I went camping with my family this week. As I was driving my sister and dog back from the campsite shortly before lunchtime, we passed a beautiful sight. A bridge over the highway had been blocked off by police cars and ambulances, and a firetruck was flying a huge American flag from its ladder. The …
I’ve put this off for a while, and I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe it doesn’t entirely feel real yet. But I suppose I’ll go ahead and tell you that I’ve gotten my first full-time job as an English teacher. More specifically, I’ll be teaching sixth through tenth grade English, as well as home economics …
Anyone who knows me knows that I am quite old-fashioned. I have long hair that I usually keep braided, I’ve been known to make things such as baked beans and apple butter from scratch, and my free time is typically spent knitting or crocheting. My old-fashioned behavior doesn’t stop there, however. My goal in life …
Mercury is a pretty poisonous material. It can kill you if you’re not careful. That’s why I’m surprised anyone thought it was ever a good idea to use it as a dental filling. Anyway, my parents have been getting their mercury fillings replaced with ceramic ones recently, and all the talk of dental work has …
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I love it when you learn useful things by accident. These days, human beings are taking in information at an unprecedented rate. In fact, we do it without knowing it. Everyone knows that a fifth grader studying sentence diagrams is taking in new information, but adults do the exact same thing when they scroll through …