Messing about with empathy
Apologies to dog lovers. Just as I was about to type this, Chewie jumped on my lap. Since he weighs twenty-three pounds, he displaced everything, including my laptop. To appease him, I promised I’d find some good cat quotes. That research turned out to be entertaining for me too. I hope you enjoy these quotes…
There are too many awesome videos out there. I promise not to share them all but, this one that I saw today is too good not to share. I learned about Vsauce from watching Veritasium. The Vsauce videos tend to be longer, but this one is short and has a lot of amazing science. About…
Happy Old Rocks Day. This is one of my favorite holidays. In the past, I have talked about books and facts about rocks and geology. Today I want to share some geology jokes. Most rock jokes are dumb, even by my standards. When I was a geology student at Humboldt State University, our geology club…
I’m easily influenced by YouTube videos. It’s a good thing I don’t watch too many, or else I might do crazy things. Instead, I focus on videos that match my goals. One of my goals is to super-declutter my house in 2021. Reading decluttering books helps me work on this goal, but books can take…
Happy National Bird Day. Whenever I think of birds, I think of dinosaurs, because as we all know, birds are dinosaurs. However, what came to my mind today was a question often asked by paleontologists. Why did avian dinosaurs survive the K-Pg extinction (the one with the asteroid) while non-avian dinosaurs did not? (My actual…
I love memes. I like funny ones, snarky ones, and happy ones. I especially love inspirational ones. Each year I go through all the memes I have saved and print out some to motivate me in the new year. I thought you might find some motivation from them, too, so I’m sharing some here. I’ve…
Well, 2020 didn’t end with thousands of people in Times Square or large parties with lots of kissing at midnight, but there were still some amazing celebrations. I watched Midway and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and was asleep by 11 p.m. On New Year’s Day, we visited the same friends we’d had Christmas with.…
William Carlos Williams is one of my favorite poets, and that list is pretty short. I read a picture book about his life that was fascinating. While he wrote poems that were hundreds of pages long, he mastered short, descriptive poems called imagism. This poem about January is a good example of his short style.…
I love to declutter my email and social media at the start of the year. It’s easy to do while watching TV, and I notice the difference immediately. I end up with a lot of junk email thanks to giving stores my email address and subscribing to newsletters for various reasons. Most of the time,…
Happy end of 2020! My last hurrah of the year is dealing with annoying website issues, but I’m smart enough to get my blog out no matter what happens. Even 2020 can’t stop me. I hope you all have a wonderful New Year’s Eve. Take some time to remember all the good that happened this…