Bag of Randomness
Monday, November 24, 2025

I actually had a great week last week, one of the best I’ve had in a while. Last Monday, I posted about going to my friend’s church in Mineral Wells. Well, his daughter happened to be playing in a basketball tournament just a half hour away from my little dwelling, so I attended all four of her games on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The drive, getting out of the house, and rebuilding a friendship did wonders for me. I’m so proud of the man he grew into, and made sure to thank his wife for helping to get him there. On Friday, he mentioned his favorite treat my mother used to make, peanut butter Rice Krispies treats. I surprised him with a batch on Saturday morning. It’s been two decades since he’s had them, I hope they lived up to his memory.

The Cowboys sure were lucky with that win yesterday, and are playing with a bit of momentum. These Eagles fans probably aren’t taking the loss well.

In case you were wondering how close Camden, New Jersey, is to Philly, it’s just across the Delaware River. You know the river, Washington once crossed it on a very cold Christmas.

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott set the team record for career passing yards in Sunday’s 24-21 upset of the Eagles. He refused to celebrate the moment until the comeback was complete.

Talk about buried news. The Texas Rangers Baseball Club released a statement during the Cowboys game that they had made a trade.

I did a lot of research to make sure this wasn’t fake or some sort of AI.

I’m sure many of you are unaware that the Chinese have their own space station, and you can follow it on Twitter.

For billions of years, Earth has rotated in the same direction as the sun — but what if that direction were reversed?

Deserts would cover North America, arid sand dunes would replace expanses of the Amazon rainforest in South America, and lush, green landscapes would flourish from central Africa to the Middle East.

Yup, the Sahara would no longer be a desert.

A bit of a lost art.

Caroline Kennedy lost her father on November 22, 1963.

On November 22, 2025, Tatiana Schlossberg, her 35-year-old daughter, published a candid essay in The New Yorker about her battle with acute myeloid leukemia, which was discovered last year after she gave birth to her second child. She has less than a year to live.

Man, Caroline lost her father to an assassination, her brother to a plane crash, and will lose a daughter to cancer. That woman can give you a lesson on how to deal with grief and unexpected death.

It’s Thanksgiving week. Schools are not in session; thus, thankfully, there will be no school shootings this week.

This was a tough segment to watch.

Since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, 13 years ago, more than 160 children have been killed in school shootings across the U.S. They’ve left behind devastated families, and friends, and empty bedrooms they once filled with life. For many parents, these rooms have become sanctuaries: a tangible link to a child they can still feel but no longer hold. Steve Hartman, a veteran CBS News correspondent, and Lou Bopp, a photographer, have spent the last seven years asking parents whose children have been killed for permission to take pictures of the empty rooms they’ve left behind. No easy task; they are, after all, portraits of a child who is no longer there.

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