What a wonderful idea!

Ew. Don't care for sweet & salty together. Nor Spam for that matter.

Tell me that last one can't be real--a roller coaster that actually jumps across space like that? I'm vomiting just thinking about it!

Good nonfiction books to read related to this topic: "My Lobotomy" a memoir by Howard Dully, and "Patient HM" by Luke Dittrich (about his grandfather, a surgeon).

On the flip side: I use this activity with my teachers to illustrate how quickly we identify words as skilled adult readers. When you ask people to NOT read but identify the color, it's amazing how slow they can get while doing that task--their reading actually interferes with the color identification. It's so hard to "not read" when you're a skilled reader [e.g., try NOT to read an "EXIT" sign!] that we forget what it's like for our beginning readers who haven't cracked the code yet. We want our young students to build that automaticity so they are not decoding every word. It's a fun way to get teachers to understand how skilled they are themselves because it's become so automatic with years of practice.

Wow! These are great! I love to do embroidery and have never seen designs like this.

I dearly love this video.

This made me crack up: "Even if my house is destroyed, even if I go into bankruptcyIf the cat is happy, there’s no problemSacrifices for love know no limit"

I love her books! One of my favorites when I was growing up.

I found this story historically fascinating and horrifying. As a special education teacher, I've been interested in this "hidden history" of how people with cognitive and other disabilities were treated through the decades. It may astonish you to know that as recently as a few years ago, North Carolina was paying reparations to people who had been sterilized: https://ncadmin.nc.gov/about-doa/special-programs/welcome-office-justice-sterilization-victimsSo this isn't a story from long, long ago!

Thank goodness no one was hurt!

I want kittens at my office!!

This is lovely. I remember when my mom was in assisted living, all she wanted was an over-easy egg that she could dip her toast into. She didn't care for scrambled eggs, which were all they served (probably for some good reason). It made me so happy to cook her over-easy eggs whenever I could! I miss her so much . . . wish I could cook her an egg right now.

Or you can stop playing games or hoping your finance is a mind reader and simply communicate with each other. It's an idea . . .