If you read my email last week, you learned that hummingbirds can see colors that humans cannot. This week’s amazing animal is the bumblebee. Bees build up a positive electric charge as they fly. I’m tempted to touch bumblebees because they look so fuzzy and soft. But if they have…
Author: Wendy Herrmann Smith
Hummingbirds’ True Colors
An article in the Wall Street Journal said hummingbirds can see colors humans cannot. The Journal had a picture with colors in a spectrum. On the right end was red. That’s why Republicans, on the political right, are associated with the color red. On the left end of the color…
The Beatles and Jesus
In the summer of 1966, radio stations banned Beatles songs because John Lennon said the band was more popular than Jesus. In response, Jesus said, “Don’t be stupid, radio stations. So what if John and Paul are more popular than I am? I’ve never been in it for the popularity.…
Horoscopes and Viruses
A couple months ago, the Toronto Star published the following: “This horoscope column includes some suggestions that are contrary to the advice to socially distance or self-quarantine which have been urged by local health agencies. . . . That is because these horoscopes were written a few weeks ago, before…
My Cousin Princess Diana
As I lay in bed one morning at 8:46, I determined that my kids have 36 second cousins. The child of your parent’s sibling is your first cousin. If your first cousin has children and you have children, these children are second cousins to each other. If you really want…