

Alice The Corpse Flower
I've spent most of my waking hours today looking at pictures of the Chicago Botanic Garden's amorphophallus titanum. I've also spent most...


Ground Control To Major Tom
Today was a banner day for science. We now have the first biofluorescent reptile ever recorded. We found a new species of snake in...


High By The Beach
Today is my fourth day with a fever. I really wanted to add and they said that the fourth would free me, yeah, right to that statement,...


Silent C
Tucson, as far as my ears can tell, is pronounced "too-son." No voiceless velar stop, just a smooth glide through the word. This desert...


A Series Of Open Letters
I'm pretty sure I've used this free Wix picture of a paper cat before, but I am feverish and critically deprived of coffee, so -- here it...


This Is A Story For A Good Friend
My partner left me one early morning in September. She took a few things with her and she left a few things of hers behind. I found her...


Thoughts At 7:25 PM
I will be married precisely one month from now. September without school is incredibly different. No existentialist dread or desperate...


Dia Daoibh
Hello, everyone. A basic rule of Irish spelling is caol le caol agus leathan le leathan, meaning "slender with slender and broad with...


How To Deal With Your Weird Friend (Part 1)
I am the weird friend and I've written you a manual. "Weird" here is literal, a deviation from the statistical norm, not a negative...


Kimonomania
I've heard that among the Vikings a kitten was given to a newlywed couple, both in honor of the goddess Frigg and for the practical...