Good for Pigs, Not for People

by | Feb 1, 2024 | blog

Wallowing is not a pretty word. Quite the opposite, as it evokes images of pigs rolling around in mud. It lends itself to filth. However, for many animals, wallowing is essential to their well-being. They get down in the muck and coat their bodies to stay cool and...

Learn and Do

by | Jan 10, 2024 | blog

Shout out all the people of the world who aren’t satisfied with pat answers to their burning questions. I admire those who keep digging deeper and deeper until they’ve uncovered more answers than the rest of us care to know. Like why we have to go to the...

Delicately Indestructible

by | Oct 25, 2023 | blog

I only recently learned about the existence of Prince Rupert’s Drops. Probably because my science knowledge stops at Biology, and Physics tends to vex me (something my college Physics professor would attest to). Prince Rupert Drops are strange little marvels that form...

hold your friends up

by | Oct 9, 2023 | blog

I’ve been doing an arm workout that involves holding them out at shoulder height for four hours. Not really. It only feels like four hours because of the burning in my shoulders after the first ninety seconds. It’s only seven minutes total, and they’re the longest...

failure is not an option

by | Sep 22, 2023 | blog

Yesterday my husband asked me to re-hem his suit pants. It’s an easy enough task on the sewing machine, but it wasn’t cooperating. The thread became such a tangled mess that what should have been a ten-minute repair turned into over an hour of troubleshooting, trying...