My son, Rob, is a mechanical engineering major at Clemson. My husband and I were chatting with him about classes, specifically one called Heat Transfer. “How can there be an entire class on heat transfer?” I said. “Who are you to talk?” my husband said. “You got a theology degree…
Month: September 2020
Dying Phone Battery
My phone battery is dying. I just got an alert from the iPhone battery health department. “Your battery’s health is significantly degraded.” You’re in good company, Cell Phone Battery. I’m 52 years old, and parts of me are significantly degraded, too. The question is, What do I do with my…
Shoot the Moon
My new life goal: find things I’m bad at and use them to my advantage. Take card games. In the house I grew up in, several decks of cards with rubber bands around them were kept in a big steamer trunk in our den along with other games like Battleship…