Why do the good die young? To get to the other side!

It’s often been noted that great artists and poets and scientists and that ‘creative’ lot seem to do their best work early in life.  (When John Keats was my age, for example, he’d been dead for 14 years.)  This was hammered home to me this morning as I cooked bacon and eggs for SOBUMD, the […]

Harry Potter and the Reproductive Organs

So there I was, minding my own business, when Number-One Son ordered me to listen to him read from the book that SOBUMD and I got him when we were in NYC this weekend. First thing to note is that when I walk downstairs and find him watching TV, he’s usually watching the Discovery Health […]