Dec 7, 2024 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
As I was heaving myself over in a tangle of sheets—I have never been able to cope with bedclothes—I caught a whiff of my own warm cheesy smell. Before Anna’s illness I had held my physical self in no more than fond disgust, as most people do—hold theirselves, I mean,...
Nov 30, 2024 | Truth, Truth & Lies |
What questions should I ask an older person to learn more about their life? 60+ open questions to help discover more about the older people in your life. These are particularly useful if you’d like to learn more about their lives. The answers to these questions...
Nov 23, 2024 | Geekery, Lies, Truth & Lies |
Today is his four hundredth and thirty-fourth day in space, a tally arrived at over three different missions. He keeps close count. Of this mission it’s day eighty-eight. In a single nine-month mission there are in total roughly five hundred and forty hours of morning...
Nov 16, 2024 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
Sixteen years like living with a God damned invalid sixteen years every time you come in sitting there waiting just like you left him wave his stick at you, plump up his pillow cut a paragraph add a sentence hold his God damned hand little warm milk add a comma slip...
Nov 9, 2024 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
Claire was waiting by the car, shoulders hunched, using the sleeves of her coat for a muff. ‘You should have asked me for the key,’ I said. ‘Did you think I wouldn’t give it to you?’ On the way home she insisted on taking the wheel, despite my vigorous resistance. It...
Nov 2, 2024 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
If you want to make something smarter, teach it to play. No one denied the play of mammals. A giant oceanic manta ray brain was the largest and heaviest of any animal that breathed water. The telencephalon and cerebellum – parts of the brain devoted in mammals...