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...If I Could Donate $100,000 to Any Charity, Which One and Why? I actually have two immediate responses to this, one practical and one emotional. My practical charity choice: The Nature Conservancy . I fully support the outcomes they are working toward and the methods that t

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 include s Deb’s World ,  Marsha in the Middle , Rosie Amber , Suzy Turner , Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever after Again , Atypical 60 , and me. This month, Suzy selected the topic of Style Icons...and I decided to go in a bit of an unusual direction by not focusing

Salazar at 14 Shades of Grey is the curator for this round of Style Imitating Art (SIA), and she selected the circa 1870s painting "The Garden of the Hesperides" by English Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. She chose this painter because she loves the Pre-Raphaelites, and she picked this particular artwork because of the " spring-like subject matter (the Hesperides are the nymphs who tend to Hera’s orchard, where the Apple of Discord that started the Trojan War cam