Giving our first dramatic reading of a random paragraph! It was. . .meh. . . Celebrating National Librarian’s Day, and I confess I’m an introvert. No news there.

An Illinois couple discover a brick-lined tunnel beneath their historic house. Celebrate National Laundry Day by washing your tax money.  Get wild with your prose by the flagrant use of apocape.

Episode art by Benmar Schmidhuber at Unsplash.com

Do you have a home garden? How about gray hair? I have one but not the other.  Guess which one.

Episode art credit to Dennis Schrader 

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On yesterday’s show, I promised to *try* to create an original haiku. I did it!!  I think I’ll do more (stay tuned).  A listener asked me to research the meaning and origin of the phrase “beating a dead horse.” So I did. Not that I condone or encourage beating dead horses, I just did the research and present it for your edification.

What cheese do you want on your grilled cheese sandwich? Maybe you should write a Haiku about that. 

I found a new game touted on Best of Craigslist. Not sure I'm ready to compete (https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sac/7052566619.html)

It's National HUG YOUR DOG Day! And yesterday's featured picture on Wikipedia is of a BASE jumper. Those guys are nuts.

Episode art By Kontizas Dimitrios - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19769371

Don't let your natural inhibitions hold you back from asking others for what you want or need.  Just ask nicely.  And accept that they could turn you down.

It's hard to top National Beer Day, so we won't try :-)

A reading from PurposeFairy.com on The Wisdom of Stepping into The Unknown

And, two places I have *no* desire to visit.

Today is World Health Day, and this year’s theme honors nurses and midwives, the on-the-call, restless workforce that revolutionized the healthcare industry as we know it today. And we look at the emergence this spring of BILLIONS of 17-year cicadas.  Huge creep factor. . . .