Messing about with empathy
I was supposed to run a half marathon today. As I explained last Saturday, my Grand Teton and Yellowstone races were canceled. I deferred them to 2021. In honor of my canceled run, I thought I would share some Yellowstone facts. Entire books are written about this fascinating park, so I am just going to…
I believe science teachers should blow something up in their classrooms every day (or online if the class can’t meet.) I have taken more boring classes than I can remember. If there had been more than notes on a whiteboard (or worse, a chalkboard), I might have remembered more. Of course, I went to school…
I need help. I want to do something that I think is simple but apparently is not. I have 12-inch by 12-inch scrapbooks (one is Creative Memories, and one is an old post-style.) I want to scan each page of the album and then create a Shutterfly digital album with the jpegs. Simple, right? Not…
I wrote a post to go out yesterday. I really did. You just got it today. When I hit the publish button on the app, something strange happened. It backdated and posted on May 24. However, it never went into my Mailchimp send-out list (possibly because Mailchimp thought I had published it in May), so…
You can’t have too many bookmarks. While I don’t believe that dog-earing books is the crime of the century, I do like bookmarks. I have a large collection and often add to it. So when I found this video for making Harry Potter house-themed bookmarks, I had to try it out. This is truly an…
I love big numbers. The bigger the better. Nine zeros after a number? Great! Fifteen? Even better. How about a hundred? Bring it on. If you like big numbers too, or if you want to understand how to understand these sorts of numbers, check out this video* by Neil deGrasse Tyson. With the help of…
The summer reading program at our library has started. I love that it is online and that adults are welcome to participate. Points are earned by doing various tasks. One is to learn five words. I found a website with a fun list of words and will work through it. To earn this point, I…
I was supposed to be running a half marathon today. It was going to happen outside Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. I had signed up to run a 5k yesterday also. Next week, I had planned to do a 5k in Yellowstone on Friday with another half marathon the day after, too. It’s called…
I’m working on a couple of reading goals. One item on my summer (sand)bucket list is to re-read a favorite book. The first book I ever read to my now husband (at the time we were only dating) was James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. It is my favorite book, so I chose…
I promise to keep this positive because that is Footle and Grok’s mandate. Whenever I feel crushed by world events, I listen to music. For some reason, this time, it had not been helping. I had been playing upbeat, happy, inspiring music, thinking it would lift me up, but it didn’t. So this morning, I…