Lighting a Fire!
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” -William Butler Yeats, poet This is how I feel about my new blog – like a fire has been lit. I am so happy when I stumble across a new tidbit or story. So excited. So fun!
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Happy National Cereal Day!
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…
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Escalators
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…
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A Day in the Life graphic
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…
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What’s in a name?
Hello and welcome! Just a quick note to share my vision for this blog. As mentioned on my welcome page, I’ve always been fascinated by those little behind-the-scenes glimpses and tidbits of trivia about the world – how things work, where common phrases come from, what it’s like to work in a certain profession, the…
