the jellies

A couple days ago, while we were driving, my daughter asked me out of the blue: “What’s that jellyfish?” Since driving with my daughter is a non-stop sensory overload and string of questions, I figured it was on a sign or a bumper sticker or a cloud or something, and, not seeing a jellyfish, ignored […]

bad week to quit sniffing glue

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches […]