Messing about with empathy
I just can’t eat over-ripe bananas In my house, we either have too many bananas or none. When we have too many, they move from perfect to only-good-for-baking overnight. I talked about making frozen bananas on a previous post, but this time I wanted something different. My hubby makes a fantastic chocolate chip banana bread,…
Do you look at the stars? When I ran/walked at 4 a.m. every day in July, I often hunted for the Neowise comet* in the dark sky. Unfortunately, none of the bright points of light had a tail. I knew there were planets mixed in with the stars, and I began to wonder which was…
Did you know the Dog Days of summer end tomorrow? I always thought the Dog Days of summer were all in August, but it turns out they are from July 3 to August 11. In Ancient Rome, it was a time when dogs and men went crazy with the heat, and it’s when Sirius (the…
So many books; so little time. One of my goals while run/walking 300 miles in July was to whittle down my unlistened-to audiobook list. I tend to listen to a lot of podcasts, so I get behind with my Audible book list. Being out on the road every morning for about three hours gave me…
A while back, my hubby asked how pineapples grow. My first guess was that they grew like coconuts or dates, high in a palm-like tree. I imagined a tall tree with lots of pineapples hanging off it. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I’m going to give a brief overview of pineapple growth (it’s crazy!).…
Happy Wiggle Your Toes Day. If you are somewhere where you can go barefoot, that is the best way to wiggle your toes. If you want some sole protection along with your moving digits, flip-flops are the way to go. When I was a kid, we called the shoes that we wore at the pool…
One of my favorite treats is delicious, with or without chocolate. At Disneyland, when everyone else is buying a Mickey-shaped ice-cream bar, I always choose a chocolate-covered frozen banana. So yummy. The best part about frozen bananas is how easy they are to make. I like to thickly slice a peeled banana and freeze it…
Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad! They live where it’s triple digits hot, while I live where it hardly ever hits ninety. However, for me, any temperature above 70 is hot, so I always complain about the heat when Mom calls me. In honor of my parents’ anniversary and the summer heat, I went looking for…
Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. I prefer eating chocolate chip cookie dough than the cookies themselves, but I can make a batch, enjoy some dough, and share the holiday with others by giving the cookies away. This is a perfect holiday. I like to make cookies, but I actually make bars. I press the…
Poems about August are not happy. I like to share positive and cheerful things, but poems about August tend to focus on the heat or the ending of summer, either literally or metaphorically. Poets also have a lot of say about August because the poems tend to be really long. In the end, I picked…