Smiling to the bottom
Smiling helps us get to the bottom of things. Smiling helps us to deal with the things at the bottom. Smiling carries us in warm, strong arms to the sun-kissed surface.
Other people’s Tupperware
I wish I could tell you why people get mean when they’re really just scared. I wish I could tell you why they don’t write more songs about the smell of thunderstorms. I wish I could tell you why I don’t “get” avocado; no, not even in the form of guac; yes, I have tried […]
Guest post: The eternal springtime of the contented cat
As summer bakes us and steams us until we plead for mercy from its grip and for more air conditioning, we know there is a reprieve. We don’t even have to wait for the blissful cool of autumn to find the kind of cool that can bring us back to our heat-muddle senses. I’m talking […]
Melty mysticism
Long before you had a choice or a vote or a single tooth, you were saddled with a word that would become forever You. Have you grown into your name? Or has the name grown to fit your vastness?
Crooked grins
I’m flawed. You’re flawed. Let’s get up, brush our teeth, and go on with being glorious anyway.
Guest post: The Neo-Carboniferous Period
Anyone familiar with a particular movie franchise will have heard of different periods of geologic history, especially the Jurassic. Some may also be aware of the Triassic. Along with the Cretaceous, these 3 periods make up the Mezosoic Era. I’m probably losing you, so let’s just go with this: these times were all long enough […]
Majestically lucky
Tabby’s Place and sparrows and leopards and the color pink and pumpernickel and Pumpernickel (pictured at left) EXIST. Also strawberries, and ice cream made thereof, and oboes, and sneakers that light up when you step down. And someone figured out one day how to tie-dye things, and the world has been better ever since, and […]
Epilogues: June 2021
You can’t blame June for a blessed thing. I suppose you could, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Neither would 1.366 million kittens.
Urgin’ to Sturgeon
I have good news and bad news. You’re never actually done. Neither is Sturgeon. But that’s just one of many excellent qualities you share with this big fish.