DebR is the Wednesday guest blogger at Create a Connection and I'm playing along. This week, she tasks us thusly: Imagine you're going to organize a dinner party for yourself and seven guests. You can invite anyone who ever lived, whether they're world-famous or someone whose name only you would recognize.

1. Guest one must be someone who is/was creative with words - a novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, journalist, etc. Who would you invite? Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain! Think of the entertaining, lively conversation that would flow!

2. Guest two must be someone who is/was creative with images - a painter, photographer, sculptor, fabric artist, collage artist, etc. Who would you invite? This is an easy question for me...I'd invite the photographer Joel Meyerowitz. He does the most amazing things with light and I'd love to pick his brain.

3. Guest three must be someone who is/was a performer - an actor, singer, musician, comedian, acrobat, etc. Who would you invite? Oh poo, just one? I think I'd have to say Ruth Gordon. She was an phenomenal actress, strong willed and such a character.

4. Guest four must be someone who is charting/charted new territory - either in the physical sense, like an explorer, adventurer, or astronaut, or someone like a groundbreaking scientist or inventor. Who would you invite? Leonardo da Vinci. The list of things he created or invented, the ideas he came up with were just mind boggling and way ahead of his time.

5. Guest five must be someone who is/was a leader of other people - perhaps in the area of politics, like the literal leader of a country, or perhaps a leader in the area of religion, military, business, or even a great philosopher or teacher, or an inspiring athlete. Who would you invite? Malcolm X. He was someone who changed so much over the course of his life...he could have done wonderful things!

6. Guest six must be someone from any field who you believe is/was underrated and under-appreciated by most people, but whom you admire. Who would you invite? Um...of course, that would be Professor Snape (ok, technically, he's not a REAL person...but...Alan Rickman could come dressed as Snape!)

7. Guest seven is a wild card - your choice! Is there someone you'd like to invite who didn't seem to quite fit into any category, or was there a category where you'd have really liked to invite two different people? Then this is your chance to add the person you missed to the table. Who would you invite? Robert Plant! That way we could end up "sitting 'round singing songs 'til the night turns into day".

Bonus: Uh Oh! The dinner party is just about to end, all your guests are about to disappear, and you realize that you've forgotten to ask one important question of one of your guests. You just barely have time to squeeze in that last question, so quick! - what was the question and who did you ask? I'd ask Robert Plant what he thought about the LOTR trilogy. Simple, I know...but hey!

An interesting mix!

......I want to know what the dinner will be?

....because Im all about the food!

Cool guest list! I'm especially intrigued that the thought of getting Mark Twain and Leonardo in the same room!