Halloween just passed, but it’s not too late to talk about scary things. Like sheep. You think I’m kidding? Have you tried to handle a full-grown sheep? I’m on Twitter now and then. Okay, multiple times a day. A woman on Twitter asked her friends to tell something unusual about…
Author: Wendy Herrmann Smith
Iguanas
It’s not every day you see a live animal in the grocery store. In the meat department, the butcher offers quite a few expired animals. By expired, I mean dead. Beef cattle, chickens, lambs. Who eats lamb? I can’t bring myself to eat what used to be the little critter…
Corvette
Today’s topic is the Corvette. On a recent vacation to Tennessee, we took at side trip north to Bowling Green, Kentucky, home of the National Corvette Museum. The museum opened in 1994 to celebrate the Corvette and educate the public about a very expensive car. Corvettes are beautiful, powerful machines,…
Dental Hygiene
Imagine a world where you get paid to go to the dentist. In this fantasy, a fully-trained hygienist hands you cash if you let her work on your teeth. And all those rules about brushing and flossing? Flush them. “Here, suck on this lollipop for an hour at bedtime,” the…
Cats
When it comes to cats, there are conservatives, moderates, and liberals. Now I don’t mean the actual cats fit in these categories. When you think of the political spectrum, you’re thinking of a republic, and cats prefer a monarchy. This reminds me of the musical Hamilton, which features the British…