Or as I call it, The Sad. — I have been writing this post for 3 years. Today is the 3 year anniversary of my grandmother’s death. People lose people every day. I am not special. My grandmother was. She was important to me. I was new to grief, and this is how I experienced it. …

Wherein I, a childless woman, answer actual questions of actual children and possibly traumatize them for life — Q: “Do bees have lips?” A: An excellent question, dear child. Bees do not have lips in the same sense that humans do, rather, they have something called a labial palp that are situated on either side of the proboscis. Here is a picture. I am told children enjoy those:

A series in which I answer the inane questions your children ask, but with a side of existential dread — Q: Why are trees different? A: Trees are different because of the evolution of plants, dating back to the dinosaurs. Trees were actually sporous plants, much like giant ferns, and they were purple as they had not yet developed chlorophyll. Eventually the taller plants began crowding out the big fern plants…