Social media trends and challenges run from extremely stupid to life threateningly dangerous. Most of them fall into one of these categories: Completely made up and untrue, way overblown, or nothing new – rehashing something foolish that the occasional attention seeker did in an attempt to make headlines.
Students vandalizing schools? Well, that’s been happening for generations, predating any sort of social media by decades.…
Let’s be honest; if you’ve ever tried to change your eating habits, you’ve been derailed by food cravings.
No matter how hard you try, suddenly you’re faced with that urge to piledrive French fries or M&Ms. And all the good, healthy choices you’ve been making fly out the window.
Of course, there are some tried-and-true strategies to prevent cravings, such as mindful eating, getting enough sleep, and managing stress.…
Several months after I got really into cycling last year, my friend and cycling guru gave me a fantastic pair of cycling sunglasses.
Over time, they became scratched, and I thought I’d need to replace them. Unfortunately, the brand name had worn off, and I couldn’t find any sunglasses like them when I researched online. However, I was able to piece together some guidance on taking the scratches off my sunglasses, and now they look almost like new.…
During the height of the pandemic in 2020, much to my disappointment, our family eye doctor retired. This came as a shock since I thought she looked younger than I am. This year, my daughter increasingly felt that she needed a new glasses prescription, so I sought a new optometrist for her.
She’d been seeing the same eye doctor for several years, and some of the things we encountered at this new two-doctor practice caught me off guard.…
Don’t trash those ripe bananas that nobody wants to eat! They’re perfect for this fantastic banana bread that’s easy to whip up in a flash with ingredients you already have on hand.
The kids wolf this down in a hurry, though it does freeze well if you want to double the recipe to make two loaves and keep one for later.…
This delicious and easy-to-make chicken pot pie has become a go-to recipe for week night dinners. My younger kid enjoys helping to make it and likes eating it even more.
It’s made with standard ingredients that you can find in any grocery store and keep on hand. We haven’t had good experiences with Walmart’s own brand of refrigerated pie crust, so I’ve been buying them at Aldi or Lidl instead.…
The old saying that you never forget how to ride a bike is a myth – at least in my case. I had to re-learn how to ride from scratch.
Looking back on the past several months, I wonder how in the world I got from doubting I could learn to ride a bike again to going for 10+ mile rides.…
Based on what I’d heard from friends, I couldn’t wait to see Hamilton and signed up for a Disney+ subscription shortly after the film version of Hamilton dropped on the streaming channel. It was completely worth the price. Now I watch it over and over again and listen to the music on my Amazon Echo device, telling Alexa to play the Hamilton soundtrack from Amazon Music.…
People react to challenging times in different ways. One way to channel the frustration and uncertainty is through self-improvement.
Following are six of my favorite books for helping you understand yourself and others better while improving your mind, outlook and overall life. This list is in no particular order, and where to start depends on your own particular life situation.
If you’re going through significant life change, start with “Who Moved My Cheese?”…
The post on Facebook or other social media might start with something like this: “It’s fun to learn odd little things about people.”
Sure, it can be fun to learn and share these things, but also dangerous. If you take the bait, you become a victim of social engineering.
From a cybersecurity standpoint, social engineering is the practice of manipulating people into giving up private information.…