December 2019

Animals Threatened By Climate Change

The threat of climate change is looming over not just all of humanity, but the animal kingdom. I don't know about you, but my heart broke seeing those fires in Australia taking koala habitat, and experts say that climate change is already to blame for much of the shrinking habitat we're seeing so many creatures lose. I read that birds are even shrinking, likely due to the stress of coping with higher temperatures. 

Skip The Oil Change And Do A Blood Change Instead!

Remember Repo! The Genetic Opera? If not, don't worry, this is much worse: a startup company is buying the blood of teenagers to sell to rich people for thousands of dollars to help them be healthier and live longer. This is incredibly distressing, especially considering the laws already on the books about organ selling. Also? People donate rather than sell blood to save lives, yet we're allowing this to happen?

Poetry For Young People: Robert Frost

In my house, we've been reading Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost, and we've really enjoyed it. It's the perfect book for fall and going into winter if you want to study poetry, and the illustrations are lovely. Each poem has its own page or two-page spread, which I really appreciate since a lot of poetry books cram them together. That's fine for older readers but we all appreciate a bit of space and beauty, and this makes it more accessible for kids.

Brits Think Our Healthcare Is Outrageous

There's a video going around about how shocked British people are to discover the costs of healthcare in the United States. Watching it made me tear up a bit, knowing how we could have it, knowing that most of the developed world has free or near-free healthcare and here we are with our for-profit system that's letting people die every single day.

Synthetic Frog Dissections

In high school, I must admit that I loved dissection. It wasn't until I was presented of dissecting a cat in Anatomy when I decided it was too much, took a different course instead, and became a vegetarian. My veggie journey has changed off and on and I'm currently not one, but I still think vivisection is wrong, especially since we have so many other wonderful alternatives now.

Holiday Gift Games

Do you like holiday gift games? I think it's much more fun (and cheap!) to do games like Secret Santa or Pass the Gift (or whatever variation you enjoy playing) than buying for every person in your family. Then you spend more time hanging out, eating, and playing games without the stress of the pricetag for all those gifts!

Best Place To Spot Santa

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Are you ready to meet up with Santa Clause? If not, maybe your kids or even pets are. This year, my family got matching PJs to get a photo with Mr. Klaus, which is saying a lot since my kiddo is now a teenager! I'd love to get pictures somewhere nice but affordable. I don't really care about package deals or location as much and don't mind bringing our own camera, either. But I'd love a fun element, if there are elves, a sleigh or reindeer involved!

Best Family Guy Spoofs

When it comes to shows like South Park and Fahttps://screenrant.com/family-guy-funniest-spoof-episodes-imdb/mily Guy, I have to admit that I love the spoof moments best, especially when it's regarding pop culture, politics or a fandom. It doesn't even matter if it's a fandom I love or hate as long as it's a quality spoof without too many low blows. Screen Rant recently rated the top 10 funniest spoof episodes as rated by IMDB and I wonder if they really are the best ten.

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