So this mushroom walks into a bar, sits down on a stool, and orders a martini. The bartender looks at him and says, “Sorry, we don’t serve your kind in here.” The mushroom looks up at the bartender and says, “Why not? I’m a fungi!” That is one of my favorite bad jokes, although I [...]
All I ask is for a simple “please” and “thank you”. That is all I ask. Okay, that isn’t true. I ask for a lot more than that. I ask for turn signals and “pardon me” and eye contact and door-holding (from any gender, for any gender) and all of the tiny ways in which [...]
Initially, this entry was about dreams, but most of my dreams are neither terribly interesting nor helpful. My nightmares are usually both. Granted, I do not look forward to having nightmares, but I often learn something about myself from them. Sometimes I don’t learn that something until I have related the plot and characters to [...]
The awkwardness of typing about handwriting is not lost on me as I write about writing instruments. While I have always been a fan of the written word, my fascination with fountain pens is only a few years old. I do not remember how it began, although certainly it was fueled by my penchant for [...]
This is a strange one to put into words, but at this moment I am enjoying a complex experience of scent. As I ponder this, it occurs to me that I spend quite a bit of time smelling things or remembering moments of my past via scents. The scent experience right now is a combination [...]
