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1. Cat Herders' Day: Have you ever had to do anything where it felt like you were trying to herd cats?
Yes. My workplace. I feel that way constantly at work - site tours, coordinating meetings, facilitating meetings, getting information...sigh, people, sigh.
2.– Chocolate-Covered Anything Day: Is there anything that would not be improved by being covered in chocolate? What is your favourite chocolate-covered food?
Most vegetables it doesn't not work well with - and tomatoes are kind of gross with chocolate. Not crazy about on red meat. Can work well as a moule sauce on chicken though. I like chocolate covered berries, bananas, apples and pears - but not tomatoes or avocados, unless the avocado is mixed with it like a mousse.
3. – Wright Brothers Day: How do you feel about plane travel?
I like flying, I do not like traveling to and from airports, sitting in airport waiting rooms, or visiting airports. So if I could just hop on the plane and hop off with my luggage - kind of like a commuter train, I'd be happy.
4. – International Migrants Day: International Migrants Day emphasizes the protection of migrants’ human rights. The day also recognizes the contributions and efforts of migrants around the world. Has anyone in your family ever migrated from one country to another? What would your country be like without migrants?
Well, I live in the US, most of us are migrants. My great grandparents on my father's side migrated from France/Belgium, and Ireland, also Wales. On my mother's side, my great grandfather migrated from Germany with his wife, who only spoke German. All of our ancestors came from elsewhere - even the Native Americans migrated over the Bering Straight.
So, without Migrants? It would probably just be animals?
5. Did you believe in Santa as a kid?
See, my mother was smart about this. As were her parents. They didn't wrap the gifts. They just laid them out neatly around the tree, with the tree, and completely put together. My father would stay up late and put them together.
So we'd come downstairs - and there it all would be as if some fairy had magically whisked them there. My mother was good at engineering magic.
She also told us that Santa was a way for people to give without any recognition in return. To self-lessly give to the kids or each other. Or anonymously.
When my grandmother was a child she got maybe an orange from Santa, they were so poor. But the magic was still alive.
6. My father resembled Dick Van Dyke, Dennis the Menace's father, and Calvin's father. Black hair, big nose, and glasses. He really looked like Dick Van Dyke - except Dyke's hair turned white, and Dad lost his.
Dyke was older than Dad, and has outlived him. Every time I see Dyke, I think of my father, and I miss my father. Even though my father couldn't dance or sing, he lived a good life.
Yes. My workplace. I feel that way constantly at work - site tours, coordinating meetings, facilitating meetings, getting information...sigh, people, sigh.
2.– Chocolate-Covered Anything Day: Is there anything that would not be improved by being covered in chocolate? What is your favourite chocolate-covered food?
Most vegetables it doesn't not work well with - and tomatoes are kind of gross with chocolate. Not crazy about on red meat. Can work well as a moule sauce on chicken though. I like chocolate covered berries, bananas, apples and pears - but not tomatoes or avocados, unless the avocado is mixed with it like a mousse.
3. – Wright Brothers Day: How do you feel about plane travel?
I like flying, I do not like traveling to and from airports, sitting in airport waiting rooms, or visiting airports. So if I could just hop on the plane and hop off with my luggage - kind of like a commuter train, I'd be happy.
4. – International Migrants Day: International Migrants Day emphasizes the protection of migrants’ human rights. The day also recognizes the contributions and efforts of migrants around the world. Has anyone in your family ever migrated from one country to another? What would your country be like without migrants?
Well, I live in the US, most of us are migrants. My great grandparents on my father's side migrated from France/Belgium, and Ireland, also Wales. On my mother's side, my great grandfather migrated from Germany with his wife, who only spoke German. All of our ancestors came from elsewhere - even the Native Americans migrated over the Bering Straight.
So, without Migrants? It would probably just be animals?
5. Did you believe in Santa as a kid?
See, my mother was smart about this. As were her parents. They didn't wrap the gifts. They just laid them out neatly around the tree, with the tree, and completely put together. My father would stay up late and put them together.
So we'd come downstairs - and there it all would be as if some fairy had magically whisked them there. My mother was good at engineering magic.
She also told us that Santa was a way for people to give without any recognition in return. To self-lessly give to the kids or each other. Or anonymously.
When my grandmother was a child she got maybe an orange from Santa, they were so poor. But the magic was still alive.
6. My father resembled Dick Van Dyke, Dennis the Menace's father, and Calvin's father. Black hair, big nose, and glasses. He really looked like Dick Van Dyke - except Dyke's hair turned white, and Dad lost his.
Dyke was older than Dad, and has outlived him. Every time I see Dyke, I think of my father, and I miss my father. Even though my father couldn't dance or sing, he lived a good life.