Pause and sit on a bench
Five reasons to adopt this simple lifetime habit of sitting on a newly encountered bench.
My new gallery—a large flat stone in the Park District
Thinking about what artwork I can leave on this rock
Your age in circles drawn on a sheet of paper
A fun exercise that takes less than one minute: Take your current age in years, and draw the same number of circles on a sheet of paper, without lifting your pencil/pen.
Can you mail a paper airplane with a regular stamp?
Throwing a paper airplane into the mailbox slot is a lot of fun!
Making Xerox selfies at home with your inkjet printer
Today I learned my inkjet has a copy feature—like a Xerox machine! Of course, the first thing that I do…
Abbey Road crossing live webcam
View constant battles of pedestrian against car in the Abbey Road webcam.
The grumbling against snow
Sometimes I wonder if I’m missing out on a key cultural way that people relate to one another.
eBay auctions related to your last name
An eBay search for my last name comes up with some fun results.
X-men logos suddenly appear everywhere in a suburb
Why is someone going around Glen Ellyn spray-painting X-Men logos on people’s lawns?
Why “I Love Onions” is such a wonderfully quirky song
What combines kazoos, scatting, muppet voices, a Billboard 100 appearance, and played on Captain Kangaroo? Answer: this song!