Messing about with empathy
I finished my Story A Day in May project. One of the prompts I followed was to write a story where each sentence starts with a letter of the alphabet in order. So the first sentence begins with A, and the second sentence begins with B, all the way to Z. This is called an…
June is a popular month. I say this because when I went looking for June poems, I had immense success. There were so many that I had a hard time picking just one, so I chose two. One is actually a proverb. “Kind hearts are the gardens; kind thoughts are the roots; kind words are…
Don’t argue with me. Summer is here!!! Even if it officially starts on the solstice, June, July, and August are the summer months. We are living in a weird world right now, and it is easy for each day to become a repeat of the one before it. Don’t let your summer slip away in…
There are now FIVE humans in space. That is still not a number to get excited about, but it was terrific to watch yesterday’s successful launch of the Crew Dragon Demo-2. Everything was a go, including the weather. There were cameras everywhere, probably in case something went wrong, but it meant that the average citizen,…
I love Mint Juleps. This might seem odd since I don’t drink alcohol. Let me explain. When I was a kid, I would go to Disneyland and buy a Mint Julep and a fritter from a window in New Orleans Square before watching Fantasmic on the edge of the Rivers of America. Obviously, this drink…
Have you ever heard of a John Wayne casserole? I had not, but I was reading a book (it was a non-fiction science book), and the author mentioned a John Wayne casserole. I like John Wayne movies but didn’t know what this dish was. Well, Google provided more information than I could have imagined. Click…
The Falcon 9 Crew Dragon launch yesterday had to be canceled because of the weather. I watched the launch coverage for hours, and at T-17 minutes, they called it off. The weather might have been good enough ten minutes after the launch window (which was instantaneous) but not at T-0. So, NASA and SpaceX (and…
Today is a red-letter day. For the first time since 2011, American astronauts are going to launch onboard an American spaceship. How exciting!!! The SpaceX Demo-2 mission will launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT. Two veteran NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will ride the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. If…
It’s time for another short story. The prompt for this one had to do with a villain trying to escape while doing community service and how he could do that when everyone had superpowers. I dropped the community service part and had fun with a villain escaping from prison. You might notice that I don’t…
Happy Towel Day! May 25 honors the works and life of Douglas Adams, the author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of the best books ever written. In honor of the day, I’m providing some quotes from the Hitchiker’s Series. I could have listed many more, but I tried to pick my absolute…