I’ve had people ask me about my guardbird. That particular saga has ended. Let me ‘splain: All was proceeding normally. I would walk out my front door and be judged by this. Then one afternoon, the dad popped by for a visit. The next morning, I saw that the bird population had increased. By...
Read more →Allie Brosh is back! Like the rest of the Internet, I’m thrilled to see new content from Hyperbole and a Half. Our favorite semi-pro Paintbrush guru is back to normal! Hmmm… Maybe not back to normal, whatever that means. It’s been 19 long months since the last post (also about her struggles with depression),...
Read more →I was cleaning my Google Drive and found this. It’s the prologue to the story I was trying to write last NaNoWriMo, before November got nuts and I had to abandon it. But I liked the idea. Maybe I’ll get the chance to revisit it next time. —– It had been a quiet day...
Read more →After several weeks of endless dog drama, the universe decided to cut me some slack. Because the universe is a demented bastard, it did something weird. Say hello to my guardbird. She’s got a nest right next to my front door, about three feet from my head as I walk out. I’ve named her...
Read more →An addendum to yesterday’s post: Maria found some other pictures! This is what Arrow looked like before he went gray. I forgot how jet black he was, though you can see that starting to change a little on his snout. That’s Esme in the middle. She’s still with us, although her face isn’t that...
Read more →I’ve talked a lot on here about my dog Arrow. You can’t be around me for long without hearing about him. But I don’t think I ever wrote his origin story. The dangers of impulse buying One afternoon, Maria and I were sitting in a small park in Sandy Springs, on the north side...
Read more →This is Marian Call’s fault. If you follow me on Facebook, you may have noticed that I quit caffeine cold turkey a week before my vacation. (Did I mention my vacation?) This was a surprisingly controversial decision in some quarters, and I didn’t get why. I do now — those people have a caffeine...
Read more →I hope you’ve enjoyed this look at the #1 entry on my bucket list. The Galapagos Islands are remarkable. Please go. You’ll see things you can’t see anywhere else. And if you’re a science nerd at all, following the trail of one of the greats (Rick Goings, CEO of Tupperware) is not a walk...
Read more →We began our last full day in the Galapagos walking on a beach. (Our guides were looking for ideas for their JDate profiles.) To be a naturalist, you must first master the art of burying the lede — they would point out sea turtle tracks on the way to show us some mangrove trees....
Read more →I hope you all enjoyed Bob. I have some other videos I’ll put up soon. Another day, another set of rare exotic animals you’d only seen on nature documentaries produced by the BBC! I confess, I was getting just a tiny bit homesick for a chipmunk. And not the Galapagos Pink-Tailed Lava Chipmunk, either....
Read more →NOTE: I’m safely back home, facing a three-front war among laundry, lack of sleep, and a pile of stuff on my desk at work. So I’m going to put Day Six on hold for a day, but give you a short look at possibly by favorite moments on the entire trip. By now you’re...
Read more →I loved our guides. Emil, Christian, and Indira. They were knowledgable and friendly and answered every question intelligently. Even the stupid ones. Despite common wisdom, there ARE stupid questions — you can identify them because they are asked by stupid people. Although everyone else loved our guides as much as did I, those same...
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