Not long ago, I was in New Orleans on a business trip. That by itself isn’t so strange. But this trip was unusual in a couple of ways. One of those is that it was a long-ish multi-day trip. Another…
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Category: Poem of the Week
Portuguese Man-of War–it’s not a jellyfish. They’re named after sailing ships. The float at the top of the creatures looks like a sail, and it functions that way too. I say creatures, not creature, because the Portuguese man-of-war is not…
There are a lot of odd little stories about mermaids from all around the world. This week’s poem refers to the story of a mermaid who is killed by boys throwing rocks at her after they damage her tail. The…
The sirens of Greek myth were not fish-woman hybrid but bird-woman. They had wings and chicken or bird feet. Over time they became conflated with the idea of mermaids, but originally they were bird-women. In the Greek story of Odysseus’…
We drove from Ohio to South Dakota for vacation Big Girl had a Real Job this summer, so couldn’t go with us on vacation, which we were sad about. But that’s life–all that growing up stuff has to happen eventually.…