My original WATWB post was drafted and ready to go early this month, for a change—and then I found out somewhere that Ireland was due to...

Photo by  Berlian Khatulistiwa  ( Unsplash ). Typography by Guilie Castillo. It's been a hard couple of months, and it hasn't b...

I'm joining Debbie's and Emily's 30 Odd Questions   blog hop! Responses in italics . What did you want to be when ...

The blog is turning 5!   Back on June 1st, 2011, when the first post went up on Quiet Laughter, I had no clue what blogging was, or how...

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." ~ Seneca ( Seneca , yes. Not Semisonic.) Note to BoTB-ers: To s...

Even if this battle wasn't too popular (only 13 votes), it was still very  close. Karen Souza: 6 Dixie Mary Stephen John ...

Love... Even the word sounds like a sigh. But is it a sigh of contentment—or of regret? If you've found it, the world shines in colors ...

Happy Monday, and bon siman!   (That's 'happy week' in Papiamentu , the language of Curaçao—and if you ever do come to Curaçao...

On a bookshelf behind my desk, out of sight unless you know where to look, sits a toy koala bear. He's old, dusty, and faded. The hair o...

What's April going to be all about here on Quiet Laughter ? I agonized over that. I had my Curaçao theme from last year all prepped an...

It's ongoing, and it's endless: the debate over whether To Theme or Not To Theme . Every year, as soon as the A-to-Z Blogging Cha...

Can you feel it? Excitement is making the blogosphere crackle. The A-to-Z April Blogging Challenge list opened last week. Are you in? Oh, I...

This was hard . Much, much harder than I thought. Number 1 of the Kuantan blog's Top 20 Challenge : July 2013, Amsterdam Ther...

The next-best of 2013 today, on the Kuantan Blog's Top 20 Challenge : August, 2013 I take my dogs (I have seven, all rescues) t...

This is the final stretch of the Kuantan Blog's Top 20 Challenge . I give you #3: July 2013, Amsterdam Close-up of ship ropes...

Today's edition of the Kuantan Blog's Top 20 Challenge : August 2013, Curaçao Displays of wine at a local wine store. Dur...

And we come to the top five of the Kuantan Blog's Top 20 Challenge ! This is the worst of the best: July 2013, Holland. A typ...

Today's edition of the Kuantan Blog's Top 20 Challenge : April 2013, Perú A glimpse into a courtyard at the Convent of Sa...

Today's edition of the Kuantan Blog's Top 20 Challenge : #7. April 2013, Perú. The Museo Larco in the Peruvian capital city,...

Welcome to the last week of the Kuantan Blog's Top 20 Challenge ! Today's photo is one of my all-time favorites. April 2013, ...