My fond memories of my youth were high lighted with the first fall of snow. It was so much fun. To play like kids, fast, furious, and fathomless (at the time, and who would of imagined how fast time went by).  After a long winter's day we would head home. Mom would makes some hot chocolate and the warmth of our house always felt good

8/22/2018 - Poetry form: Footle - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018 - "You've probably been told that the singularity is coming. It is that long-awaited point in time — likely, a point in our very near future — when advances in artificial intelligence lead to the creation of a machine (a technological form of life?) smarter than humans." |Futurism http://bit.ly/2w23XLg

7/11/2018 - Poetry form: Footle - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018 - "Perhaps you’ve heard about it. Maybe you’ve seen it. Now YOU can do it! Spend a night camping out on a sheer rock face hundreds of feet off the ground. Cliff Camping should be on every adventure seekers “Bucket” list!" Ah, let me think about it and I'll get back to you!

7/10/2018 - Poetry form: Footle - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018 - Alrighty then..."And so it ended, not with a burger, but with a whimper. The International House of Pancakes is once more all about the flapjacks. The restaurant chain famed for its breakfast menu upset and entertained fans in June when it (IHOb) to promote a new hamburger menu. The publicity stunt/experiment wrapped up on Monday.  IHOP posted on its @IHOb Twitter account, which completely took over for @IHOP during the name change, that it's now returned to its original moniker: '  (Excerpt from https://www.cnet.com/news/ihop-flips-back-to-pancakes-drops-ihob-name/)
I'm glad they cleared that up! :)

7/5/2018 - Poetry form: Footle - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018 - “Dim sum (literal meaning: snack) is a style of Chinese cuisine prepared as small bite-sized portions of food served in small steamer baskets or on small plates. The Cantonese tradition of having endless cups of tea and dim sum is also called “yum cha”, which means “drink tea” in Cantonese... Yum cha has its roots in travelers on the ancient Silk Road needing a place to rest. Thus, tea houses were established along the roadside... People later discovered that tea can aid in digestion, so teahouse owners began adding various snacks.” (Wikipedia -Dim Sum)

6/27/2018 - Poetry form: Footle - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018

6/27/2018 - Poetry form: Footle - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018 - Many people, after only a few minutes of online research, become extremely frustrated with all the different acronyms used in the field of ELT (That's an overall acronym to describe the industry - English Language Teaching). Especially confusing are the various acronyms used to denote initial teacher training programs and certificates. -http://schoolofesl.org

6/27/2018 - Poetry form: Footle - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018

6/26/2018 - Poetry form: Footle - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018 - Follow the side of the road pointed out by that aardvark snout and you will discover the intriguingly named "Planet Baobab." Located in Gweta, Botswana, the Baobab tree capital of the world, where the average age of each tree is 4000 years and beyond, and the boundless lunar landscape of the Makgadikgadi salt pans is the size of Switzerland!(planetbaobabbotswana.com)

6/5/2018 - Poetry form: Footle - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018 - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018 - This footle poem fills the bill :)