God Hates Shrimp

These people freakin RULE!

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Swamped

There is this nothingness I have hanging around sometimes. I felt it the first time I was in an airport after my mother died. I watched all of these people coming and going, meeting loved ones, laughing, crying and looking relieved and connected. The orange and grey swirly  pattern rug caught my attention because I [...]

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Kick the Fish

At long last our beloved fish Kick (yes, my son named him on his 5th birthday….it is just a fun sentence to say, this is Kick the Fish.ha) is going to live. After many tubes and squeeze bottles of various medicines our invertebrate friend has decided to live. He was losing his fins to Fin [...]

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Reasons why I am not a lesbian

This is dedicated to David , a bloggy friend.
1. When I was younger and figuring out who I was there were many girls I thought were pretty great. I was friends with a few and  few I met in clubs and stuff. I made out with a few girls but they were always like, “Wow…you [...]

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Here kitty, kitty, kitty

For our dissecting pleasure we were supplied with a dead cat sealed in a plastic bag full of dead fleas and juicy formaldehyde goodness. Unfortunately, ours was not shaved for ease of access to the flesh and we had dull scalpels and scissors to cut away the muscle and skin exposing the bright blue and [...]

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Factoid courtesy of A & P II

Did you know that if a sour substance is injected into your vein in your arm it will take about 15 seconds to reach the capillary bed in your mouth and for the sour taste to register?
Capillaries make up about 6,000 meters in your body.
The first sound of a heart beat, the LUBB is caused [...]

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Milk and time

Before I became pregnant with my first child, my son, I had fears about breastfeeding. Distinctly I remember a dream I had that echoed my fears of motherhood well before I was even pregnant. My dream took place in a cafe. Bright white sunshine and a cozy booth of some anyplace type diner. I was [...]

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Natural High

Grown ups are grouchy. Children are mostly manic and nuts. I think we are born with natural narcotics in our bodies and so children act like they are high. They laugh at the word poopy, will bonk themselves on the head to make someone else laugh, make up a string of nonsense words and cackle [...]

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The Nicest Thing

I attended a kiddo birthday party last weekend and it was lots of fun. They had beer and wine and yummy food. I met a couple of new friends friends and lugged a beautiful tub-o-breastfed baby around named Vivi. I was chatting with some of the other mothers and happened to be close friends with [...]

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You can have some gals but what you really need are some peeps

Greasy hair, gassy bloated belly, tired-tired-tired brain and body but strangely I am happier than I was yesterday morning. Laughing until corn chowder or sangria comes out of your nose is really good for your soul. Screw that chicken soup crap. I think what you need is to cackle at inappropriate humor in front of [...]

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