This week's Monday Listicles is favorite characters in movies or TV, so I thought I'd travel down memory lane and write about characters I've admired and wanted to emulate throughout the years. So here goes! 1. Laurie P

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I'm feeling rather fed up because I wrote a post about our great concert last night, and then it got swallowed up by Blogger. This has happened to me several times before, but I still, clearly, haven't learned my lesson to draft my posts on Notepad and then drop them into Blogger. Silly me. In spite of

Krua Bangkok and Rice and Noodle I'm behind in my posting and have two food carts to review, both Thai/Asian. Krua Bangkok A few weeks ago Mike joined me for lunch and we tried out Krua Bangkok. According to

This week's Monday Listicles is "10 worst band names." I found an awesome "bad band name generator" online, which allows you to create your own bad band names. For example--this is what it did for me: Nautical But Nasty Love Me or Hea

Every once in awhile, Blogger completely screws up and I lose everything I write. That happened the first time I wrote this post, so I'm finally trying again. This is my monthly recap of the books I've read and reviewed on my book blog. For full reviews of these books, click on the title to go to

Think about doing something different this Mother's Day... I was gobsmacked to read that Americans are expected to spend $20.7 billion on Mother's Day this year, an average of $168.94 per mom, according

I love the simple Monday Listicle prompt for this week: 10 things I love that cost nothing. After a month of blogging daily and a weekend of being deeply grateful for intimate friendship, I'm taking it easy. 1. Belly laughs 2. A hug or cuddle 3. Music 4. The great outdoors 5. Love

Hooray--I'm so glad to have reached the last day of the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited.

 Last week I went out to the carts to see what was next in the row. I passed by the first two--just wasn't in the mood for either of them, and I also guessed I couldn't get much without white, processed flour (either a flour burrito or a hamburger bun). The "Burgers" cart had too many diffe

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited.

This week's Monday Listicle is an easy one for me, because my daily life is all about acronyms and my efforts to make writing more clear to the reader. Here are my pet peeves about acronyms, working in an environmental engineering/consulting firm:

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited.

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited.

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited. Five to go!!

U is for Ubud and Udaipur This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinat

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited. Can't believe I have only seven A to Z p

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited.

I'm going to make this blog post short, after all the epic posts I've been writing about my travel adventures. March/April has been a crazy two months, between my hubby's 50th birthday,

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited.

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited. 

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited.

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited.

This is my contribution to the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited.

It's Day 12 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited. Woo-hoo--I'm halfway th

Today's Monday Listicles topic is "ten chapters in my autobiography," and I figured that anyone reading this blog regularly probably knows way more about my life than he or she wants to. Then I wrote a draft of "the next ten chapters in my life," but then I decided to honor my mother-in-law with a post on her 74th birthday-

It's Day 12 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'm focusing on overseas destinations I've visited. 

This week I returned to