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Living (and loving) Life
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.“
–Elizabeth Hardwick
My love for reading started when I was little more than a toddler, and it has never waned in all the years since I held that very first book.
It all started with my dad…
Times were hard back when my dad was a child. They were so hard in fact that he quit school after 6th grade to work and help feed his large family.
Do you enjoy starting your mornings by drinking a steaming cup of spiced coffee?
These days you can buy coffee that’s spiced up with cinnamon, nutmeg or most any other spice you can think of.
The thing is, these spiced coffees often cost more than their non-spiced counterparts.
If you love your spiced coffee buy hate paying a premium for it, you can easily make your own right at home using the cheaper non-spiced version of your favorite brand of coffee.
Chances are you’ve never heard of the tiny Philippine island named Vulcan Point, but it’s actually one of the most interesting places on planet Earth.
What makes this tiny island so interesting is it’s a “third-order island”.
What’s a “third order island” you ask?
The massive amount of snow that fell on western New York state a few weeks ago got me to wondering just how tall the tallest snowfalls in history must have been.
Of course there’s no way to know how much snow fell in many parts of the world in centuries past, but the video featured below lists the 10 tallest snowfalls that were ever recorded as of four years ago. [Read more…]
If you’re an animal lover you’re probably quite fond of our deer friends.
I grew up in a rural area where deer were abundant, and it was fairly common to see one of them become semi-domesticated to the point where it trusted humans – at least up to a point.
Today’s short video features Thor, an abandoned young buck that grew very close to the lady who cared for him when he was too young to care for himself. [Read more…]