You just never really never know what’s going to happen next.  And sometimes it’s a good thing. I was reminded of that fact twice this week as I overstressed about some project deadlines of mine.  Honestly, I am old enough to know better than this, to remember that it’s not so much the situation as it [...]

I’m not exactly sure how it happened but Monday, February 22, was National Margarita Day and I missed it.  I hope this isn’t some latent manifestation of procrastinational tendencies of mine coming to the fore – because, while procrastination can truly be an art form, applying it to national margarita day is, well, simply irresponsible. [...]

Todays post is all about our free 2011 WoodChips calendars.  They’ve been quite a hit around the office.  And no wonder.  Besides having all the conventional holidays, they have the really COOL holidays, like Talk Like A Pirate Day, Belly Laugh Day, Fat Tuesday (of course) and even International WoodChips Day – which just happens to [...]

Yesterday a big news item was about Natalie Munroe, a teacher, who posted comments on her blog about some of her students.  The posts were anonymous, that is to say, the students were not named.  None the less, some of her comments were considered rather mean, and this has created quite a stir. Natalie, who [...]

So everyone is all hip with technology and texting messages to each other these days and feeling like they’re doing something new. But there are few new ideas under the sun, really.  A little known fact is the older generation had message texting too.  It was called the teletype, and current texting messages remind me [...]

Soooo … you’re getting down to the wire on getting a Valentines Day card.  Actually, if you were planning on mailing it, I’m sad to say, you may be too late. No worries, mate.  You can send our free WoodChips TreeCard (e-card) pictured above and it will arrive instantly.  Outside of showing a fun, forest [...]

In a recent scientific breakthrough chicken feathers have been discovered to have important properties to help solve our energy crisis and other big problems we face. It turns out that chicken feathers can absorb a great deal of hydrogen.  Hydrogen has long been considered the ideal fuel of the future because it is pollution free [...]

Many of us have to write on occasion.  Perhaps this is at work.  Perhaps this is you, and you are under the pressure of a deadline.  And there you sit, mind blank, trying to write something. Here’s a little trick I learned many years ago.  I have been free of writers block ever since. I [...]