There is something about color that eludes definition. We put words on every color to modify it, attempt to fine-tune the description: Candy Apple Red, Teal Green. We’ve been traveling through several of the national parks in Utah this summer,…
Why do we always look up in the sky, as if it held answers? The impulse is so automatic, I’m sure school kids would look up to see if a multiple choice answer were written by contrail, if there were…
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…
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…
