dailyprompt
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A few years ago, I made the resolution that I would never wear anything I could not crash on someone’s floor in. Since then, my wardrobe has morphed into a collection of knits, worn denim, and layerable second hand pieces that I can and have taken naps in. However, I have two favorite pieces. Two…
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My heart lives in the shadow of the Rockies, where I was born, where I spent my childhood catching crayfish in freezing streams and scrambling over boulders that overlooked the great flat plains to the east. There is no place I am more at home than beneath the canopies of lodgepole and ponderosa forests, picking…
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Have you ever heard of James Barry? If not, you’re among the majority, despite his towering impact on the medical establishment as we know it and there is a likely reason for it: James Barry was born Margaret Anne Bulkley in 1789. At 14, he changed his entire identity, began crossdressing, and started medical school. …
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Short answer: yes. Long answer: Instinct is just pattern recognition, taking slivers of information presented to you by a third party and running them through the immense meaty computer of your brain until it prints out something that says “I’ve seen this before”. Before we settled into tidy little farms, we used it to pick…
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When it comes to pets, I am of two minds: chronic dog brain and exotic pet enthusiast. Both have innumerable benefits, but the way you interact with a gecko is different from the way you interact with a dog. An animal that only arose on the pet trade in the last 30 years does not…
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I love accidents. I don’t mean that in the morbid “I love the horror of a bunch of people dying,” I assure you. Instead, I love examining the many clockwork fragments of these events, like the terrible PR approach that blew Threemile Island into a public relations nightmare or the numerous regulatory failures that allowed…
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The first major loss I felt as a child happened in the town of Dinosaur, Colorado in a KOA overlooked by a billboard for McDonald’s that my parents tried desperately to hide from all 3 of their children. I had a small figurine of a coelophysis, a souvenir from a paleontology museum in Fruita. I…
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I never met my great grandmother Velma, she died some years before I was even born. Based on photos and my mom’s recollections of her to me, she was a short woman with a big personality and an uncanny knack for fiber arts. 20 years after her death, my mom drove our minivan three days…
from the pen of icarus blake 