Let’s try a little experiment. Using your hands, mime what it looks like to talk on the phone. I bet you made that hand shape where your thumb and pinky both stick out, right? Now, if you have any kids who were born in the last few years, ask them to mime what it looks like to talk on the phone. It’ll probably be different, as this hilarious viral TikTok video demonstrates. The video, posted by TikTok user @yadirycz, alternates in different scenes between her asking her adult partner and her daughter, born in 2017, to show her how you “talk on the phone” and “take a picture.” Smartphones and kids amiright? @yadirycz Everone has to try this its too...
I was standing in a Whole Foods in Flagstaff, Arizona, and the beer was such a foul sight to see. Just eight days earlier, while straddling the Utah border at the northern terminus of the Arizona Trail, I’d taken a single slug of whiskey and savored its sting’s slow fade like some doomed lover’s last kiss. If all went well, that would be my final booze for about five weeks, or the time I intended to take to hike the 800 miles south to Mexico. This would, in fact, be my first long-distance hike without alcohol of any sort, and this refrigerated grocery aisle—meticulously stacked with colorful suitcases and satchels of beer, each as alluring as Daisy’s green dockside light—was...
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet “I have introduced you to everyone as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn’t Ernest.” — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Getting A Name It’s funny, isn’t it? The importance we place on the names we give our children — people we haven’t even met yet. Sometimes that name suits the person perfectly. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the name has been...
Click here to read Simple Snowflake Symmetry for Kids to Cut Out & See the Similarities on Hands On As We Grow® Snowflake symmetry is an amazing math learning opportunity for preschoolers when we’re stuck indoors during the cold winter months from Sarah at How Wee Learn! The snow is coming our way. We had some big, fluffy flurries in the air a few mornings ago. I can almost smell the winter air when I walk outside. Oh yes, winter will be here very soon. I am always excited about winter coming, about our first snowfall, building our first snowman (excuse me, snowperson), all those wonderful winter memories. But I would also like winter to last just a few months...
Today's constructor is Damon Gulczynski, a real blast from the past, who last visited us on February 18, 2010 and was reviewed by none other than C.C. Burnikel. Her review is worth reading if for no other reason than to see some commenters who were members of the fledgling Corner, some whom I know and some I do not. While he was away it seems that Damon was spending a lot of time at that other newspaper (and thanks to them we have this capsule bio). Today Damon wants to ask us someQuestionable Questionsusing 2 word clues, which are questions about the question we're asked to fill in. There's no reveal, but these and only these 5 Across clues end...
