by jphilo | Nov 7, 2013 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
- The way things are constantly moved around at Costo, shopping there is akin to shooting at a moving target. Just one more reason I regret not having tried harder during the archery unit during sophomore gym class.
- Did you hear cocoa prices will go up around Easter because the weather played havoc with the African crop? Wise parents will purchase discounted Christmas candy after the holiday, and then color the candy with pastel markers before hiding in the freezer until Easter. The kids will never know the difference!
- Carol Burnett received the Mark Twain Medal for Humor on October 20, 2013. In their report about the honor, NPR played a clip from their 2010 interview with Burnett, in which she was asked where her innocent style of comedy came from. She said, I think my attitude was nurtured by seeing so many movies in the 1940s, you know, where there was nothing cynical about anything. The bad guys got it. The good guys won. Everything was hopeful. So when I came to New York on my own, I never thought that good things wouldn’t happen. Now, maybe today, if that situation were the same, I might not have been that confident. But in those days, it was like, yeah, let’s go try. Let’s do it. And I never took anything personally when I didn’t get the job. What I always thought was, well, it’s not my turn. That’s her turn. My turn will come. Carol Burnett, your well-deserved turn has finally come. Thanks for so many years of laughter!
Are you a Carol Burnett fan too? How does she make you laugh? Leave a comment.
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by jphilo | Oct 31, 2013 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
It may be Halloween. It’s not my favorite holiday, so this week’s thoughts are about books. They are some of my favorite things.
- A book lover’s definition of bliss: Sue Grafton’s W Is for Wasted waiting on the nightstand.
- Latest great mystery find: The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olson. Scandinavian flavor like The Girl With… series, but the characters are more complex and interesting. And the plot is fantastic.
- Latest great toddler board book find: Our one-year-old grandson is a big fan of Llama Llama, Red Pajama. Just wait till he hears Llama Llama Zippity-Zoom. It totally rocks!
What are you best book finds lately? Leave a comment.
by jphilo | Oct 24, 2013 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
- I hope the parents of the beleaguered troubleshooters working on the Obamacare websites are sending them homemade cookies (made with chocolate chips, not computer chips) to raise their spirits.
- No matter how accommodating hotels try to be by offering pillow menus, the mere thought of them makes my mouth feel like it’s full of feathers.
- My favorite fall meal, at least this week, is pork steak and apples. Yours?
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by jphilo | Oct 22, 2013 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
10. Dusting makes a person’s hands feel,,,dusty. Yuck!
9. No one wears white gloves anymore, so why bother?
8. Dusting pollutes the environment which can lead to breathing problems. How could a person get up in the morning knowing he’d contributed to health issues that could have been avoided by simple behavioral changes?
7. For those who choose a back to nature decorating theme, the dust fits right in.
6. Once the dust is gone, there’s no way to know how to arrange knick knacks on the dresser again.
5. Parents teach children to dust so they learn the monotony of drudge work and decide they should go to college. Once they learn that lesson, dusting serves no purpose.
4. Thick dust is an excellent medium for tactile learners to practice spelling words. Destroying a teachable moment is a terrible thing.
3. Life is too short to spend painstakingly coating a piece of cloth with dust. What warped mind thought the idea up, anyway?
2. If a string of neighborhood cat burglaries follows close on the heels of a dusting extravaganza, the duster could be considered a suspect, what with wiping away fingerprints and all that.
1. Dusting could get in trouble with environmentalists, since it disturbs the natural environment of dust mites.
What’s your best reason to eliminate dusting? Leave a comment.
by jphilo | Oct 17, 2013 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
- The government shutdown has been averted for the time being. But those who taught any member of the legislative or executive branch in elementary school can’t take it easy yet. Now’s the time to call those former students and give them an earful about how to work nicely with others.
- Personal experience has taught me that the temperature of Kodiak, Alaska on July 5 is the same as the temperature in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 17. Now I have a burning desire to personally discover if the same is true of the temperature in Hawaii in January.
- A writer’s life doesn’t get much better than breakfast with a co-author, lunch with an agent, and an afternoon meeting with the publisher of a new book. As my co-author says…Doesn’t it feel grown up to say that?
by jphilo | Oct 10, 2013 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
- If I were president of the world, I would have fourth grade teachers take the U.S. President and members of Congress into the hall to sit together without recess until they figured out how to fix the mess they’ve made.
- If I were president of the world, I would ban football commentators, natural disasters, and hiccups.
- If I were president of the world, I would invent a new word. Cat-ouflage. See above photo for definition.
