Three Thoughts for Thursday

Katie Wetherbee, with whom I co-authored Every Child Welcome, is absolutely hilarious as her 5 Facts for Friday blog posts show. You can get a chuckle every Friday by becoming her friend on Facebook where she goes by Katie Livingston Wetherbee.
You can die on Mars. Or you can live in South Dakota is the state’s new tourism slogan. Having lived in the remotest part of that great state for 7 years, I applaud the tourism board’s honesty. Still, they might want to tinker with the wording…or even the entire campaign concept…in the near future.
As a third grader, I heard Chuck Mertes, a sixth grader working on a science project with my big sister, say that in millions of years the Earth would crash into the sun and burn up. That tidbit gave me nightmares for weeks. But apparently, my childhood fear has been quite literally laid to rest as I didn’t lose a minute’s sleep when NASA allowed a satellite to crash into Mercury last week. Sometimes, growing older is a good thing.