Sock Events Sock Historians Have Often Overlooked by Mark Lyons Image by congerdesign from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and Sammy’s Dad Sock historians have the reputation – and rightly so – of being a wild and crazy bunch. Whoopee cushions, dribble glasses, fake vomit, toilet paper all over your front yard, and squirting you in the eye from a water shooting lapel flower are just a few of the whacky things sock historians are known for doing. I know! Crazy, right? But, amongst all of this “wild thing” behavior, sock historians are thoroughly serious and qualified on the history of socks. Even still, they sometimes miss and...
Family by Mark Lyons Image by Gisela Merkurr from Pixabay Family is important all throughout the year – any year – every year. The holiday season highlights this importance even more. This year, the emphasis on family is all encompassing. The value of loved ones who care for each other and will do anything to make sure everyone is safe, healthy, and secure has no limit. The holiday season can be tough for some people. Family can help ease the “toughness”. No matter what the situation, family can be understanding, accepting, and supportive. That is what makes family so important. As family members gather, either in person or distanced, the love they share has...
Theories of Why Socks Go Missing From the Dryer by Mark Lyons Image by Gundula Vogel from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and Sammy’s Dad You tackle your weekly chores of washing, cleaning, and drying your family’s clothes. This includes socks. As you know, keeping your socks clean is the single most important component of a happy life. It’s not money, power, fame, or paying the cheapest rate for car insurance. It’s clean and dry socks. You take your job seriously. But, invariably, you pull the pile of warm and toasty clothes from the dryer, drop them onto your bed, carefully sort and fold each item, and...
The Joys of Technology by Mark Lyons Image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and Sammy’s Dad Hi! Your phone call gets dropped. The document you spent hours working on is suddenly gone. Your laptop freezes. Facebook is down. Your promising video does not go viral after all. The car will not start due to a “chip” problem. Your smart thermostat keeps turning on the heat. Your doorbell gets hacked and keeps showing you cat videos. Oh, the joys of technology. We get impatient now if we have to wait .5 seconds for any videos to load onto our computers. We panic if we...
It's Hard Not to Want Everything to Be Perfect by Mark Lyons Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and Sammy’s Dad Hi! Samuel (the Sammy of SammySocks Etc.) has many different behaviors. He has a set routine each day and struggles when that schedule changes either out of necessity or something just happens to disrupt it. He wants his schedule to be “perfect” as to his wants and needs. Samuel stresses when it is not. We try to have him get used to change and what to do when unexpected events impinge on his routine. Stop, take deep breaths, envision what is going...
