by A. T. Baron | Jan 5, 2024 | Fortune Cookie Friday
I spent New Year’s Eve with my family, and we watched the ball drop at midnight. The first ball drop in Times Square was on New Year’s Eve, 1907, partly due to a fireworks ban. The sparkling ball became an annual tradition to celebrate ringing in the new year,...
by A. T. Baron | Dec 1, 2023 | Fortune Cookie Friday
What is happiness? Many people search for it and come up empty-handed. Some think that they can find happiness in money. Others believe they can find it in fame. Companies try to convince us that we can be happy buying their products. They have slogans such as “Open...
by A. T. Baron | Nov 3, 2023 | Fortune Cookie Friday
When my children were younger, they asked many questions. “Why is the sky blue? How do birds fly? Where does the poop go when we flush the toilet?” I tried to answer each of them to the best of my ability. I also encouraged them to ask more. If I didn’t know the...
by A. T. Baron | Oct 6, 2023 | Fortune Cookie Friday
It’s been a rough few weeks for me. I have an ever-growing list of projects and tasks I need to complete and an ever-shrinking amount of time to complete them. There are moments when I feel like I won’t be able to accomplish my goals, and then a fortune like today’s...
by A. T. Baron | Sep 1, 2023 | Fortune Cookie Friday
What do you think of when you hear the word adventure? Do you imagine a brave warrior traveling to unknown lands on a quest? Do you envision peering through a submarine’s window twenty thousand leagues under the sea? Or do you daydream about exploring a distant...
by A. T. Baron | Aug 4, 2023 | Fortune Cookie Friday
Today’s fortune is brought to us by 1960s Polish poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. Many poets and writers use metaphors, so it isn’t surprising to find many fortunes are metaphors. Interestingly, many fortunes, proverbs, etc., are also philosophical or have a psychological...
