After a stop in Phoenix for YAllapalooza, I’m on my way to climes eastern and cold. Lnhammer and the tuxedo kitty gang are holding down the fort for the duration. The northeast is rather cold this week, isn’t it? One thing about traveling (and even not-traveling) is, you stumble upon fragments of other people’s stories. […]
Dear Internet, No, no, no. I just wanted to look at pictures of baby ravens. I didn’t want to buy one. Not everything of value needs to be available for my personal purchase and ownership. You and your peeps might consider that sometime. Me P.S. Also, am beginning to suspect there’s no search term on
Just another helpful letter to the Internet Read More »
Dear 2013, You’re inheriting some pretty big hopes and dreams for such a new year. Take good care of them, okay? Me
Year’s first letter Read More »
Mother adjusting how toddler is strapped into high chair: “We’re not whiners, we’re solution finders!” I wonder what Honest Toddler would have to say about that?
Overheard at today’s coffeeshop Read More »
An email sent to the San Diego Zoo last week: Hi! I was visiting your mountain lion page at http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-puma.html, and saw that its genus and species were listed as Felis concolor. My understanding was that the mountain lion had been reclassified as Puma concolor a couple decades back. Is there still debate about the
Dear Internet, No, I do not want to buy a golden eagle talon. Where did you get that? Never mind. Just put it back, okay? Me
Sunday afternoon research Read More »
Dear Internet and Google and Advertisers Everywhere, By changing the ads you show me almost daily based on my latest round of intense book-based research, you may think you’re just showing you care. But actually, the effect is way more stalkery than that. Me
No, really, I’m not in the market for that. Or that either. Or even that. Read More »
“If anything, doubt the world. Don’t doubt yourself.”
Overheard in a coffeeshop today Read More »
Dear Tucson, I know, I know. I’m probably just getting complacent, after our recent stretch of merely warm temperatures. It’s not like we haven’t been here before, after all, here and quite a ways beyond here. But even so, I feel the need to say: It is really quite hot out today. That is all.