This started with my nose. A year ago, I visited an ear-nose-and-throat doctor because my tonsil looked weird. Wait. I just realized the story started with my tonsil, but my nose took credit. Let’s start over. Here’s the conversation between the doctor and me. Doctor: Your tonsil is fine. You…
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Service Animals
A while back I told you about the lizard among the lettuces. I was in the grocery store, and a lizard rested on his owner’s chest as she selected romaine. I think he was a bearded dragon, a child-friendly lizard if you’re looking for a pet. A few months ago,…
Stinkbug
I was trying to prevent a death. Or at least an odor. Our minivan was truckin’ up Interstate 26 as we drove home from a Christmas celebration. Crawling up the side of my husband’s seat was a stink bug. He was driving. The husband – not the stink bug. At…
Wooly Mammoth
Did you see the article about the mammoth meatball? I don’t mean it was huge, though it was — about the size of a soccer ball. It was made of mammoth meat. By mammoth I mean a wooly mammoth. If you’re a wooly mammoth, your mama was an elephant, and…
Sheep
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…