For all practical purposes, summer is over. If you don’t believe me, check your thermometer. Mine is heading to a predicted high of 98° although with the heat index it feels even hotter. That’s fall, right? Here, school starts tomorrow. That’s fall, right? And yet Labor Day is weeks away. There’s still time for a trip or two to the …
Sympathy? Or empathy?
Here is a brief video (2:53) that puts a fine point something we could all use a bit more of: empathy. But what is it? And how does it differ from sympathy? How can offering sympathy actually be unsympathetic and maybe even come across as callous and dismissive? Watch, and the next time someone needs sympathy, maybe you can offer …
Selfie Sticks: A Horror Story
Talk about a corporation with a heart of pepperoni – I mean gold – that describes Pizza Hut. They have taken a few thousand dollars of pizza profit and created a Public Service Announcement that could save thousands of lives. As you’re about to see, the subject is the growing menace of selfie stick abuse. Have you been a victim? …
PSA of the Week
In a world where everyone has a forum (if not several) ready to instantly accept their every thought, these are wise words indeed. In decades past, getting an opinion before large numbers of people was probably best served by writing a Letter to the Editor of the local newspaper. Maybe a week later it might appear, shortened, sanitized, heavily edited …
RED-HOT PSA
Forget global warming for a moment: in my corner of the planet today, we have local warming. Intense local warming. Like over 100°F intense.In fact, it goes beyond warming and well into heating (but just short of incinerating). And yet, as Mark Twain allegedly (but probably didn’t) put it, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” …
Seconds count. Or do they?
The recent accident on Riverwatch Parkway that killed three boys, all ages 8 and 9, happened when a driver accused of traveling nearly 70 mph in a 45 mph zone allegedly ran a red light, striking the car with the three boys sitting in the back seat. That car, which turned left in front of the speeder, also ran the …
AUTO CORRECT (get it?)
Texting and driving is illegal. So that’s put a complete stop to it, right? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. LOL! That is so funny! This is a great PSA from das people at Volkswagen. Good job, AutoCorrect!
It’s the PSA of the Week!
Remember back in your college days or early singlehood when everything you owned would fit in your hippie van with room to spare? As the years slide by, we accumulate lots of things. The closets are full. Under the bed is full. There is no longer room to park the car in the garage. The storage unit(s) are full. And …
Public Service Announcement
How many premature deaths from the top five causes are preventable? Lots of them. Life is precious. Live like you have just one body that has to last an entire lifetime.
PSA of the Week
Don’t – please don’t – be any of these people. Look at the big beautiful world around you, not a phone screen.