Wicked, wicked child

We’d been walking a little over an hour with about 2 kilometers to go, when I noticed that the trees – it’s a full canopy – cleared out in about 300, maybe 400 yards. It looked like the light at the end of a long, green tunnel, and I said, “Ah, there’s freedom!”

Big Balls and Braces and Wires, Oh My!

… with the bloody stump of the tooth and the wire and spring attached, it looked like something out of Steven King’s The Dentist.

Road Trips, Mall Rats, Highways, and Evolution

If you’re going to put 500 miles on your car in one week, make them good miles. Look out the window. Roll it down if you can. Skip the Interstate, skip the mall. Turn left next to nowhere, and explore the small spaces.

Doing What to Whom?

You’ve Been Doing What to Whom? Birth Control the Nintendo Way!

Reading to the Lost Boys

On with the silk-lined yellow corduroy smoking jacket and on with the red-and-yellow checked jester hat and off, with my battered old copy of Yertle the Turtle and the Reigning Queen of Pink, to school we went.