Your Odds Were Long
Looking for frog eggs Eggs. Red-legged frogs lug them around this time of year, and [...]
Take The Last Shuttle To Sexville
We've been scooping up frogs and bucketing them across Highway 30 for several years now, [...]
The Universal Ma’amer
"Yes ma'am," I said, and winced instantly, with a furtive glance at the grocery clerk [...]
The Dumpling
Why? What does your plunger look like? My insurance company sent me a card on [...]
Grok Say ‘Uff Da’
Hans and Petra Skari I went ahead and sent my spit to a DNA company, [...]
When Death Approached: The Floofy Swan
I might have been a little hard on ol' Orlando Gibbons, there, the madrigal composer, [...]
The Silver Swanne
I miss our madrigal group. I do. There's something awfully satisfying about making music with [...]
Almost Well Done
The other day--you probably heard--a group of people working together stuck an entire robot on [...]
Got-Choo!
One of the things about our cat Tater, see, is that she is going to [...]
Let Nothing Ye Dismay Too Much
I was ready to celebrate Christmas, or as it is known in our family, Tuesday. [...]
Good Stories
I must've been a Doubting Debbie early on, because I sure don't remember being traumatized [...]
Hark! Hark, I Say!
"Let's go caroling," Dorothy said, and it sounded like a swell idea to us. We [...]
Sit On My Face
As far as I know, the face mite is the only living animal that doesn't [...]
Spread This
We're about thirty years in, now, on making our own Christmas cards, and by "we," [...]
A Slug Named Skippy
I spied a hyphenated slug trail the other day. Slug trails themselves are not at [...]