Messing about with empathy
Today I returned to Returning the Favor. I wrote in a past post about this fantastic Facebook show where Mike Rowe gives supplies, money, and support to normal people around the country who are doing something special for their community. This show has been around for several years, and I never missed an episode. But 2020…
“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” Edgar Allan Poe Every October, I read “The Masque of the Red Death” out loud to my hubby by candlelight. It is my favorite Edgar Allan Poe story (many others are a close second.) As I read it this year, I couldn’t help but…
I hope we all surprise ourselves in good ways.
Last Friday, we got lost. Hubby wanted to go for a drive, but he didn’t expect gravel roads, dead-end signs, and a three-hour tour. I was in the car with him, but I have no idea where we went. All I know is he kept trying to go south, but the few signs we saw…
I tend to bake certain items at certain times of the year. I make Irish soda bread in March, chocolate fudge in December, and pumpkin muffins in October. This year, I wanted to make pumpkin scones instead of muffins, so I searched for a recipe. My favorite recipe website is Taste of Home (I got the magazine…
Happy Dictionary Day! Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758. He wrote the first American dictionary and included many Americanized words like “color” instead of “colour” and “center” instead of “centre.” He believed in simplifying the language, as did many founding fathers. While Webster wrote the first American dictionary, the idea of word lists…
After watching Knives Out, I had an urge to watch the 2017 version of Murder on the Orient Express (MOTOE.) I had seen this movie once and vaguely remembered liking it. Knives Out has a similar feel, although more tongue-in-cheek, so I thought I might like MOTOE even more the second time. I was right.…
I reached 900 miles today, so needless to say; I’ve been running and walking a lot. It’s a beautiful time to walk around my hometown with many trees turning red, yellow, and orange. Today, as I admired the fall colors, I wondered why they change. I had a vague notion that it had something to…
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion,” Henry David Thoreau
I’ve been converting a scrapbook made in the 1980s into a digital album. There are report cards, awards, birthday cards, homework pages, and school photos. The official documents have dates, but many other items do not. Sigh. I can guess some items’ dates because they are between two dated items, but it’s not always possible.…