If you are like me, when you plan out your day, what you will do and where you will go, you also plan out what clothes you will wear. You get fully and appropriately dressed for what you are doing and where you are going. My work attire is typically khakis or jeans, colorful socks …
We all have our default “first thing” morning routine once the alarm clock awakens us. Maybe you push the snooze button, hoping to catch nine more minutes of shut eye. Or you might turn on the television to watch the morning news or catch last night’s sports scores on ESPN. Maybe you crawl out of …
We are all taught to say thank you to someone after they do something for us. Those two little words “thank you” reflect a polite expression of gratitude, or when used as “no thank you,” usually imply a polite refusal. Regardless of the context, we say thank you to someone after the fact. When is …
The dawn of a new year is just days away. For some of you reading this, maybe 2023 has not been kind to you, and you almost wish this year never happened. For others of you, this year has been good, and you want it to never end. And for still others, you wonder where …
I do not know about you, but for me, the events of 2023 have left me exhausted. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Economic uncertainty. The divisive battles over hot topic items such as abortion and gun rights. Extreme weather. The mental health crisis. The continual drip drip drip of Covid, RSV, flu. In …
The deepest part of the ocean is the called the Challenger Deep. It is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which is southwest of the United States territorial island of Guam. This trench is approximately 36,000 feet deep, or in other words, slightly less than seven miles, …