An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Untied Shoelaces of the Mind, March 2012
The curved neck and stretched wings of the black Dragon dwarf the figure of the doe-like white Unicorn. They make an unlikely picture behind the glass panel and aluminum frame of my sliding glass kitchen door. As always, quite the sight to see. I ask them in.
At kindergarten orientation, they explained if you didn’t get your kid vaccinated, you had to give them a special form & they sounded way too okay with it. So I called out, “BUT YOU SHOULD GET YOUR KIDS VACCINATED.” And then spent the rest of the event all shaky. Continue reading “Vaccines, Bumper Stickers, Oklahoma”
My big orange Sheltie doesn’t know a lot of commands, but somehow he’s learned one super command — “Pup pup!” As far as I can tell, what “Pup pup!” means to him is, “Anticipate what I want right now and do it!” Bizarrely, it’s effective in a wide range of situations.
And this is the dog who spent a year barking at an empty wall before realizing we’d moved the printer.
There are blankets and pillows all over the floor, and the kids are scooting about on office chairs… I have mixed feelings about having shown the hot lava episode of Community to them.
A Wrinkle In Time (’18) is glorious.
I, Tonya is fascinating, heartbreaking, and dizzying. If you wrote fictional characters like that, no one would believe them.
If you want the tooth fairy to come, don’t lock the door to your room…
Me, picking out ice cream: “Let’s get rocky road.”
4-yr-old: “Broccoli road??!!”
Bizarrely, a moment later he added: “Okay.”
Apparently, in the mind of a ten-year-old, it’s easy to mix up Bernie Sanders and Frank Sinatra.
The ten-year-old in question tried to clarify her position, leading to the revelation that she’d also mixed up Frank Sinatra with Brian Wilson.
Two feet from the stage at a They Might Be Giants concert is probably the most entertaining place I’ve received a story rejection.
Vaccinations are good. People need to get them. If you don’t agree, then you’re an idiot, and I wish you were only going to harm yourself. But vaccines work partly due to herd immunity, so unfortunately idiots without vaccines hurt others too. GET VACCINATED.
When the doorbell rings, three dogs run to the door. Continue reading “Vaccines, Clever Dogs, and Writing”