Each day provides new opportunities to learn important little tips. Tonight, for example, I spent some time helping in the kitchen. Not much really, just a couple of batches of cookies that have to be moved from the oven to the cooling rack and the next batch journeys to the oven.

It turns out, however, that flipping hot cookies straight from the cookie sheet into the air like a flapjack and aiming for the cooling rack is not a good idea. Warm to hot cookie parts end up strewn everywhere.