Friday Fun: Gender Wiring

Friday Fun: Gender Wiring

Did you know … A study of preschoolers found that 100% of girls’ vocabulary were discernible words. 60% of boys’ vocabulary were discernible words. The remaining 40% of preschool boys’ language was . . . noise! Guns, fire engines, machines,...
Friday Fun: Living Frugally

Friday Fun: Living Frugally

Living frugally seems like voluntary poverty. The very word–frugal–sounds cheap. Parsimonious. Ebenezer Scrooge-ish. Frugal may sound that way, but that’s not really what it means. Frugal means not wasteful. It’s Latin word root, dating from 1590, actually means...
Friday Fun: Declaration of Independence

Friday Fun: Declaration of Independence

Since tomorrow is Independence Day, here’s a fun fact for you. In the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote the words: “…life, liberty and the pursuit of possessions.” Later it was changed to “…life, liberty and the pursuit of...
Friday Funny: Push or Pull

Friday Funny: Push or Pull

This Farside comic is one of my favorites… hope it gives you a smile or laugh, too!   [Tweet “Start your day with a smile! Visit @SuzanneWFisher’s blog for a Friday Funny!”] Are you new here? You might want to subscribe to my email...