Chatting with AI can feel it's more than a machine, more than human, but ultimately I believe it's amazing technology, not "magic."

"Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be" - Neruda nails it: what good company a dog is, and how hard it is to let one go!

Your vet will overvaccinate if you don't SAY NO. Know the possible side effects. Our beloved Prince suffered #lepto booster..

Foods we associate with a lost loved one can hold unique power - and one man discovers he can conjure second chances with ghosts.

Good sign: she's speaking to me! Bad sign: what she's saying is worse than the Radio Silence.

Hell = knowing I could be a better person and forever failing to BETTER. "Could be worse" is not a good go-to.

To be reunited in heaven with our lost loved ones - and here on earth with our lost socks! Plus, how to repurpose socks as afghans!

Slipstream, "the new weird," is a fun genre whatever you call it, and this novel is a classic!

Bean counters have their purpose in life, but some take it way too far.

"Hive Gardeners are Gentle Souls. I don't know any gardener here who's an asshole." Well, hello...

Embark on an adventure without leaving your house: pick up a book and GO

Math is god. Math is magic. Felix Flicker is a god, or at least, a physics professor with mind-blowing powers of persuasion.

Oceans are endless with no horizon is in sight and I'd be hungry for land if ever I set sail on the sea...

My love of the woolly mammoth began with Jonnie Boor and continues with The Brothers Cro-Magnon

Nobody "knows" if prayer changes anything, or if there's life after death, but we can hope and believe.

How long oh Lord before I can walk down to the river once more? Today was the day, I thought, but the price was steep.

Rejoice and be glad, for we are alive and hearts are still beating, whatever else is going on today.

If you are inexplicably drawn to something, chances are, you encountered it in infancy but didn't consciously remember

Muzzle, or muffler, or social filter: are we "door mats" if we choose not to speak with tact and restraint?

Hard to get up? Mom had to get up AND get the corn-burning stove going again. We wore mittens in the kitchen....