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A Group of FriendsPhoto by Matheus Ferrero on Unsplash. I figured I would put pen to paper and describe something that has always irked me about my friend. We all have friends who have developed or exhibited some habit or trait to which we assign our friend’s name directly. Let me give you an example. You just pulled a “Josh,” or that is so “Karen,” as it has become quite popular nowadays. Karen just happened to be my mother’s name (I wonder how she would feel about that, but I digress).

I heard a pretty remarkable story and thought I would share this. A friend of mine bought a 1909 National Register brass cash register. As a collector, he stashed this away for a few years before finally committing to including this in his “Man Cave” bar areas. His primary goal was to bring as much care to this piece of machinery after sitting for so long. Think about it; this unit has not been in service in over 100 years.

"She feels a bit rutted," I thought to myself. A bit scratchy around the temples. A bit ragged in the midsection. A bit dehydrated, a bit sleepy, a bit weak in the lower spine, a bit sunburnt, a bit bored.

In the different versions of Rapunzel, we come across very different kinds of heroines. Some of them are very active and independent thinkers and others fit into the description of a damsel in distress.

People love food and wherever you go in the world, that’s one of the topics that you can easily talk to anyone about regardless of your cultural differences. Here in the United States, we’ve had a very old saying for a long time, which is the best thing since sliced bread.

This is a bit of a riddle. It turns out that if you have a glass of hot water and you have a glass of cold water, and you put them in a freezer, one of them freezes faster than the other. The hot water actually freezes more quickly. This is called the Mpemba effect.