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November 13, 2020
Ask Norman: What's Your Favorite Dino?
Hey Kids! Do you have a favorite dinosaur? Norman’s has a really, really, really long neck. Can you gu...
November 11, 2020
Poetry Challenge #165-Dino Romp-Pom
It’s said a picture is worth a thousand words, and so by way of sparing you reading 983 more:
Poetry Challenge #165 Dino Romp-Pom Write a poem inspired by this image (borrowed from @visualverseanthology).
Set your time for 7 minutes
Set your intentions to POEM
Start writing! D...
November 8, 2020
Norman T. Goldfish Answers: Why Were You So Shy?
Look at all those humans…gluuuu
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November 6, 2020
November 4, 2020
Poetry Challenge #164-Candy Anadilosis
Not sure who’s brilliant idea it was—maybe Milton Hershey’s —but it’s official: November 4th, four gluttonous days past “Trick or Treat” comes the sweetest day of all: National Candy Day!
Note the absence of chocolate…
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October 28, 2020
Poetry Challenge #163-The Answer is always Chocolate!
Now, what’s your question?
As if we need an excuse It’s National Chocolate Day. Yep! An entire 24 hours, 1440 minutes, not to mention seconds! At 1 chocolatey nibble per second that’s 86,400 nibbles! That’s my kind of day!
Like Willie Wonka, I think of the chocolate factory with chocolate trees and rivers. I imagine everything you can dip in chocolate.
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October 23, 2020
October 21, 2020
Poetry Challenge #162-Be Kind to Your Cold-Blooded Friends
This is a tuatara. Who knew?
Be kind to your cold-blooded friends, for that gecko maybe some critter’s mo-ther/Be kind to snakes, crocs, turtles, tuatara, too/And don’t just stick them all in the zoo…
There are approximately 10,700 species of reptile, that is four-limbe...
October 14, 2020
Poetry Challenge #161-Love Me Some D-E-S-S-E-R-T
Crumpet, Pumpkin, Sugar, Cupcake, Sweetie…the variety of ways we call loved ones by dessert names make me want to burst into song: Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch…Can’t help myself!
Especially not today, Oct. 14th, officially, unapologetically, National Dessert Day! Or, as I prefer to call it, Don’t Forget What Erma Said Day:
Seize the ...
October 13, 2020
We Need to Talk About First Ladies . . .
Or, Who's going to worry about the China Collection?
NOTE: THIS IS A REPOST FROM THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTI...
