Joyce From This Side of the Pond hosts a weekly Wednesday Hodgepodge of questions for fun and for getting to know each other.

Here are the questions for this week:

1. How many times in your life have you moved house?

In my adult life, six. In my childhood, I’m not sure but it was a LOT — seven times come to mind off the top of my head, not including going to college, but I’m sure there were more. .

2. What subject would you study if you had a year to devote to it?

Writing.

3. What in this world breaks your heart?

Abuse.

4. What is one item that symbolizes the times in which we live? Why?

Probably cell phones. I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t have one, and many have only their cell phones and no land lines. As they got more advanced they set off the texting phenomenon and revolutionized communications.

5. Share a favorite bumper sticker or t-shirt slogan.

“Don’t believe everything you think.”

6. How do you like your spaghetti?

We use ground turkey rather than ground beef (no meatballs) and prefer very skinny spaghetti, preferably angel hair, and homemade spaghetti sauce.

7. What is one piece of advice you would give a recent, or soon to be recent, graduate?

Hmm. I’d have to think about that for a while. The verse I usually put on graduation cards is Psalm 16:11: “Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” So I think I’d say, whatever you do, keep your relationship with the Lord first — not just routines and rituals, but a living relationship that begins with being born again and needs to be nurtured like any other relationship by time spent together and communication.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Does anyone know what kind of plant this is?

Here’s a closer look:

I’m not sure if it it was planted there on purpose or if it is a weed. I’m thinking of taking it out anyway — if I were going to have something viny there I’d rather have some type of pretty ivy or Morning Glory.