And here’s your moment of irrational annoyance, courtesy of someone who didn’t mean ill by it, but aggravated me anyway. I’m always on the hunt for curio cabinets for my museum. Yes, I already have a bunch, but I particularly need ones that have doors …
Read MoreThat Isn’t What You Said It Was, Buddy. Not Even In The Clade.
When one collects fossils like I do, it pays to know what you are looking at. It helps one not get ripped off. Here’s a really good example of this notion. A few years back, I was browsing a certain website for fossils (because that’s …
Read MoreI Am Done. It Is Finished.
The school year…not writing. I’ll be at that until the day I die and get to go and make whatever supreme being out there utterly insane. You’ve been warned, whatever you are! I’m not going to say that I write as a survival mechanism, but …
Read MoreReptile Wrangler: Copperhead Mayhem
Why is it always me that gets to remove rogue critters from a school? Or gets brought animals (salamanders, scorpions, dead black widows, kittens) and asked to care for them? Oh, wait…it’s because everyone who worked with me knows that I did four and a …
Read MoreThe Legendary Puffy Pebble Pie
I like to cook. I’ve liked to cook since I was a kid. I collect recipe books and look forward to using them this summer. I particularly like to make/bake sweets, though increasingly I enjoy making them more than I like eating them. My first …
Read MoreNot Today, Creepy House With Shag Carpet In The Bathroom
Back in college, my folks decided that I couldn’t stay in the dorms anymore. There were a multitude of reasons, not least of which was when the guy next door to use tried to get into our room with a credit card and then peed …
Read MoreThe Beast of Gevaudan
This was one of those historical mysteries that still flummoxes people today. For those not in the know, the Beast was an animal or animals that went on a multi-year rampage in south-central France from 1764-1767. It, or they, racked up quite a body count, …
Read MorePlease Explain How My Generation Survived The Playground
No, seriously…have you seen the playground gear my generation had? And that was at the start of the ‘safety conscious’ era. Most of my classmates and I were still using the old stuff. Like these things: I don’t remember if my friends and I had …
Read MoreFixing Stuff, And Copper Carnival Horse Prizes From The 1950’s
Teachers wear a lot of hats. On any given day, we might be a teacher, surrogate parent, referee, counselor, sounding board, you name it. In my case, I’m also a repairwoman. I used to make jewelry as a side business, and while that hustle went …
Read MoreMelusine-Who Or What Is She?
She features in the title of my series, but who, or what, is Melusine? I’ll concentrate on the literary and historical versions for now. My version will come a bit closer to the release of Amber’s Lure. The most famous story of Melusine was compiled …
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