Connect the D.O.T.S.

When I was a kid, I used to love passing the time with books of connect the dots images/ I would take my pencil, start at #1 and draw a line to #2, #3 and so on, in numerical order, until I run out of numbers, revealing a picture of a smiling dinosaur. If I was so...

What Luck?

I read an article about the phrase, “you’re welcome,” the latest word that means the opposite of its original usage, in the vein of bad-means-good and sick-means-great. You’re welcome is/was used as a courtesy response to and an acknowledgement of a thank you. Now,...

Un-Pause It!

      I spend a good deal of time taxiing my kids around Boulder County, as I’m sure you can relate to. To keep the backseat squabbles in check, I decided to play the girls an audiobook on the way to school. Audible.com gave me a free gift of Anne...

Art Appreciation

Art Appreciation was the class in school that everyone took for that “easy A” to pump up their GPA. How hard it is to appreciate art, right? It couldn’t be harder than a chemistry class. What a terrible mistake to dismiss great art like that. My good...