Fun & Humor
Do You Have Chocolate on the Brain?
You’re not alone. One billion people eat chocolate every day. The average American gobbles up to 15 pounds a year or the equivalent of a thanksgiving turkey. The U.S. chocolate industry is worth about $25 billion or roughly the same as the price tag for a southern border wall. I’d rather eat chocolate then fences. What would life be like wi...Read More
These super star musicians are retiring this year
There’s a surprising trend in the music industry in 2018: some of the world’s most legendary musicians are calling it quits. In their late 60s to late 70s, these musicians are feeling the effects of a slowing body and the pull of the families they so often leave behind while on tour. To commemorate their retirement, all are giving one last hurrah. ...Read More
10 Incredible Things That Kids Growing Up Today Won’t Know
10 Incredible Things That Kids Growing Up Today Won’t Know..remember when you made a call from a landline, remember being chained to the phone for an hour because of that cord?
What Is Your Mental Age? (Quick Test)
For millions of people around the world, their biological and their emotional age are two completely different things. Here is an easy but very accurate test that will determine your mental age.
Do Not Disturb!
Most nights I have a terrible time falling asleep. My mind is never fully at rest. I turn on my ceiling fan…winter and summer…punch my pillow to mold it into my neck, pull up my quilt, get into position and close my eyes. It’s then I remember I have to phone Cynthia with directions to the restaurant we’re meeting at on Wednesday, work on a Letter o...Read More
10 Hours
10 Hours – The total length of time I spent in the Emergency Room at Newton Memorial Hospital. Four of those hours I sat in the outer waiting room where my complaint of being unable to breath was accepted as trivial compared to that of the man who walked in carrying his finger in a jar. Three of those hours were spent on my back, on what the ...Read More
Where Do I Buy It? NOW!
My neighbor yelled at me because I put the garbage out two hours early. The guy behind me in a shiny black Dodge Ram honked at me because I stopped at a stop sign. The woman next in line in the supermarket growled because I was too slow digging out my credit card. Disgraced. Merriam-Webster defines disgraced as a source of shame – losing favor or s...Read More
Chew on This . . . Gently
Remember the good old days of Bazooka bubble gum and corn-on-the-cob? When the tooth fairy liked you? Today many of our 32 permanent choppers have aged into dazzling fake news called crowns, implants, veneers, and bridges. They have fighting names like wisdom (if you still have any), incisors, and canines. We brush, floss, and whiten our treasured ...Read More
Smile! It’s a Good Hair Day.
Flow it, show it Long as God can grow it My hair -Refrain from “Hair” Remember the good old days of Hair and The Age of Aquarius? When hair was an act of rebellion? Some things never change. Hair (or lack of it) helps shape who we are. 13th century Lady Godiva rode her horse through the streets of Coventry, dressed only in her long hair. R...Read More
How Many Words Does It Take?
There are a lot of words in our lives. The Oxford English Dictionary lists 171,476 words in current use, not including 50,000 words labeled obsolete, technical, regional, new, and invented by people like The Orange Man in the White House. Think covfefe and braggadocious. The rest of us own fewer words. The average English-speaking adult kn...Read More