Messing about with empathy
We live in a remarkable time. The Moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year. That means that in 600 million years, there won’t be any more solar eclipses. What a bummer. This may seem unimportant since humans won’t probably be around in 600 million years. But it…
How well are you meeting your February goals? You have a week left in the month. Seven days can go by so fast. Why not add a little time to your project? Five minutes can be enough. If you did something five minutes longer each day this week, you would have worked a half-hour more…
Today is George Washington’s Birthday. There are a ton of quotes from our first president, but it was hard to find universal thoughts. Most of his words were about war, government, foreign powers, and God. This makes sense, but those quotes belong in other blogs. I did find a few that were useful in our…
Anyone who knows me knows that “Goodnight Moon” is my least favorite book ever. I can suggest a dozen similar books that are much better. However, I will listen to this boring story over and over when LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow fame reads it to a sleepy Neil deGrasse Tyson. This just goes to…
Today is Cherry Pie Day. At first, this seemed odd to me, but then I remembered that George Washington may or may not have cut down a cherry tree, and his birthday is Saturday, so it makes sense that Cherry Pie Day would be in February. I’m not a huge pie fan and prefer the…
I checked out one of my favorite shows from the library today. I never saw Treehouse Masters when it first aired on Animal Planet, but I love binge-watching the DVDs. I would love to live in a treehouse and would settle for staying at a treehouse hotel someday. However, my hubby dreams of living underground,…
I watched both Jurassic World movies last weekend, and I have dinosaurs on the brain (well, that’s pretty normal for me.) I was looking up some dinosaur facts and discovered a dinosaur I hadn’t heard of. It’s a small dinosaur with a big name. Micropachycephalosaurus is the longest dinosaur name. It means “small, thick-headed lizard.”…
Happy President’s Day! Today used to celebrate just George Washington. Now it honors all our presidents. On my podcast today, I talk about the history of this holiday. I thought it would be fun on the blog to list some campaign slogans from various presidential campaigns. Everyone knows “Make America Great Again,” but do you…
There are fourteen days left in February. Two weeks an ideal length of time. It’s long enough to complete a goal, but short enough to keep your momentum going. Why not pick a goal or project that you can finish in two weeks, and get started today. Break it into fourteen chunks and put it…
Today only happens once every four years (with exceptions.) Well, every February has a day 15, but only in leap years is the 15th the middle of the month, and thus the Ides of February. The funny thing is, though the Ides of the month is the middle day, the 15th of most months is…