The middle of winter is my least favorite time of year. Groundhog’s Day is supposed to indicate if we’ll have an early spring, but I am a skeptic. Then Lent begins. There’s a bright spot for Valentine’s Day, but it only lasts for 24 hours. While the winter feels a little bland and boring to me, I have found a partial solution to my case of winter blahs…
For 50 years Amelia Bedelia has entertained and educated us with her quirky ways by taking everything literally. The results are hilarious and chaotic. Who but Amelia makes sponge cake with a real sponge; draws the drapes with pencil and paper; convinces a train conductor to lead an orchestra; dresses a chicken in overalls; and when driving toward a fork in the road, looks for a spoon?
Looking Back, Looking Forward to Celebrate and Honor
This month is a time for reflection, recognition, and empowerment. It’s a time to honor the known and unknown heroes who endured and overcame insurmountable odds to get us where we are now. In February, we celebrate the men, women, and children who persisted through unfathomable struggles, but we do so as if it is history only come and gone. It is not merely history we celebrate but culture and progress, as well.
Bow Ties, A Blue Police Phone Box, and a Silly Man Named The Doctor
Time is a lot like falling backwards. We can see the past like we’re looking forward at it, but the future is rushing towards us with our backs turned—as if we’ve stepped backwards off of a diving board. The air rushes past us as we fall faster towards the water. We can see the sky above us and our past as we fall further away from it. The water’s surface, which we fall towards, rises closer and closer even though we know not how far away the surface truly is.
Printers. We love them. We hate them. It seems that there is no in-between. One minute it works, and the other, we’re walking into a field with our office buddies to reenact a scene from Office Space. Whatever your qualm with printers may be, there’s something new on the rise. You’ve probably heard of it, but they’re the next big thing—3-D printers. That’s right, 3-D. Nothing is cool unless it’s 3-D, even printers.
Not every weekend gets to be filled with an adventure in the KC Weddings Bridal Spectacular, like this last weekend was for me. My fiancé and I are still in the early stages of planning; we have over a year before the special day on Halloween 2014. But, it’s never too early to get started on things, right? Right.
You know that awkward moment when you’re not sure whether you finally have free time or you’re just forgetting something? I’ve hit that, but I know I don’t have a thing left to do. Four years ago, I started my journey into University life, and now I’m a fully equipped English writing major with a Philosophy minor.
I happened upon a treasure in the Library the other day. I’m sure you’re not surprised, or maybe you’re saying something like, "Sure, but isn’t treasure in the eye of the beholder?" And I would have to respond by saying, "Probably, but this one you really all might find great!"
For Christmas, I gave my sister a Kindle Fire (thank you Cyber Monday sale!), something she had talked about buying for over a year. She teaches first and second grade at Rural Center Elementary—a small school south of Abilene, KS. Her busy schedule does not always allow her to get to the library unless she is visiting our parents in Hays, KS. So as excited as she was to have a Kindle Fire, she was even more excited to learn that both the Hays and Abilene Public Libraries are part of the Sunflower eLibrary, which is powered by OverDrive.
On New Year’s Eve 1972, Pittsburg Pirates star Roberto Clemente boarded a DC-7 aircraft in Puerto Rico filled with food, clothing, and medicine destined for Managua, Nicaragua, which was devastated by an earthquake eight days earlier. Moments after the plane took off, an engine exploded, then three more, and the plane crashed into the ocean. Clemente’s body was never found.
