This is the story that caught my attention… Every 20 minutes, from dawn to dark, the babies need food. That means catching hundreds of fruit flies a day, freezing them, crushing them with mortar and pestle, and mixing the mush with special nectar supplemented with vitamins, enzymes, and oils in precise combination. The mixture spoils…
Today’s post is inspired by a recent episode of Mike Rowe’s podcast, The Way I Heard It. If for some reason, you don’t know who Mike Rowe is, check his somewhat irreverant bio here. The Way I Heard It is a series of short mysteries for the curious mind with a short attention span. Episode…
Quick question… is the voice of the announcements in the airport a person or a computer? Hmm, perhaps you’ve never stopped to think about it before. My answer would probably be computer. I would be wrong. Ironically enough, I saw the headline for this story the night before I headed to the airport on…
One of my favorite scrapbook projects is Ali Edwards’ Day in the Life. She chooses a few days each year to highlight through this project as well as sometimes a longer, more involved life capture called Week in the Life. My first time participating in Day in the Life was 2007. I even have that…
What time is it? Cereal time! My youngest daughter, Felisa, is a dedicated cereal eater. She’s not a breakfast eater, though. No way! Offering her food before 10 a.m. should be done at your own risk. She likes to eat cereal though and it has become a regular bedtime snack, a time that is now…
On a recent trip, my son Ryan posed a question. Why do we have escalators? They’re just stairs but more expensive than stairs. How did the escalator company convince a business that it should spend money on moving stairs? Hmm. That’s a good question. So I added it to my list of things I should…
I’m pretty sure that the first thing I should NOT do on my new blog is to send people to a different site but I found this graphic to be mesmerizing and just had to share. If you run it on slow or medium, you can really notice the detail of activities that people are…