August 3, 2013
The night was fair, and when the tide receded we lay perfectly still, the fresh wind only sending a lip-lip of ripples against our sides.
‘lip-lip of ripples’ earns Mr. Childers high marks in his The Riddle of the Sands.
August 2, 2013
A recently ingested hallucinogen has Dwight thinking he sees a mound of jewels. There is no mound of jewels.
August 1, 2013

Dwight Frye is reacting to:
a. the mail being delivered.
b. his appointment as chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins.
c. a radio report on aluminum siding.
d. a great mound of jewels.
e. a recently ingested hallucinogen.
July 31, 2013
The diligent foal cross-referenced all of the invitations, putting a neat checkmark in her binder by each name before making the short journey to the post office, where she handed the neat stack of envelopes to the clerk and purchased 2 sheets of ‘forever’ stamps. She then crossed the street to return the pen she had borrowed from the dairy cow who owned the flower shop. After learning that the cow was lunching at Bernie’s Place, the diligent foal hurried to that eatery and successfully returned the pen. She was that diligent, while at the same time embezzling millions from her employer.
July 30, 2013
Hike this path to take a dip in that swimmin’ hole.


July 27, 2013
She lived in the town of Burnet, which wasn’t a very big town, but was growing as fast as it knew how.
Thus in a narrative voice of gentle whimsy is the book, What Kay Did, written.
July 26, 2013
First she sharpened her favorite knife. Then she recited ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’ while preparing lunch.
July 25, 2013

Just moments after this picture was taken, Beatrix Potter:
a. flung the wretched creature out the window.
b. found and adopted an albino otter.
c. prepared lunch.
d. recited ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’.
e. sharpened her favorite knife.
July 24, 2013
rhinoplasty – what you scrape up after a rhino runs full tilt into a shredder.