BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Sometimes a thought just gets into my head or something happens that makes me go, “Hmmmm!”

So I’m putting laundry away and see a pair of my daughter’s socks. They both have holes in them! Garbage! Then I wonder, does anyone darn socks anymore? Will my young readers know that “darn” is something other than a mild euphemism? Hmmmm.

One day my daughter was playing cards and one fell out of her hands. It landed on its edge right between the space of the wood floor! Had she wanted to do that on purpose would it have happened? Hmmmm.

I’m sleeping and dreaming, dreaming that I need to go to the bathroom. I’m using different restrooms but I still have the feeling that I need to go, no matter how many restrooms I go to. Then I wake up really having to use the restroom. Am I the only one dreaming such things? Hmmmm!

I know I’m not the only one to whom this happens but, why do I find things I am not looking for when I do not need them but cannot find something when I do need it? And when I find the thing I was not looking for at the time I did not need it, but days later I do need it, where is it? Hmmmm!

It happens all the time I start to wash dishes; my hands are wet and soapy and all of a sudden my nose starts to itch! Allergies? Someone’s idea of a practical joke? A spell? A sign that I should tell my husband to do the dishes? Hmmmm!

I was chopping onions one day and the knife slipped out of my hand and fell. It landed with its tip embedded on the floor ...right next to my bare foot! I believe things happen for a reason but the point of this was? (Pardon the pun!) Hmmmm!

“No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.”
~Niels (Henrik David) Bohr