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  • How did I get here?

    How did I get here?

    Did you ever stop to think, “How did I get here?”

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  • Who Ate the First Oyster?

    Who Ate the First Oyster?

    Am I the only one who thinks, “Who figured this out?” Like, how did someone reach into a river, pull out a soft rock and think, “I’ll be…

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  • An Octopus’s Garden of Books and Possibilities

    An Octopus’s Garden of Books and Possibilities

    Have you read the book Remarkably Bright Creatures? The narrator is an Octopus. Not normally the kind of book you’d find on my reading list, but it just…

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  • What a waste.

    What a waste.

    Yesterday I received a massive catalog in the mail at the house. The thing is, I have been receiving these for two decades. Once, 20 years ago, my…

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  • Using the Toilet

    When I was young, my mother considered using a replaced toilet as a planter in the front yard. She thought it would be funny. Then again, we both…

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  • Rats Dance

    Rats Dance

    We have a love/hate relationship with rats. Mostly we hate them, but then again, sometimes, they are our pets. They have enough systems reflective of our own that…

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  • Untitled post 580

    This delightful little story highlights human connection in ways we seem to have largely misplaced. Yes, there are those wonderful neighborhood “libraries” constructed or from repurposed newspaper vending…

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