Messing about with empathy
I wanted to do something fun with Footle and Grok in December. After several ideas floated around my mind, I settled on the following plan. Many years ago, I made advent quilts for family members. This hanging quilt had twenty-four pockets, and each pocket held an index card. The cards had the day on one…
It’s time to make some fun December goals. One of the things I want to focus on this year is Christmas music. Now that it’s after Thanksgiving, I love listening to the festive songs on the radio, but I rarely play all the Christmas CDs I have. This year I’m going to change that. I…
Happy Thanksgiving. As you prepare your stuffing and prep your turkey, before family and football, why not listen to a thought-provoking podcast? Seth Godin, an insightful person and a marketing guru, has a podcast called Akimbo. In this week’s episode, he talks about Thanksgiving traditions and the power of marketing. It was interesting to learn…
It’s World Hello Day. Unlike a lot of odd holidays, this one was created in 1973 to promote world peace. I can get behind that. All you have to do is say hello to people, friends and strangers. I don’t say hello, but I always give a nod and a smile to people that I…
I’m having two Thanksgivings this year. Since my moms-in-law are visiting us this week, we had turkey with all the fixings yesterday. We’ll do it again on Thanksgiving with friends. What I forget every year, until I do it again, is how much I like cooking a turkey. It’s simple, hands-off, and the results are…
I missed an important countdown date. As of today, there are forty-nine days left in 2019. Yowser! Not even fifty. How are your goals going? I, of course, am behind on everything but my reading goal (I knocked that one out of the park.) As I always say, the year’s not over until the ball…
Use something today. Today is a random Tuesday in November. It’s not a holiday, and it’s not the weekend when you might do something special. But since every day is special, I want you to use something today. What should you use? Serve a meal on the crystal you keep in the cabinet and only…
Today is Veteran’s Day. “Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.” – Abraham Lincoln Thank you.