Category: Thoughts and Musings

  • Pufferfish People

    Meet the pufferfish. They seem cute and innocuous, but if they feel threatened or startled, they puff up and get all spikey and toxic. The fish may look adorable, but have enough poison to kill thirty humans. There is no known antidote. The only creature that is immune to them is the shark. Some people are…

  • My Imaginary Adult Friend

    Now in our 50th week of pandemic, I am desperately missing spending time with friends and family. Actually, I am considering of making up some pretend adult friends to hang out with while I grade and clean food bits out of the kitchen sink. A few years ago, a woman had a clever blog about…

  • Check Your Work

    While there is plenty of room for disagreement and preferences, we absolutely cannot continue to be whipsawed by falsehoods.