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...
What Day Is It? It's Saturday! by Mark Lyons Image by Mary Pahlke from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and Sammy’s Dad Hi! The seventh day of the week, Saturday, is named after the planet Saturn. For many people, Saturday is part of a two-day weekend. Saturday is the last day of the seven-day week. It is often the busier of the weekend days. There is lots to do and just two days to get it all done before Monday returns. The Saturday “To Do” list always looks doable on Friday night. Saturday morning dawns fresh and promising. Anything is possible. The “To Do” list is going...
When the Day That You Couldn't Wait for Arrives! by Mark Lyons Image by Gerjard G. from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and Sammy’s Dad Hi! I remember as a young lad that I couldn’t wait for my birthday. I was going to be a year older and in just one day! It was difficult for me to imagine that I am one age on one day and the next day I am a whole year older. I even asked my mom exactly the time of day that I was born. It was some time around 10 o’clock in the morning. So on the day of my birthday...
