Finding fun when you think there’s no fun to find
Sir is staying on top of me, asking every morning, “Did you do your blog?” And today I had to hang my head and say…nope. Some days it’s a little harder to find itty bitty things that make you go, “Wow!” than other days. It’s a beautiful, sunny day here in Polka Dot Land. Temp’s [...]
Energize, Scotty! Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power…
Totally tickled to announce my new book is out! Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power and How We Get It just showed up on my doorstep late last week. (My next book is Titles: How to Make Them As Long As Possible and Why We Do It, coming soon.) It looks pretty slick [...]
Condiment love
Sir Buffalo Sushi, again. I don’t know about you, but, I LOVE condiments! I’ll give you some true examples: I put mayo, ketchup (even though I really don’t even like it), mustard, relish, deli mustard, and onions on my average hot dog. And on my egg sandwiches (which I make myself, from scratch) I put, [...]
Release the hounds! (Of creativity.)
So I’m looking for something in my “reading alcove” the other day. (Tangent: Our home office has a huge closet. I had nowhere to read in peace. We took the doors off the closet, stuck a chair in there and voila! Reading alcove.) Pushing papers and books around, and I spotted this title, half-buried under [...]
I tweeted Geordi
In my ongoing 2009 ambition to join the 21st century, I finally started Twittering. Tweeting? Uh, still got a lot to learn. Anyhoo, when you sign on, the Twitter Powers That Be suggest a bunch of people to stalk. Er, "follow." And there’s LeVar Burton, aka Geordi from Star Trek. Sure, I’ll follow Geordi. Click. [...]
Ideas are like naughty puppies
I was interviewing an education expert yesterday, and he commented on how sometimes you have so many ideas in your head bumping around that when you try to write them down, you can’t do it fast enough and you lose some. That happens to me all the time. Like just yesterday, when I was trying [...]
Oooh! Bonus!
Woohoo! Just found out via Foodimentary that today is National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day! YUM. They’re one of my all-time fave snackers. True confession: I like ‘em so much that if I don’t have any real ones, I’ll grab a handful of chocolate chips, mix in a handful of raisins (and sometimes some broken pretzels [...]
Winner of the Human Body book giveaway!
But first…a little story (I know you’re going to skip down to see anyway, but I’ll close my eyes and imagine you’re reading before you peek). I tried to generate random numbers using one of those online random number generators. But first I clicked it a couple times to see how it worked — and [...]
Smiley Tooth
Hi, I’m Sir Buffalo Sushi! Every Friday, I’ll write a blog article, or what ever it’s called. So… OK, let’s get on with it. When my aunt, (I won’t tell her name, so no body can black-mail her or anything), was a kid, she crashed on her bike, and slammed into a light post. She [...]
It’s all in your head
As I was showering Tuesday, celebrating St. Pat’s by using Irish Spring (manly, yes, but I like it too), I glanced at the shower door. It’s glass, etched with some funky woodish/generic pattern. Anyway, there’s this little guy in there. More like a little face, I guess. We’ve lived here for over ten years, and [...]
