The blog challenge prompt is “Learn something new? Share it with your readers.”

Well, readers, this is tricky.

I am an information collecting junkie. Always have been. I was that weird kid who read dictionaries front to back. When I finished Merriam-Webster, my mom brought home the school psychologist’s dictionary and I read that in its entirety. I went through the DSM-R and DSM-III thoroughly. I read the thesaurus and a slang dictionary I got at a book fair. When I took Abnormal Psychology in college for fun, I read the textbook before the first month was over.

I gladly pay Wikipedia $3 a year to keep the lights on, because that is a mecca of information for me. My kids like to play the Wiki Game where they pick 2 random topics and see how many clicks it takes to get from one topic to the other. One of my kids is a pro at the 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon game and an absolute fount of information when it comes to connecting actors and movies and musicians to each other without using technology–he just has it all stored in his gray matter. Same with another son and basketball stats.

So if we are talking trivial information, pick a topic and I can probably pull out some obscure fact–if I can’t, one of my kids can.

If we are talking about a physical skill, I have slowed down in that department. I don’t do a whole lot of active stuff anymore. Arthritis puts a bit of a damper on that when my hands and back don’t cooperate and I can’t stand or walk for long periods of time. I dink around with adding to my existing skill set–trying out new recipes, learning to crochet a different pattern, that sort of thing. Did a tedious crochet project last week with thread and my grandma’s itsy bitsy needles–one turned out great and the other one did not, and now my thumb is inflamed from maintaining thread tension and I will need to rest it for a week before I redo the flop.

I think I will stick to exercising the area between my ears for the time being. On to the next rabbit hole!