Messing about with empathy
The full quote is, “I’ll bring the dip if you bring the Dostoevsky.” It is from one of my favorite childhood films, Condorman, a fun and crazy movie about a cartoonist who becomes a spy. Michael Crawford (before he was the Phantom of the Opera) is in it. Today is Chips and Dip Day, so…
Do you like game shows? I watched a neat documentary about the past, present, and future of game shows called Game Changers (hosted by Alex Trebek.) I’ve been watching game shows all my life, and I would still drop everything to watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!. It was fun learning about all the different…
I checked out one of my favorite shows from the library today. I never saw Treehouse Masters when it first aired on Animal Planet, but I love binge-watching the DVDs. I would love to live in a treehouse and would settle for staying at a treehouse hotel someday. However, my hubby dreams of living underground,…
I’m always looking for topics to write about. Writing a different post every day can sometimes be difficult. However, I like a challenge, so I follow unusual Facebook pages and receive a lot of e-newsletters on varying subjects to keep my curiosity fed. Today I stumbled upon a question worthy of consideration, and that made…
Blue is the most popular color in the world. Blue is my favorite color. What is yours?
I need your input. I’ve been writing the Footle and Grok blog every day since August 2017, and last December, I started the Footle and Grok podcast. For the last 2 1/2 years, the tagline for all things Footle and Grok as been “Messing about with empathy.” This tagline is taken from the definitions of…
Technology often confounds me. As a few of you have noticed, you couldn’t leave a comment on this blog. (Of course, you could always leave a message on the Facebook page.) This glitch wasn’t intentional, but I hadn’t learned how to fix it. Thanks to my hubby and reader Jim, I finally learned what the…
When you do take down the Christmas decorations? When I was growing up, we removed the decorations on New Year’s Day. Dad would be home to help with the tree and outdoor lights. We’d put away all the ornaments while watching the Rose Parade, then Dad would haul out the tree while Mom vacuumed up…
There are a lot of debates when it comes to Christmas cards. Photo cards vs. traditional cards. Christmas letter vs. handwritten note. Mailed cards vs. ecards. But I’ve never seen anyone discuss handwriting the address on the envelope vs. printing labels. I’ve been sending cards out for about twenty-four years. For all those years, I…
My office is a mess. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but I’m in the middle of finishing gifts, wrapping gifts, shipping gifts, occupying cats, hiding hubby’s papers from the cats, and reading a huge stack of books. All these projects are out in the open, so my office is a mess.…