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.…
This week’s poem is a haiku. It’s an autumn haiku, relating the movement of the season as indicated by autumn leaves changing colors. The thing about the haiku form is that it has many traditional expectations, at least if it…
Hedgehogs are one of those periodically cool pets Which is odd, right? Because they don’t seem like great pets to me. At the same time, I’m a sucker for a stuffed hedgehog, and I am still trying to figure out…
You know winter is coming when you get to see the opening of the college ice hockey season. We caught a game at the Icebreaker Hockey Tournament in Toledo this weekend, the championship face-off between the Rochester Institute of Technology…
