I’m home! I had a lot of fun visiting my parents for ten days, and now I want to spend time with my hubby and my cats. Tomorrow, I’ll have new goals and new blog posts. Have a great day!
Messing about with empathy
I’m home! I had a lot of fun visiting my parents for ten days, and now I want to spend time with my hubby and my cats. Tomorrow, I’ll have new goals and new blog posts. Have a great day!
Do you ever say “The best laid plans of mice and men”? This is something I often say when things go awry. However, I never thought about where the phrase came from until it was mentioned in a book I was reading. That is when I learned the line was from a poem by Robert…
I’ve been reading a lot of nutrition labels. Some foods have a lot of carbs—especially pizza. I love pizza (Wild Mike’s frozen pepperoni is the best!!!), but since carbs are being limited in my house, I needed to find a substitute. I didn’t want to give up pizza, just carbs. Cauliflower crust pizza was an…
Happy Ampersand Day! I love punctuation and was going to write about some obscure ones. However, after an hour spent trying to find a way to type an exclamation comma, I decided that if MS Word, Unicode, and the internet didn’t want me to have this defunct symbol, I wasn’t going to write about it.…
Hubby and I didn’t want to watch Mortal Engines because the preview looked horrible. However, I have a soft spot for steampunk, so I checked it out from the library, figuring we could suffer through it. Surprise, it’s a good movie. Not a great movie, but it’s visually interesting with a solid plot. We enjoyed it.…
Happy Fight Procrastination Day and Read a Book Day. These holidays seem to be opposites. I love to procrastinate by reading a book. Usually, I tell you not to procrastinate, but this time I think the book lovers should win. Today is Saturday on Labor Day Weekend, so technically it’s a holiday. Holidays are made…
I love dinosaurs, but I like Mesozoic marine reptiles too. I also like crazy names for fossilized animals. Meet, Guizhouichthyosaurus, a fifteen-foot-long ichthyosaur. It had a body shaped like a tuna but breathed air like a dolphin. It swam in the ocean in the early Triassic, 240 million years ago. This animal was thought to…
I love to read. In the past month, I have read some of the best and worst books ever. The books that I love uplift me, while the horrible ones cause me to scream and rave like a maniac. (You should pity my hubby that had to hear my how-did-this-book-ever-get-published rant.) Luckily, I have read…
Happy Skyscraper Day. I love tall buildings, even though I haven’t visited very many. (I did make it to the observation deck of the Empire State Building in 2013.) It seems that buildings grow every year, but the current tallest structure has held the record for ten years. Below is a list of the tallest…
Poets must like autumn. I had a hard time finding a nice August poem, but September has a ton. The changing of the seasons must inspire poets to go out and write about their surroundings. There were a lot of lovely poems to choose from. William Wordsworth wrote many poems about September. I chose this…