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You know how little ads sometimes pop up on Facebook that tell you about fascinating attractions that you’ll probably never end up visiting? Yeah, those. So, I saw one of those, maybe you have too, with people walking into a refrigerator, sliding into a washing machine, climbing into a fireplace....
Okay, if you are just tuning in, you might wish to read my previous blog post first. Here’s where we left off. I have the Garden Tower 2, assembled, with soil and proper vermiculture composting completed. Just need something to grow now! SEEDS OR PLANTS? I first thought I’d...
In the last several years, I’ve been working to get healthier. I’ve taken up vegetarian eating (again), and I started organic juicing. I bought an Apple watch and started paying better attention to exercise and the calories that I burn throughout the day. http://ideas1stg.wpengine.com/blog/healthiest-community-nation-begins/ And I have been tinkering with organic...
Full disclosure, I haven’t seen any of the other Ocean’s movies, until recently I didn't even know that Ocean was the family's last name, but I just saw Ocean’s 8 and it was excellent. I tend to love stories that bring unlikely groups of people together on adventures, so this...
I would certainly be considered an introvert, at least a partial introvert, so this article was encouraging. Good to know that I'm clearly the queen of the world now. Though I don't agree that isolation is a direct path to creativity, many of the points in this article by Larry...
People like villains in fiction. I know I do. They’re great characters. They’re fun to hate, or sympathize with, or try to understand, or even forgive. And you can definitely love a morally questionable character without approving of their life choices. My favorite kind of villain, is nuanced, gives you...
Honestly, I needed this article. I love books, but I am so behind on everything I want to read. I have been reading the Last Jedi novelization since March, because I always just have something else I have to do. If you, like me, are a reader who needs to...
I don’t know about you, but I love a good podcast. So, yesterday I was thinking about one of my podcasts, and I thought, “huh, why not make a list of my top five?” And then, when I decided to make the little collage that is the featured photo above,...
Stories are gateways to alternate realities?! Wild! (I knew it all along, don’t tell anyone). This interesting article from Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal:How Stories Make Us Human, talks about the science behind how our brains make fictional things seem so real. Gottschall says “When the protagonist of...
It’s been a good year for movies so far, the kind I like at least. We got Black Panther, an absolutely beautiful movie, we got Infinity War-don’t even get me started (again), and now Solo. I know there was some controversy about this one in the Star Wars fandom. I...
I have a friend who is currently applying to college. Like me, this will be her second college, and having gone through the college application process twice I know how absolutely frustrating it can be. When asked to write a personal statement she said, and I quote, “Essays are hard....
