Messing about with empathy
I’m not fond of reading poetry, but I like to write it. I was looking for a February poem and stumbled across a fun poetry style. The poem is called “28 Word Poem for February.” What a clever idea. Here it is. “Freezingcold winds,biting chills, andwhite snow fluffed hillsValentine’s day, oh how gay!presidents’ day is…
Footle and Grok has a new tagline. Many thanks to everyone who made suggestions. There were a lot of good ideas. However, I couldn’t seem to find one that spoke to me. I spent several hours playing with words and phrases. Then a couple of days ago, I was reading All Marketers are Liars by…
Happy Groundhog Day! Phil didn’t see his shadow!!! Go spring! It’s also Super Bowl Sunday, and if you care about one of the two teams, good luck. I thought it would be fun to share some yummy recipes for Groundhog Day. This turned out to be a terrible idea. I’m not going to show you…
Today is Saturday and the beginning of February. February is the month for love. Saturday is a day for having fun. Why not combine the two and do something you love today. Better yet, why not plan to do something you love every day this month. You even get a bonus day because of Leap…
It started with one video. I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube, but I have a few music videos that I like to watch. My favorite right now is “Into the Unknown” performed by Panic at the Disco. This is the song from Frozen II, and this cover is awesome. After that, I…
I love doing virtual races. This is the 5th summer that runDisney has provided a virtual race series. I haven’t participated in all the races because I haven’t always liked the medals (I’m all about the medals), but I’m pleased to promote this summer’s virtual runs. A virtual run is not done on a computer…
Did you hear that a mummy talked? No, this isn’t from one of the great Brendan Fraser Mummy* movies. Thanks to science, a 3,000-year-old mummy spoke for the first time since his death (one assumes.) It’s not easy to get a mummy to talk. Vocal cords are made up of soft tissue and don’t preserve…
Thanks to my kittens, I’ve been missing sleep. I think they are in their teenage years, so they cause a lot of trouble and don’t listen to a word I say. They seem to like doing this a night, when I’m trying to sleep. So, I’m a little tired, but it’s nothing that a good…
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time! I was a Girl Scout for five years and was horrible at selling cookies. I hated going door-to-door or standing outside stores asking people to buy cookies. But things have changed. While Girl Scouts still go door-to-door or business-to-business, and there are still tables set up outside of stores, a…
I’ve always liked earthquakes. That probably makes me weird, but growing up in Southern California gave me several opportunities to experience some rocking and rolling, which I loved. Of course, none of them were the Big One. Now, I don’t want millions of dollars of property damage to happen and people to die, but the…