Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Decision Fatigue: 9 Ways to Make Better Choices in Your Life

It seems like my head starts swimming everytime I shop on line, because places like Amazon know all about how to make price comparison difficult and deliberately make it hard to directly compare one product with another. That's when I know it's time to log out. Here's a couple videos that speak to that:

Friday, May 3, 2019

Akili and Me: Learn Swahili

I love learning languages and this is a fun show for total beginners to watch if you're interested in Swahili ... a beautiful language.


Here's a link that shows you how to say common phrases in Swahili: https://www.spokenswahili.com/blog/common-phrases-in-swahili/

Swahili flashcards.

Cool Swahili blog.



Monday, October 15, 2018

Halloween isn't fun anymore ...

I used to like Halloween but I don't anymore. I never really thought about it, but there are kids' holidays and grown-up holidays. An example of a grown-up holiday would be, say, New Year's. I couldn't even stay up for New Year's when I was little. My grandmother tried to help me by letting me drink a cup of coffee but I absolutely hated it. I wanted to stay up so bad but I absolutely couldn't. Funny thing is, I could almost stay up until midnight prowling around our tiny Montana town with a pillowcase full of candy, harassing my neighbors way later than I should have, high on Pixy Stix and SweeTARTS.