in a time capsule and why. I’m having a bit of trouble with this one. I think because the idea behind a time capsule is to capture a particular point in time and save it for posterity. But we’re in the middle of a global pandemic. READ MORE

  This week’s topic is what I do to recharge. And if I’m honest, after more than a year and a half of COVID-19, I don’t really know anymore. I feel like I’ve been functioning on like 25% of a charge for at least a year and 5 months of that. I vaguely remember something READ MORE

  I’ve had several pets in my lifetime. I’m not going to pick a favourite, because that wouldn’t be possible or a fair thing to ask for. But I will introduce you to one of my current cats. His name is Opie, and he’s a tiny ball of fur who is super friendly and really READ MORE

  The actual prompt for this week was a TV shows/books/movie that could be about me, but I couldn’t really think of any. So instead, I’m choosing a few characters I’d like to be, either long-term or for a day. People who either have some character trait that I admire or who get to do READ MORE

  I’m not going to take this prompt literally, because if I did the entire list would be medicines that I literally can’t live without, my kid, and maybe food and water, and man that would be a boring list (other than my kid, of course, who is the best). So let’s try to find READ MORE

  So I’m not that big on holidays as a rule, but all the indifference I load onto Easter, Thanksgiving, Canada Day and Victoria Day is balanced out by my complete enthusiasm when it comes to Christmas. There are some great Christmas recipes that we make in my family, but I also use it as READ MORE

  This is a great but difficult prompt. I can tell you right now, I will not be picking only one book this week! I enjoy memoirs if they’re well written and about an interesting person’s life and experiences. Even if it’s a person I don’t care about that much, if the book is good, READ MORE

  I love a novel that can make me care so deeply for the characters that when something bad happens, it feels like it’s happening to me or someone I love. Likewise if I find a memoir or non-fiction that makes me feel deeply invested and involved, it will stay with me forever. I couldn’t READ MORE

This is a great prompt, but not so much for me. I don’t watch many movies these days, and I can never remember actors or their names. The best I could come up with was this:      I love The Uncommon Reader. But the only really important casting choice in it is who plays READ MORE

  I’m guessing this prompt was thought up either before we entered the pandemic, or in a wild fit of optimism. For me, quite frankly, the answer to this is: any vacation. ANYTHING. Anything that would mean time off from worrying, the ability to sleep for days, eat what I want and not have to READ MORE

  I’m writing this in April because I know I won’t have time later, so I’m cheating a bit. But here are some things I recently Googled, though none of them are that interesting: How much protection from Covid-19 do you have one week after getting the Pfizer vaccine? I and a few people in READ MORE

  I’m not sure about this one, because at what point does a thing become a treat? At what point an indulgence? And in times like this, isn’t anything that makes the day feel bearable a necessity? But here are some of the things that bring me the most physical enjoyment, and I guess none READ MORE

  It took me a while to find people I connected with when I was a kid. Because I spent so much time alone and so much time reading, I have a very strong sense that some of the characters I read about in books were my friends. Some of the top characters I connected READ MORE