Sunday, February 26, 2023

Armchair traveling

Armchair traveling is akin to teleportation, which I wrote about recently.  Sit in your comfy chair — or stretch out on your bed or sofa or hammock — and pick up a book.  That's all it takes.  Read, and you are on your way to adventure or hanging out with fictional friends.  "Book" your own destination by choosing what to read.  Would you like to see Japan or Hawaii or South Africa?  A book is your ticket to explore the world or outer space or fantasy land or anywhere else you can imagine.  Do it all with the help of a book — and maybe a librarian.

Then tell us in a comment where you've traveled recently in a book.

My weird lunch yesterday

The illustration shows somebody else's lunch, since I didn't think to take a photo of mine.  I was hungry, was trying to think what sounded good (before even going into the kitchen), and came up with spinach and beets.  After taking a look inside my fridge, I added cottage cheese to my list.  Hey, it's white like that spinach salad with beets, walnuts, and goat cheese (or their feta cheese option.)

I started tasting it while standing at the kitchen counter, so Clawdia came asking for some of whatever I was eating.  I put down a smidgen of cottage cheese, but she turned up her nose at it.  I don't have croutons, and I did not think of walnuts before I gobbled it down.  My spinach was from a can, but it was still a good combination of tastes.

Joke from Reader's Digest (100 funniest jokes of all time):  Did you hear . . . about  the veterinarian who prescribes birth-control pills for dogs?  It’s part of an anti-litter campaign. — Larry Wolters (RD Issue: January 1970)

International Mother Language Day
is a United Nations initiative first celebrated in 2000.  It falls on February 21 each year. so it was this past week.  Read about it HERE.
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz
hosts The Sunday Salon.

7 comments:

Mark Baker said...

I just finished a book set in Austin, Texas, and I'm about to be in Disney World with my next book.

Glad you enjoyed your lunch even if wasn't traditional.

Harvee said...

I was in Detroit in the riotous 1980s and in contemporary Greenwich Village in NYC. Both books I wrote about for today's Sunday Salon.

Have a great reading week.

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Deb Nance at Readerbuzz said...

Oh my, I love the jokes. That was one of my favorite parts of working in an elementary school...the jokes the kids would share. We actually had a joke book week where kids would read joke books and share one with someone else. Even kids who were not strong readers really wanted to be able to read a joke.

And, yes, traveling via books. Where am I going? I'm reading about a charming girl, Jean, in England whose rich parents suddenly lost all their money (something to do with pepper) and Jean is the recipient of a broken-down horse from cruel (but perhaps not irredeemable) cousins. It's A Pony for Jean.

Helen's Book Blog said...

I must confess I am not a beets fan, but that salad looks so pretty!

Bonnie Jacobs said...

Mine wasn't that pretty, Helen.

Cindy said...

My current book takes me to Vermont!

Jinjer-The Intrepid Angeleno said...

I'm shocked that a kitty turned her nose up at cottage cheese!