Surplus Cats

If you’re a Pittsburgh or near-Pittsburgh reader, you should come to our local Drinking Skeptically this month. It’s on the 20th and I promise there won’t be any arrow wielding flying babies. And the onion rings will knock your socks off. Except I hope not really because I can’t deal with feet. I’ve been busy [...]

When I was four, I was given two goldfish on Valentine’s Day; Stripe and Spot. One morning a few weeks later only Spot, twice his usual size, was in the bowl. When I asked Mom what happened she said, “When two fishes love each other very much they stick together and become one.” I’ve been [...]

Whenever I think of Texas I am reminded of that awful overnight layover in Houston in 2000 that ended with me wedged in a crowded terminal with a slow-talking couple and their large brood named Faith, Justice, Liberty, Freedom, and the smallest one saddled with Jubilee. I was reading a news magazine featuring a dinosaur [...]