by B.L. Unkel | May 11, 2024 | Everything Else
May 10 was National Shrimp Day. Would it surprise you to learn shrimp is the U.S.’s favorite seafood? Twenty-five percent of all seafood eaten in the U.S. is shrimp. Food History Humans, especially those who lived near the sea, started eating shrimp thousands...
by B.L. Unkel | Apr 6, 2024 | Everything Else
If you gave an animal a kangaroo pouch, the tail of a monkey, and the snout of a rat, what would you have? Last week, I shared my “Meeting Mr. Opossum” story in Did You Know Face-To-Face Meetings Aren’t Always What You Expect? This week, let’s look closer at this...
by B.L. Unkel | Mar 30, 2024 | Everything Else
Spring is settling into Texas, and with it comes spring cleaning—inside and out. The Meeting A couple of weeks ago, I was cleaning out the small red barn we use for storage. It’s on its last legs, so I’d bought a replacement. But before we could move the new...
by B.L. Unkel | Mar 9, 2024 | Everything Else
Tonight—well, technically tomorrow morning—we’ll lose an hour as we set our clocks forward to Daylight Saving Time (DST). What do you know about it? Benjamin Franklin If you ever saw the movie “National Treasure,” you heard the main characters credit Benjamin...
by B.L. Unkel | Feb 24, 2024 | Everything Else
The 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season opened this week. That makes today the perfect time to talk baseball caps. History Baseball’s first “official” team, the New York Knickerbockers (formed in 1845), adopted the first official team uniform and hat in...
by B.L. Unkel | Jan 20, 2024 | Everything Else
Winter brings the need to bundle up against the cold. Part of that process is donning a hat. Hat History Head coverings were invented for more than just protecting the wearer’s head. A hat can also indicate a person’s job, as well as their social status. They...