Welcome to Wednesday Hodgepodge!   As ever, thanks to Joyce for posing questions each week.

Click here, if you'd like to play along ... there's plenty of time!

Do you (or did you used to ) watch talk shows?  Which are -- or were -- your favorite?

I've not watched a 'talkie' since Johnny Carson retired.  Aside from the occasional Hoda and Jenna segment -- or a Newsmax op-ed -- I avoid (what passes for) late-night entertainment like the plague.

Would you describe yourself as resilient?  If so, what do you think makes you that way?  If you answered 'no' explain why.

Absolutely. I won't speak of it -- but there have been times in my life I refused to let the dragon win.

Despite the scars, I've always thought the alternative was unacceptable.

What parts of life have surprised you the most?  Explain.

Every day's an adventure!

Why do you live where you live?

Given our ages and health issues, proximity to my son -- and his unconditional support -- is priceless.  

Humidity aside, if I knew how comforting it feels to live in the Southlands I'd have high-tailed it here sooner!

A memory from this week that made you smile?

There's little to smile about this week (just keeping it real).  So I went scrolling through the archives, back to 2010.

Neither Debbie or I really know our way around the kitchen. But when she and Carl came to visit, someone suggested making a chocolate crockpot cake.

Much hilarity ensued and -- in spite of ourselves -- it was delicious!

Insert your own random thought here.

Some of you may have seen this -- what I posted on FB a few days ago.  I needed to see this; perhaps someone else will, too.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh", she says, "Well, you're not a poor man.  You know, why don't you go online and buy an hundred envelopes and put them in the closet.?"

And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people.  And see some great looking babies.  And a fire engine goes by.  And I give them the thumbs up.  And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is.  And, and I don't know.  The moral of the story is -- we're here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that.  And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals.  You know, we love to move around.  And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.

Let's all get up and move around a bit right now ... or at least dance.

Happy Hump Day!

Hugs, Myra