TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Whenever I want an interesting image to leave at the top of TYWKIWDBI at the end of a blogging day, I can always rely on a photo of a slime ...

Excerpts from an article in The Guardian  about a social trend in Britain: " I really loved hosting at home years ago, before I had kid...

The Atlantic makes note of a social trend in the U.S.: Americans have been spending less and less time with their friends over the past two...

Excerpts from an article in The Atlantic : A man walks into a restaurant. He doesn’t have a reservation, but that shouldn’t be a problem; th...

Half of my biologic heritage is from Norway, so this Facebook post earlier this year about Sami drums caught my attention.  Wikipedia has an...

The U.S. equity markets have been hitting all-time highs despite an ongoing war on Iran and relentlessly-increasing prices for gasoline, die...

Yesterday, The Guardian reported on rising costs for drinking water in the U.S.: US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than ...

I saw the above request in a Facebook thread.  I don't normally monitor Photoshop request sites, but I have enjoyed some responses I...

Wow.  If you're ever going to click the fullscreen icon in the lower right corner, this is the time to do so.

"I took this in 2025 in the Maasai Mara, Kenya, in the Oltepesi area. Three young giraffes were standing side by side on the savanna an...

These advertisements from International Paper ran in a variety of magazines in the early 1960s.  I encountered them in Reader's Digest ,...

What tree may not the fig be gathered from? The grape may not be gathered from the birch? It’s all you know the grape, or know the birch. As...

In the 18 years I've been writing this blog, I've reviewed 139 books to add to the "recommended books" category of TYWKIW...

This is one of the most interesting things I've found today and it was worth a quick browse (only fast-forwarded a couple times).  Despi...