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 13, 2024 | Travel
Do you know what happened in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912? That’s when the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic, sank. Information about this doomed vessel and many of its passengers is abundant. But there’s one story you may not yet have heard. Jenny...
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 | Dec 16, 2023 | Everything Else
What do Christmas, Druids, a Norse god, and bird droppings have in common? Mistletoe, of course! The Plant Mistletoe is a semi-parasitic plant that grows in large spherical clumps on a wide variety of hosts—trees and shrubs. Some mistletoe clumps can get as...
